Clean your oven with soft soap in 4 easy steps. Here’s how!
Sara Idenfors
In this blog, we explain how to clean your oven in a few simple steps, completely without harsh chemicals.
1. Start by brushing all the loose “debris” out of the oven with a brush. Remove the rack, but do not remove parts that are not meant to be removed. If the instruction manual does not say that the parts can be removed for cleaning, do not try to remove them; instead, leave them in place and clean around them.
This is what you need:
When it comes to soap, it is much easier to clean the oven with a fatty soap. Fat dissolves fat—the like-dissolves-like principle. Dirt in the oven is often grease. What isn't grease is food residue (from plants or animals). A rule of thumb for natural cleaning is to use something alkaline to remove residue from plants or animals. Västerbottenssåpa is both fatty and alkaline.
Another advantage of solid soap is that it is so firm and thick that you can make a thick foam from it without it running down the oven's inner walls and ceiling.
2. Work the soap in with a little water over all the oven's surfaces. Some ovens have parts that can be removed and cleaned separately.
3. Turn the oven on at 150–180 degrees for about 20 minutes. For extra effect, place a bowl of water inside. It's the steam we're after! Hot water and soap work well together.
4. Be careful when you start wiping the oven clean! Let the water cool before you begin. Another option is to leave the oven with the soap in it overnight and continue the next day.
Use the ecofiber cloth when wiping the oven clean, and you will see that the dirt now comes off much more easily. Wipe clean with a damp cloth.
If the rack is badly burnt, it may need to be covered with soap and water and left like that overnight before being wiped with an ecofiber cloth and water.
This is what it looks like when it's finished!