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Skip the toxic oven cleaners! In this video, you'll learn a fast, simple, and effective way to clean your oven using everyday household ingredients—no harsh chemicals, no overpowering fumes, and no expensive products.
Whether your oven has baked-on grease, burnt food, or stubborn stains, these natural cleaning methods can help restore it to a sparkling clean finish while being safer for your home.
In this video, you'll discover:
The best natural ingredients for cleaning an oven
How to remove baked-on grease without harsh chemicals
A quick step-by-step oven cleaning method
Common mistakes that make oven cleaning harder
Easy tips to keep your oven cleaner for longer
✨ A cleaner oven not only looks better—it can also reduce smoke, odors, and make cooking more enjoyable.
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Skip the toxic oven cleaners! In this video, you'll learn a fast, simple, and effective way to clean your oven using everyday household ingredients—no harsh chemicals, no overpowering fumes, and no expensive products.
Whether your oven has baked-on grease, burnt food, or stubborn stains, these natural cleaning methods can help restore it to a sparkling clean finish while being safer for your home.
In this video, you'll discover:
The best natural ingredients for cleaning an oven
How to remove baked-on grease without harsh chemicals
A quick step-by-step oven cleaning method
Common mistakes that make oven cleaning harder
Easy tips to keep your oven cleaner for longer
✨ A cleaner oven not only looks better—it can also reduce smoke, odors, and make cooking more enjoyable.
đź’¬ Have a favorite natural cleaning trick? Share it in the comments!
đź‘Ť If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to Like, Subscribe, and turn on notifications for more natural cleaning tips, home hacks, and practical household advice.
#OvenCleaning #NaturalCleaning #CleaningTips #HomeHacks #BakingSoda #EcoFriendly #CleanHome
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00:00Open your oven door and look at the bottom of it and at the glass and you will see the
00:05brown and the black baked on there.
00:07The spills and the spatters of a hundred suppers cooked hard onto the floor and the walls and the door
00:15until it is part of the oven now.
00:17And you have put off cleaning it because the only ways you knew were the harsh chemical spray that fills
00:24the whole house with fumes and warns you off your own kitchen for hours.
00:28Or that self-cleaning cycle that heats the oven near red hot and smokes and worries you half to death
00:37that it will catch.
00:38So the oven just stays dirty.
00:41But there is an older, gentler way and it costs pennies and uses nothing harsher than what is in your
00:48baking cupboard.
00:49And it does the work while you sleep so you barely scrub at all.
00:54Let me show you.
00:55The whole of it is three plain things you already have.
01:00Baking soda, water and white vinegar.
01:04That is all.
01:05No fumes, no harsh chemicals baked into the surface where your food will cook tomorrow.
01:11Nothing you would not want near your family.
01:14Just a paste of soda and water that lifts the baked on grease overnight.
01:20And a wipe of vinegar to polish off the last film.
01:24And here is why it works plainly.
01:27Baked on oven grime is grease cooked hard.
01:31And baking soda is a gentle grease cutter and a soft scour both.
01:36So given time, a whole night of it, the soda paste loosens that cooked grease right off the surface.
01:44So it wipes away in the morning with hardly any scrubbing.
01:49The night does the work that your arm would otherwise have to.
01:53A quick word before we go further.
01:56My name is Esther Yoder.
01:58And the old methods my husband and I use.
02:01The kind I am sharing today.
02:03And many more like it.
02:05Too much of it for any single video.
02:08I put the whole of it together in a book at EliasYoda.com.
02:13The book is the long version.
02:16Now this is the gentle way my mother kept an oven near enough and her mother before her.
02:23For soda and vinegar are old as any kitchen.
02:27And they cleaned with what they had on the shelf and never a thought of a fuming bottle.
02:32There is wisdom in that beyond the saving of money.
02:36You cook your family's food in that oven.
02:38And whatever you clean it with, a trace of it stays on the surface and neats the heat the next
02:45time you bake.
02:46And I would far rather that trace be plain baking soda than a harsh chemical I cannot pronounce.
02:54The gentle way is not only cheaper.
02:56It is cleaner in the truest sense for the food that comes after.
03:02Before you begin, the one thing that matters most for safety.
03:06Your oven must be cold, fully cold, or for hours before you put a hand in it.
03:14Never work in an oven with any heat left in it.
03:18Cold oven and then you begin.
03:20You will want a bowl, a pair of rubber gloves to keep the soda off your hands,
03:26a plastic spatula or scraper, never a metal one,
03:30and two or three old rags or clots you do not mind getting filthy because filthy they will get.
03:38Here is the making of the paste.
03:41Into your bowl, put about a half cup of baking soda.
03:45Then add water, a little at a time, a spoonful or two, stirring as you go,
03:51until it comes together into a spreadable paste, about the thickness of a soft frosting,
03:57thick enough to cling to the walls of the oven without running straight off,
04:02but loose enough to spread.
04:04If you get it too thin, add a little more soda.
04:08Too thick, a touch more water.
04:10It does not have to be exact at all.
04:13You are only after a paste that will spread and stick.
04:18For a badly baked on oven, you will want a good deal of it.
04:22So do not be shy.
04:24Mix up plenty.
04:25You can always stir more.
04:28Now you spread it.
04:30With your gloved hands or the plastic spatula,
04:33smear that paste all over the inside of the oven,
04:37the bottom first and most thickly where the worst of the baked on spills are.
04:42Then up the side walls, the back, the top.
04:46Get it into the grimy corners and over every baked on spot.
04:51And spread it on the inside of the glass door too,
04:54for the soda paste is gentle enough that it will not scratch the glass.
04:58And the glass is where the worst brown film cooks on
05:02and where most cleaners struggle.
05:04Lay it on thick wherever the grime is heavy,
05:07a good covering,
05:09working it right onto the baked on spots with your fingers.
05:13Leave clear only the bare heating element if yours sits exposed
05:17and the little vent holes.
05:19Everywhere else, cover it.
05:21Do not be troubled when the paste goes brown as you work
05:24or after it sits, for it will.
05:27And that is right.
05:28It is the paste taking up the old grease and the burnt on spill,
05:32which is exactly its work.
05:34Brown paste is paste that is doing its job.
05:37And now comes the easy part,
05:40the part that makes this method so gentle.
05:42You close the oven door and you walk away
05:45and you leave it overnight,
05:4712 hours or so while you sleep.
05:50All that long while the soda paste sits against the baked on grease
05:54and quietly loosens its hold,
05:56doing the soaking work
05:57so that you will not have to do the scrubbing work.
06:00This is the whole secret of the gentle way,
06:03time instead of muscle.
06:05Where the harsh sprays promise to cut it in minutes with their strength,
06:09the soda paste takes it off overnight with patience.
06:12And patience is free and gentle and asks nothing of your arm.
06:16So leave it be till morning.
06:18In the morning, open the oven and have a look.
06:21The paste will have gone dry in places
06:23and stayed a little damp in others
06:25and brown all over where it took up the grime.
06:29Now you take your plastic spatula or scraper,
06:32the plastic so it cannot scratch the surface,
06:35and you scrape the bulk of the dried paste up and out,
06:38working over the whole inside, the bottom and the walls,
06:42lifting off most of the soda and the grime it has gathered with it.
06:46You will see the baked on spots come up with the paste,
06:49loosened by the long night,
06:51lifting away where before they were welded on.
06:54Scrape the bigot of it off first,
06:56into the bin or onto a sheet of newspaper,
06:59all around the oven.
07:01Then take a damp old cloth and wipe it all down,
07:04starting from the back and working forward,
07:06rinsing the cloth often in a basin of warm water
07:09and wringing it out and going again,
07:12wiping away the last of the soda paste and the grime together.
07:15You will need to rinse that cloth many times and wring it filthy and come back,
07:20and for the spots that baked on hardest, you will want a little elbow grease.
07:25A firmer rub with the damp cloth right on the spot,
07:28for even the gentle way leaves a few stubborn places that want a bit of work.
07:33But it is a fraction of the scrubbing you would have faced on a dry, untreated oven,
07:38because the night and the paste did the loosening.
07:41Keep wiping and keep rinsing the cloth until all the baking soda is wiped away
07:46and the surface comes clean,
07:47and give it a last wipe with a fresh, damp cloth to be sure no soda film is left behind.
07:54Now the vinegar, the last gentle step, and here is what it is for.
07:59After all that soda, there will often be a faint whitish film left on the surface,
08:04the trace of the baking soda dried on,
08:06and vinegar is just the thing to take it off,
08:09because vinegar is a mild acid, and the soda is a mild base,
08:13and the one cuts the other clean away.
08:16So put a little white vinegar in a spray bottle,
08:19mist it lightly over the inside of the oven,
08:22and especially over the glass of the door,
08:24and you may see it fizz a little where it meets the last of the soda,
08:28which is only the two of them meeting and is just what you want.
08:32Then wipe it down with a clean, dry towel,
08:35a fresh one, not the filthy rag.
08:38The vinegar lifts the film, and the dry towel buffs it clear,
08:42and the glass comes up clean and bright,
08:44which is the very part of an oven hardest to get clean by any other means,
08:48and which this does beautifully without a scratch.
08:52And there it is.
08:53Stand back and look.
08:54A clean oven, the baked-on grime of a hundred suppers lifted away,
08:59the glass clear, and almost no scrubbing for it,
09:02done with three cheap things from your cupboard,
09:05and a night's patience, and no fumes in your kitchen at all.
09:08If a few of the very worst spots remain, the ones burned on hardest,
09:14you simply lay a little fresh paste on those alone,
09:17leave it an hour, and wipe again, and they come too.
09:21But most ovens come clean in the one overnight pass.
09:25Now think for a quiet moment about why nobody taught you the gentle way,
09:30and sold you the fuming bottle instead.
09:33There is a great deal of money in oven cleaner,
09:36the harsh spray in the can with the strong name,
09:39bought again every time the oven wants cleaning.
09:43And there is no money at all in telling you
09:45that a half cup of baking soda you already own,
09:49left overnight, does the same work more gently,
09:52and leaves nothing harsh behind in the oven your food cooks in.
09:56So the can gets the bright label and the advertisement,
10:00and the plain soda in your cupboard,
10:02which your grandmother cleaned with,
10:04never gets mentioned at all.
10:06I do not say there is a plot in it.
10:08It is the same quiet thing as always.
10:11A whole shelf of harsh cleaners grew up around a job
10:15that a cheap, gentle thing had always done,
10:18and the gentle way just stopped being passed along,
10:21mother to daughter,
10:23because no one profits by reminding you of it.
10:26Your grandmother cleaned her oven with soda and a damp cloth
10:30and thought nothing of it.
10:31It was simply how it was done,
10:33and somewhere that plain knowing quietly slipped away
10:37until cleaning an oven came to mean a can of fumes
10:41and a warning to open the windows when it never needed to.
10:45The mending of it is one night's patience.
10:48You smear the soda paste on tonight.
10:51You sleep.
10:52You wipe it out in the morning and polish it with vinegar,
10:55and you have a clean oven and a kitchen with no fumes in it
10:59and a few dollars still in your pocket
11:01and nothing harsh left behind where your bread will bake.
11:05That is how it comes home,
11:07one gentle overnight at a time,
11:10the cleaning of your own kitchen back in your own hands
11:13and out of the fuming can.
11:16So here is what I would ask of you.
11:18The next dirty oven you face,
11:21try the gentle way,
11:22the soda paste overnight and the vinegar wipe,
11:25and come back and tell me in the comments how it did,
11:29how much came off with how little scrubbing.
11:31And tell me too, while you are there,
11:34your county and the age of your house,
11:36because the old houses have the old ovens,
11:39the heavy ones built to last 50 years
11:42and be cleaned by hand.
11:44And I learn from every one of you
11:46how those old workhorses are holding up.
11:49I read them all.
11:50I learn from you the way the old women learned from one another
11:54across the fence line,
11:55one kitchen and one season at a time.
11:58Tonight, you start with the soda paste.
12:00You let your oven go cold.
12:02You smear the gentle paste over the baked-on grime.
12:05You close the door and you sleep.
12:08And in the morning, you wipe away the loosened mess
12:11and polish the glass with a little vinegar.
12:13And you stand back and see a clean oven
12:16with no fumes and no fear and hardly any scrubbing.
12:20And you understand at last that the gentle old way
12:23was the better way all along,
12:25cleaner for your food and kinder to your hands
12:28and cheaper by far.
12:30The people who built this country with their hands
12:33kept their kitchens bright with plain, cheap things
12:36and a little patience.
12:38And that is a thing we are only just starting to remember.
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