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Who do we clean ovens for?

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We clean ovens for:

•     Working people.
•     People with no time to clean.
•     The elderly.
•     The disabled.
•     Pregnant women - that is our process is completely safe.
•     People with allergies.
•     Contract cleaning companies
•     Schools.
•     Landlords.
•     Estate agents, letting agents.
•     Anyone who is frustrated by the results they are left with after their own attempts.

Cleaning a Lacanche Range Cooker

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I cleaned two Lacanche Range cookers in the same house last week. Lacanche's are semi professional ranges and are more suited to some one who is very keen on cooking and the owner of these was using them to make chilli chutney which they were putting into jars and selling. Usually Lacanche cookers are quite difficult to clean as they usually have stainless steel plates on the inside of the doors and the roofs of the ovens. To get these clean and sparkling means a lot of effort. Luckily these two Lacanches had enamel inside doors and oven roofs so making them a lot easier to clean and they came up sparkling.

As a bonus the owner showed me his chili pepper bushes, which he had in his conservatory and large greenhouse, ranging from the mildest chillis to the hottest,  gave me a quick overview of the different types and how to grow them (apparently they are difficult to propogate - you need a heater - and they grow into small bushes) and then gave me some of his chillis. So I have been adding them to several dishes at home and they have really added a kick to our meals. Next year I'm going to be growing some chillis in my greenhouse alongside my tomatoes :-)

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Happy Easter from OvenGleam

We would like to wish you a Happy Easter from all of us at OvenGleam. After your weekend holiday please look at getting your oven and/or barbecue cleaned professionally to ensure that it is sparkling clean for the next time that you use it. Call us in and save yourself time, energy and the inconvenience of having to do it yourself.

How to Clean An Oven

There are several ways to clean your oven depending on the amount of built up grease and burnt on carbon. You may have also a build up of grease on the window of your oven which you may find difficult to remove yourself. Also racks and trays can be difficult to clean if they are black.

Method 1: General Maintenance Cleaning of Oven

Say you have just had your oven professionally cleaned by an oven cleaning company such as ourselves, OvenGleam, or your oven is new and you want to keep it clean.  I would suggest using a microfibre cloth and Fairy Washing Up Solution - or any washing up liquid, but Fairy Washing Up Liquid tends to be best - to wipe out the inside of the oven on a regular basis (the cloth needs to be wet). Washing up solution works very well on pans and racks too; put them in a hot washing up water solution (again Fairy is best) and you leave them in for 30 minutes and then use a steel scourer to remove the grease, and then dry with a tea towel. The only problem you may have will be getting the racks or pans into your sink so you could buy oven rack soaking tray from Lakeland to get around this problem.

Method 2: Attempting a Deep Clean Yourself using a Shop bought Caustic Cleaner

Buy a caustic oven cleaning product in the shop; examples are: Oven Pride Oven Cleaner (you find the review of the video interesting:  TV's Worst Adverts) , Mr Muscle Oven Cleaner, Oven Mate Oven Cleaner from Lakeland. PLEASE follow the instructions and in addition I would really recommend that you wear some eye protection which is advised on the products in small writing but not generally in the instructions but in the Health and Safety Guide. The Homepride video suggest that it is so easy to use but you need to read every word on the bottle and box carefully. The best way to clean your racks yourself is as in Method 1 above. If you use the Homepride product and the bag to clean your racks and there is a hole in your bag you can do a lot of damage to yourself and kitchen. Make sure your pets are not in the same room and also if you are pregnant I would think about another method to get your oven cleaned see Method 3 and 4. If you get any of the cleaning product on yourself put lots of water on it immediately. Also some of the products suggest that you can leave the cleaning product in the oven overnight. I would suggest you don't do this as this will damage the enamel of the oven.  In all the product I like the best out of these is the lakeland one because it is applied with a brush which is in the box.

Method 3: Use a non caustic cleaner

An example of this is Astonish Oven Cleaner which is the product I would recommend as its the one we use ourselves! Follow the instructions. You may have problems with it though if the grease is very thick in your oven - there is a knack to it all! Just call us out as per Method 4

Method 4: Book An Oven Cleaning Professional To Do it For You

Give us a ring now 0800 45 82 357 and book your oven into be cleaned! We don't use caustic in the home, and we clean up after ourselves and leave your oven looking like new all sparkling and gleaming.

Mothering Sunday - An Oven Clean as a gift

After a very busy week last week we seem to be very busy again today with lots of phone calls. With Mothering Sunday approaching we would recommend getting your oven booked in sooner rather than later as if last year was anything to go by an oven clean will be THE gift in demand. We don't only clean it we gleam it!and with our eco cleaning system what a great gift for Mothering Sunday.

Eco Oven Cleaning

We are currently trailing a system to make our cleaning process totally 100% green; I am doing this is my van. This means I am using a system that it is 100% caustic free. Our current process is totally caustic free within the home but I am trialling a new dipping solution which is non caustic. This is working well and when I have trailed it for a few more weeks we will look at implementing it in all of our vans.