I just moved to a new apartment and tried to use the oven and it was smoking really bad. I was just trying to pre-heat it and my kitchen filled with smoke! The oven is really dirty and needs to be cleaned, but it's a self cleaning oven with a broken self cleaning feature. I was told never to manually clean a self cleaning oven. I have two little kids and need an oven!!! What should I do???
2007-12-13 12:55:17 · 9 answers · asked by qwerty8404 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
You are going to have to clean it manually. Get some Easy-Off oven cleaner. Spray, let is soak over night, wipe it out & on the tough areas take a Brillo pad to it.:)
2007-12-13 13:00:23 · answer #1 · answered by Backwoods Barbie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "self-cleaning" oven is really kind of a misnomer. It actually has a surface on it that, when the baked on food or whatever is superheated, it turns to an ash that will not stick to the inner surface. When the oven cools after the self-cleaning cycle, you just wipe away the residual ash.
The reason they say not to manually clean a self-cleaning oven is that the chemicals in oven cleaner or an abrasive pad you might use to clean the oven will damage or remove the non-stick surface. If this happens, the self-cleaning surface of the oven won't work correctly.
If the self-clean function of your oven doesn't work anyway, go ahead and use an over cleaner as though it weren't self-cleaning.
2007-12-13 13:06:43 · answer #2 · answered by Paul in San Diego 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My suggestion is that you talk to your landlord and have the stove repaired or replaced. Why wasn't this done before you moved in?
Using caustic or abrasive cleaners on self-cleaning ovens will damage the inside of the oven. That's why I would insist that the landlord take responsibility for this.
2007-12-13 13:14:25 · answer #3 · answered by Nancy G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Demand that the landlord clean it or replace it with a different oven. That should have been done before you moved in.
2007-12-13 13:10:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ours smoked for months and had a really bad smell then after lots of uses it just went away. it can also be caused by food landing on the elements and burning and creating a stink. clean it but ours smoke went AWAY itself
2007-12-13 14:42:59 · answer #5 · answered by allaboutme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It commonly is whatever that has dropped or dripped onto the burner. Run the cleansing cycle for a couple hours at the same time you might be at house to verify on it every once in a at the same time. It is going to on the whole just burn off.
2016-08-06 11:28:19 · answer #6 · answered by Erika 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throw out.
2007-12-13 13:30:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
CALL MAINTENANCE IT SHOULD OF BEEN CLEANED BEFORE YOU MOVED IN.
2007-12-13 13:34:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
call the landlord
2007-12-13 13:15:46 · answer #9 · answered by Lauren L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋