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Should I put foil on the bottom of my oven?

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When I first cleaning some ovens I often notice that the customer has lined either the grill pan or the bottom of the oven with aluminium foil. Often this is coated in grease and smells revolting!

People thing that this is a good way to stop the spills, well it may do but it also can cause damage to the enamel of the grill pan and more seriously the bottom of the oven. The reason for this is that the foil reflects the heat back onto the base of the oven and the heat intensifies and gets to a really high temperature and hence causes the damage.

I would recommend an oven liner which is a purpose designed and made from PTFE with a teflon coating from a kitchen supply company such as lakeland. This will help protect the bottom of the oven from drips and help you to keep the oven clean.

 

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Setting Timer on Bosch Cooker

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I've had a problem with a Bosch Cooker two days in a row so I thought I do a post on it. The problem has been setting the clock after switching the oven back on after switching it off. As the bulb had broken off in the main oven for safety's sake I switched the oven off. When I have switched back on I have been faced with just the flashing numbers usually, on most ovens, to reset it's been a case of just pressing the hand button. However in this case I tried every configuration of button pressing I could think of and still the main oven didn't switch on. Somehow yesterday I managed to get the oven to switch on, I must have stumbled on the solution. Today I phoned my wife in the office and she searched on the internet and found out how to do it.

So if you are having the same problem here is the solution. The timer knobs will have  this configuration: an alarm button then two arrows, and a hand (manual) button, and then a knob to turn. Press both of the arrow buttons at the same time and then turn the knob to set the time, the oven will now operate. That's it nice and straight forward when you know how!

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7 Reasons To Book Your Oven Clean Today

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7 Great Reasons To Book your Oven or AGA Cooker Clean Today

1. Our cleaning operatives are fully trained and fully insured — you're in the hands of experts. We're friendly and professional.
2. We are an independently owned oven cleaning company — so we take great pride in every single oven that we clean.
3. We guarantee your satisfaction — if you're not happy for any reason, just let us know, and we'll come back and happily clean it again for free, no questions, no hard feelings.
4. No dangerous chemicals — we use environmentally friendly and non-toxic cleaning products in your home making it safe for allergy sufferers, children and pregnant women.
5. Trusted by the Property Professionals — we are regularly recommended for property letting inspections or sales.
6. Convenience — your time, your place — we come to you at a time that suits you.
7. Great value — Call us today for a price. You'll quickly realise our service is great value for money.

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Oven Cleaning Dip Tank

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All our vans are fitted with oven cleaning dip tank as part of the oven cleaning system that we use. These are special tanks that use electricity to heat up the solution in them. They are securely bolted to the chassis of the van so they don't present a danger to the oven cleaning operative.

This compares to most other oven cleaning companies' systems where they use stainless steel trays that are heated up using a Calor gas burner. The tank isn't secured to the van, as it needs to be taken out of the van to heat up.The calor gas container and pipe work has to be kept in a serviceable condition; I have heard of an oven cleaning van catching on fire because of a faulty value.

Our system is the best there is and it is safe, fast and effective.

How to Remove Bulb Covers in A Smeg A1 Cooker

I thought I'd tell you how we manage to get the tight difficult bulb covers off. For example on the Smeg A1 Range we would use either one of our microcloths which are pretty effective or else we also use some material that we got from Ikea that is supposed to be 'anti mat slip' material but it's great for getting a firm grip on the covers. If the bulb cover happens to be broken then we would use pliers to remove the glass bits.

Sometimes the bulb itself is difficut to remove and again we would use the microcloth or the anti slip material. If the bulb is broken we would switch the power off to the cooker and then remove the bulb with pliers.

SMEG Oven Door Seal Broken

All SMEG ovens have door seals that are tricky to remove as they tend to be quite thin and they also will stick to the oven sides when grease, or burnt on has built up. So when we remove them to clean the oven we have to be particularly careful. The seals are also unusual in that they often have a central clip in the centre of the seal too. So they can be broken very easily if not taken off correctly. The cost to replace the seal is in the region of £30; so not a cheap replacement for something that looks so fragile!

So my procedure for removing a Smeg Seal:

1. Remove all the corner clips first.

2. Then remove the central clip.

3. If the seal has lots of burnt on carbon on it I would suggest leaving the seal in place and calling out an oven cleaning company to do the job for you. I recommend our oven cleaning company of course!

If the seal has broken on the bottom I would suggest rather than replacing the seal to just cut the bottom length off so the seal will now look like a goal post. This particularly the case on a SMEG A1 90cm single oven range as the replacements are now goal post shape anyway.

How to Clean An Oven

People often ask me "How Do I keep my Oven Clean after you have gone?"

Once we have removed all the thick grease  and burnt on carbon it's just a case of keeping on top of things. Here are my 5 tips for keeping your oven clean once it has been cleaned professionally:

1. You need to keep on top of the grease in the oven so do this you need to make sure you clean it regularly. Use a micro fibre cloth such as the ones at Nigel's Eco Store. You can use it just wet or if you want to add some cleaning product, some soapy water will do fine - especially washing up liquid.

2. Also keep on top of pans that go into the oven. If these are greasy then they can add to the burnt on carbon in the oven.

3. Put an oven liner onto the bottom of the oven. Either use a standard size oven liner or by sheets of Bake-O-Glidewhich can be cut to size. Don't use aluminium foil as it will damage the enamel of your oven.

4. The racks of your oven can be cleaned by soaking them in normal washing up water, or if you can fit them in your dish washer that will do fine too. If you have an extractor that has aluminium grills they can be put into the dishwasher too.

5. Or if this is just too difficult for you - book us in regularly to do your oven cleaning for you.

 

 

Our Eco Oven Cleaning Cloths

We have been getting lots of interest in our Eco Oven Cleaning Cloths. Many of our clients have become interested in our cloths as they have noticed us using them over the past year and want to know how they produce such amazing results. I have to admit the amazing results can only be partially attributed to these super cloths. The rest is from the skill and application of our specially designed oven cleaning process.

Eco-Cloth

The General Purpose Cleaning Cloth

Use for polishing, dusting, cleaning, wiping up, wiping down. No need for harsh chemicals, brilliant cleaning results with no chemical detergents, just water and a cloth?

 

Millions of tiny microfibres penetrate every nook and cranny, picking up and absorbing dirt with nothing more than the aid of a little water.  Use wet or dry for gleaming bathrooms, kitchens and wonderfully clear windows. For more stubborn areas use a small amount of your usual cleaning product with the Eco-cloth and see the difference.  Can be washed repeatedly and still retain its excellent cleaning properties.  The Eco-cloth will pay for itself many times over.

Used daily by a number of leading appliance manufacturers, hotel chains and celebrity chefs as well as OvenGleam, your local domestic Oven Cleaning company.  OvenGleam can be contacted on 0800 45 82 357 or visit the website at www.ovengleam.co.uk