Washing grates, baking trays, glass – which can be more tedious. One of the least favorite household chores.
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Somewhere on this list should be an oven wash. In culinary programs, ovens look like they never cooked in them at all: shiny glossy surfaces, perfectly transparent glass in the door. But in fact, after the very first pizza or meat the captain’s way, the oven is smeared with fat. The next time it burns, and with each use of the “insides” of the stove take on an increasingly sad look.
Getting bored, like many of us, spending hours of her life cleaning the grates, glass and oven walls, huddled on the floor, the Australian woman decided to try an unusual life hack, inspired by the decorator. The woman said that often she had to wash brushes, bowls, and other things necessary for work in the sink. And then – to wash the sink itself, because you just can’t wash off the paint. She found a way: she lined the walls of a metal sink with aluminum foil, threw in a few dishwasher tablets, filled it with hot water and left it for two hours. Then she simply pulled out the foil, rubbed the sink with a sponge – and everything shone without much effort.
The smart Australian woman pulled the grates out of the oven, unscrewed the glasses, and indeed all the parts that could be unscrewed, wrapped them in foil, put them in the bathtub, poured hot water over them, put a dishwasher tablet and left them for two hours. Then she took off the foil, rinsed the “spare parts” – and was amazed at what she saw. The grates were shining, the glass was perfectly transparent, although she could not dare to clean the oven for quite a long time, quite a lot of burnt fat had accumulated on it.
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Other housewives followed in the footsteps of the Australian. Empirically, it turned out that instead of tablets for the dishwasher, you can pour washing powder, ordinary baking soda, grill cleaner into the bathtub – everything works.
Unfortunately, the walls of the oven cannot be removed. Therefore, you will have to clean them with your hands. To minimize efforts, it is advised to make a paste from ordinary soda – dilute it with water so that you get a thick pasty mixture. It must be applied to all internal surfaces of the oven, excluding heating elements, and left overnight. In the morning we put on gloves, take a rag soaked in vinegar solution, and wipe the inside of the oven.
Another way: squeeze the juice of several lemons into a heat-resistant mold, add water so that it fills the mold about half, throw in the leftover lemons and turn on the oven for a maximum of half an hour. Then let it cool and wipe the inside with the rest of the lemon water.