My easy method means you only need to clean your oven once a year – and it gets it sparkling
HOMEOWNERS, if you hate cleaning your oven, you aren’t alone.
Food blogger Ashley McCrary makes good use of her oven, but only cleans it once a year – and her genius method will leave the whole thing sparkling.
In a video tutorial, McCrary (@healthylittlepeach) opened up about her distaste for the chore.
“I’m not gonna lie to y’all. I’m definitely the type of gal who cleans her oven once a year,” she admitted.
Opening her oven door, she showed a year’s worth of baked-on grease and grime.
When she does clean her oven, McCrary said, she has to make sure it counts.
First, in a mixing bowl, she combined equal parts of Dawn dish detergent, baking soda, and vinegar.
“Mix it together and it makes a foamy white paste,” she instructed.
While the paste foamed up, she removed the oven racks and added them to a bathtub full of hot water.
McCrary mixed in another scoop of Dawn and an equal amount of baking soda.
She left the oven racks to soak while she cleaned the interior of her oven.
Next, McCrary said, it was time to apply her cleaning solution.
“I take that foamy paste, add it all over my oven, and let it sit for two hours,” she explained. “Then I scrub the mess out of it, y’all.”
She warned viewers that the next step required elbow grease.
“This is the hard part – you gotta scrub it,” she said. McCrary keeps a bottle of water handy to spritz and soften any “crusty” sections.
Once she’d scrubbed the whole oven, McCrary was ready to remove all the broken-down mess.
This step doesn’t require as much work, but it does take a lot of material resources.
“I take a whole roll of paper towels and wipe it all down,” she confessed.
After rinsing and drying the racks, McCrary returned them to the oven.
As a finishing touch, McCrary gave the exterior of her oven a wipedown.
“Oh my gosh! Who am I?” she asked, showing off the sparkling oven that resulted from her efforts.
“I should be a Real Housewife,” McCrary said proudly. “Look at that clean oven!”
