bethk wrote:Well, for crying out loud, Norm......would you please bake some chicken thighs on a sheet pan at 450 and then try the steam clean feature? I need someone to do research for me!
LOL
My LG gas range, which you all know we fell in love with, has a feature called Easy Clean. The stove came with a plastic bottle that you fill up to a certain line with water, spray it inside the oven and then pour the rest of the water in a small reservoir in the bottom of the oven. The lady who cleans for me used it about 3 months ago for the first time. She told me she thought it would be good if you used that feature often but that I'd waited more than a year to ask her to clean it so she still had to scrub some of the places. (I don't know where she scrubbed as Brian and I only saw a couple of small little black spots on the bottom.) She didn't seem impressed with its ability but then I think she was politely telling me I should have tried it out sooner. I didn't think the oven was very dirty but asked her to clean it just to keep it looking good.
This is the spiel that LG says about Easy Clean: "LG EasyClean
delivers the fastest oven-cleaning feature yet. In 10 quick minutes your oven can be sparkling clean, without strong chemical fumes or high heat. Simply spray the oven interior with water, press EasyClean
and then in 10 minutes, quickly wipe away any leftover grime."
It's a self-cleaning oven but as I've said many times before, I've read many horror stories about people using that feature on their stove such as melting part of their adjacent cabinets and other things near the stove due to the ridiculously high temperature. I've also read some models do not let you turn off the self-cleaning feature once you start it, something that would scare me. So I know I'll never use the self-cleaning feature. I'd rather use Krud Kutter to clean the stove more often (well, get Lynn to do that as I can't get down there with my back anymore). I take care not to bake anything that could drip or boil over or whatever without another pan under it. The dirt mine had on it was primarily splatters on the glass pane in the front and a couple of little spots on the bottom, which I guess were from using the broiler or something that the convection fan blew from a pan. Lynn cleaned the oven for me and it still looks brand new inside -- it's a huge 6.3 cubic foot oven that has a bright blue interior and it still looks shiny as this photo. But then again, it's only been about 3 months since Lynn cleaned it. I told her to go ahead and try the feature again soon if she thinks it needs it and to just let me know she cleaned it so I can pay her extra.
I'd planned on getting one of those "sheets" of some sort that people put in the bottom of their oven to keep it clean but after reading the booklet that came with my oven, it said NOT to put anything on the bottom of the oven so I didn't. We're big believers in "the worst possible thing happening" to us so we both agreed we wouldn't get one!!!