How To Clean Your Oven the Easy Eco-way

Oven cleaning isn’t exactly my hobby and I’m guessing it isn’t yours either.

But, with the weather being what it is, my longing for spring may be best put to cleaning. Calling it Spring Cleaning does make it sound a bit better.
I think.
(And doing it now might save me from having it to do when the sun really does come out.)

And …

I think I found the best and easiest possible way of doing an all natural, zero waste kind of job here

💚Put half a lemon (or lime) in a bowl.
(It doesn’t have to be a perfectly fresh one, so if you’d happen upon some that would otherwise be thrown away; seize your chance for not wasting it!)
💚Put the bowl in your oven and fill with boiling water.
💚Leave it behind a closed door for about half an hour.
(If the sun does come out meanwhile, there is no reason not to leave it a bit longer and enjoy some time outside yourself.)
💚Rub the oven with the lemon, squeezing out it’s juice as you go and leave for another half hour.
💚Give it a scrub with a safix scrub pad. (A lovely coconut thing that won’t scratch, last quite a while and is compostable at the end of it’s life. In case you were wondering.)

If you are a regular oven cleaner, this just might be enough.

If you are a bit like me –and of course you had planned to clean the oven right after the summer holidays, but then this thing came up and then that happened and how is it February already anyway?– you may want to add a bit of bicarb. And you may need to put in a bit of elbow grease.
I’m not in the miracle selling business; if you let things get proper dirty, you will have to do some proper scrubbing. But at least a proper scourer will hold up to that.

💚Rinse oven and Safix scrubber, wipe down the oven, leave scrourer to dry, and both will look lovely and as good as new.

And indeed it brings some sort of spring-fresh kind of feeling. To me it did, anyway.

Though it works any time of year.