"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>> Ophelia wrote:
>> > Ok now please explain the 'NaOH oven cleaner method'!
>>
>> Typically, by the use of this product:
>>
>> <http://www.easyoff.us/ovencleanersolutionsfinder_heavydutyovencleaner.ph p>
>>
>> Or one of its clones.
>>
>> The active ingredient is sodium hydroxide.
>
> Interesting too. Cleaning an oven goes last on any list of chores to do
> here. My oven is way overdue...like 15 years ago was it's last cleaning.
> And back then I had put it off forever.
>
> Finally, I did decide to clean it. Bought and used "Easy Off" and the
> name is very approptiate. Once I did whatever and sprayed it on the
> oven, it just wiped right off with a cloth (no scrubbing). I cleaned it
> in no time and then wondered why I had waited so long.
>
> Now it's time to buy easy-off again.

I once lived in a place with a really old gas stove. Super for cooking rice
or keeping things warm as you could get a really low flame.

My roommates and I thought the insides of the two ovens were a dull black as
that is what they were when we moved in. Then one day, the one who was a
lousy cook had a horrible accident in the oven. She threw salt on it which
will help for something small. The salt sort of absorbs the liquid and once
cooled, you can usually just carefully lift off the burned on mess. But in
this case, she got a lot more than she thought she would.

That's when we knew we had to clean the ovens. Actually took quite a couple
of days and many cans of oven cleaner. It was that bad. Turned out that the
inside was a dark blue with white specks.