i'd love for someone to make a "disposable" oven. when it get dirty just throw it out and replace it.

In August Bea's dad was all like "let me clean this oven" and did some sort of terrible old school chemistry shit in my only giant pot (sure I only use it twice or so a year, but it is also where my

hahaha perfect

Chips and candy I don't want to share hide the rest of the time) and put that in the oven for an hour.

Suffice it to say... The pot is totally and incredibly ruined and the oven did not "magically" become clean.

damn. Someone owes you a pot

He also wouldn't let me throw out the pot because "I can clean this! Let's go buy acid"

omg

He's gone back home now. I put the pot in the trash as soon as he left.

"because the first experiment went so well"

And I have still not tried to really clean the oven myself

I am SURE these things work for him NOT in my presence. Mmmmhmm

i've actually never cleaned an oven but i hear its terrible and noxious if i ever got in a place where i would be responsible for that i would probably just never use the oven.

I also have to say... I'm not terribly interested in ever buying acid to clean something ever again. Call me a wasteful dickwad but I'm quite comfortable just throwing that out too to buy anew.

I used to clean ours when I was a kid, I don't remember it being terribly noxious - but then again maybe the fumes are why I can't remember things.

They do make self-cleaning ovens. Essentially, it's just a super high heat cycle that burns everything off.

yeah, mine does that in theory, but it malfunctioned the second time I used it. I had it repaired. It malfunctioned again, repaired. Malfunctioned, gave up. The repair

guys both said they spend a lot of time fixing those.

plus, you still have to stick your head in and wipe all the dust/gunk out, and it didn't really take everything off.

better than fumes though. I wish it worked

Apatia: the fumes don't actually smell that bad. I'm just aware that it's lye and assorted other horrible things and worried about breathing them

I feel like ever since I used a sander that malfunctioned and covered my life and soul with wall powder... Well I have a devil may care attitude about oven fumes.

So my stepdad would place tinfoil in the oven, lining the bottom, and just throw it out periodically. It doesn't fix the sides but it's helpful.

yeah, my mom did that too. I should. But the sides and the window were somehow destroyed. It's like we just slop the food in there

fling it into a pan on the rack from across the room. The back was entirely coated with stuff

my old stove was fucking expensive son of a whore, and the first time I EVER used the self clean, it actual self destructed. Off warranty of course. You know, what do we expect, it is 600 fucking degrees.

most of the mess is from grease on pizzas and other food that curculates around in there then deposits on the sides and burns on continuously.. plus if you EVER did baked chicken or anything not covered.

Plus I havent cleaned mine in like a couple years.

I occasionally scrape the burned shit off and vaccuum it out.

I really should clean it I suppose.