Dirty, greasy oven racks? 🧽🔥 In this video, I’ll show you an easy and effective way to clean oven racks and remove stubborn baked-on grease, grime, and food residue.
You’ll learn a simple cleaning method that can save you time and make even heavily used oven racks look fresh and clean again. No need to spend hours scrubbing!
✨ In this video:
• How to clean dirty oven racks
• How to loosen baked-on grease
• Easy oven cleaning tips
• Simple ways to tackle stubborn grime
• How to keep your oven racks cleaner longer
Try this method the next time your oven racks need a deep clean!
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You’ll learn a simple cleaning method that can save you time and make even heavily used oven racks look fresh and clean again. No need to spend hours scrubbing!
✨ In this video:
• How to clean dirty oven racks
• How to loosen baked-on grease
• Easy oven cleaning tips
• Simple ways to tackle stubborn grime
• How to keep your oven racks cleaner longer
Try this method the next time your oven racks need a deep clean!
#CleaningTips #OvenCleaning #CleanOven #CleaningHacks #DeepCleaning #HomeCleaning #KitchenCleaning
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00:00Of all the grimed and greasy things in a kitchen, there is one that folk dread above the rest and
00:06put off the longest, and that is the oven racks.
00:09You know the ones, gone brown and black and sticky with the baked-on grease and the burnt drippings of
00:16a hundred dinners,
00:17so caked that you have quite forgotten they were ever bright, bare metal.
00:22And you dread them because you have tried, haven't you, scrubbing at them over the sink with a brush and
00:28a bottle of something harsh,
00:30your arm aching, the black barely shifting, the whole business a misery.
00:35Well, put that misery away, for I am going to show you the plain old way to bring those racks
00:41back to bright, near-new metal with almost no scrubbing at all.
00:46The secret is not in the scrubbing. It is in letting them soak while you sleep.
00:51Let me show you. Here is the thing to understand first.
00:55The whole reason your scrubbing failed and the soak succeeds.
01:00That black on your racks is baked-on grease, cooked and re-cooked onto the metal over years, until it
01:07is hard as stone and welded fast.
01:10And a thing baked on like that will not scrub off, no matter how you labor, because it has bonded
01:16to the metal,
01:17and scrubbing at a bonded thing is fighting it with your arm, when you ought to be dissolving it with
01:22time.
01:24Grease wants two things to let go. Warmth, to soften it, and soap, and a bit of alkali, to break
01:31it down.
01:32Give it both, hot water and soap and soda, and give it time, hours and hours, all night even,
01:39and that baked-on grease slowly softens and lets go of the metal all on its own, so that in
01:45the morning it wipes away where a whole evening scrubbing would not have touched it.
01:50The soak does the work you were trying to do with your arm. That is the whole secret.
01:56Now let me give you the way of it, step by step. Quick word before we go further.
02:01My name is Esther Yoder, and the old household ways handed down to me, the kind I am sharing today,
02:08and a great many more besides,
02:10are far more than I could ever fit into one video.
02:14I have gathered the whole of them into a book, and you will find it at EliasYoder.com.
02:19If today's tips serve you, that is where the rest of what my mother and grandmother taught me lives, all
02:26in the one place.
02:27Now, to the racks.
02:29My grandmother had a saying that fit this exactly, and near everything else in a kitchen besides,
02:35that patience is the cheapest help a woman can hire, and it works while she sleeps.
02:41She meant that so many of the hard jobs are only hard because we go at them in a rush,
02:47by force,
02:48when if we would only set the thing to soak, or to rise, or to steep, and walk away and
02:54let time do the labor,
02:55we would come back to find the work near done for us.
02:59And the oven rack is the very picture of it.
03:02She would no more have stood scrubbing a baked rack than she would have kneaded her bread for six hours
03:07instead of letting it rise.
03:09Set it to soak, she would say, and go to bed.
03:13So here is her kind of way, the long soak.
03:16Now, the first question is where to soak them, for oven racks are big, awkward things,
03:22and they want to lie down flat and be wholly covered with water,
03:26and your kitchen sink is most likely too small to hold them.
03:30So the best place, and the one most folk land on, is the bathtub,
03:35for a tub is long enough to lay the racks out flat, and deep enough to cover them,
03:40and is right there, waiting.
03:41If you have a big laundry tub, or a deep utility sink, that serves just as well,
03:47or even a large tote or tub set on the floor,
03:50or on a fine day, a wheelbarrow, or a big wash tub out in the yard.
03:55Wherever it is, it wants to be big enough that the racks lie flat and go fully under the water.
04:00The tub is easiest for most, so let me tell you how to use it kindly.
04:06Here is a care to take before ever you lay the racks in the tub,
04:09and it matters, for I would not have you clean one thing by harming another.
04:15Line the bottom of the tub with an old towel first, laid down flat, and set the racks on top
04:21of that,
04:21for bare metal racks laid straight onto the tub, can scratch and scar the finish,
04:26especially the enamel of an older tub, as they shift and settle in the water.
04:31So an old towel or two laid down underneath, cushions them and saves your tub,
04:36and it does another good turn besides, for it keeps the racks from clattering,
04:41and it soaks up the grease as it comes loose.
04:44Lay your towel, then lay your racks on it, flat, and now you are ready to fill.
04:50Now you fill the tub with hot water, as hot as your tap will give,
04:54enough to cover the racks completely, right over the top of them,
04:58for any bit left sticking up out of the water will not soak and will not clean,
05:03so see they are wholly under.
05:05And into that hot water you put your cleaners.
05:08And here is what does the work.
05:10A good generous squirt of plain dish soap, the same you wash your dishes with,
05:15for the soap is your great grease cutter,
05:17and it is the heart of this whole method.
05:20And along with it, a good half cup or so of baking soda,
05:24stirred through, for the soda is a gentle alkali that helps break down the grease and lift it,
05:29and it freshens besides.
05:31Soap and soda in hot water, that is your soaking bath,
05:35and it is cheap as can be and does the whole job.
05:38Swish it about with your hand to mix it through,
05:42minding the hot water,
05:43and see that your racks are covered and the soapy soda water is all around and over them.
05:49Now here is a word about the vinegar,
05:51for you may have heard of adding vinegar to such a soak,
05:54and I will be honest with you as I always am,
05:57for the truth serves you better than a trick.
06:00Vinegar is a fine thing,
06:02but understand what it does and does not do here.
06:05Vinegar is an acid,
06:06and its gift is dissolving mineral scale,
06:09the hard water lime and rust,
06:11not so much the grease.
06:13And the baking soda is an alkali,
06:15its opposite.
06:17So if you pour vinegar and soda together and watch them fizz,
06:21know that they are largely cancelling each other out in that fizz,
06:25each undoing the other's strength,
06:26and you are left with weaker cleaning,
06:29not stronger.
06:30So do not put them together thinking the foaming is doing something grand.
06:34It is mostly just show.
06:36For the greasy racks,
06:38the soap and soda in hot water is your method,
06:40and it is the right one.
06:42Now if your racks have gone not just greasy but crusty,
06:46with hard water scale or rust as well,
06:49then vinegar has its own real use.
06:51Soak them a spell in a bath of hot water and vinegar,
06:54on its own, no soda,
06:56and the acid will loosen that mineral crust.
06:59So keep the two baths in mind as two different tools for two different troubles.
07:04Soap and soda for the grease,
07:06which is most of it,
07:07and vinegar alone for the scale,
07:09each in its turn,
07:11not muddled together.
07:12And now the easiest step of all,
07:14the one my grandmother loved,
07:16you leave it and you walk away.
07:18Let those racks soak in the hot soapy soda water a good long while.
07:23And here is where you must give it real time.
07:26For the longer the soak,
07:27the less the scrub.
07:29A few hours at the very least.
07:31The best way by far is to set them to soak in the evening and leave them all night,
07:36right through till morning.
07:37For while you sleep,
07:39the warm soapy water is quietly working down into all that baked grease,
07:43softening it and loosening it and floating it free of the metal,
07:47doing hour after hour the labor you would have done with an aching arm.
07:51You do nothing at all.
07:53The soak does it.
07:54This is the whole beauty of the method,
07:56that its hardest part is going to bed.
07:58Now in the morning,
08:00the water will have gone cool and murky and greasy,
08:04which is only all the grime that has let go of your racks,
08:07a fine sight.
08:08Lift the racks out and let them drip.
08:10And now you will find that most of that black baked on grease has softened right up
08:16and will wipe and rub away with hardly any effort at all.
08:19Take a brush or a scrubbing sponge or here is a good old trick,
08:23a piece of aluminum foil crumpled up into a ball,
08:26which makes a fine gentle scrubber that gets into the bars and go over the racks.
08:31Where you fought that grease all evening before,
08:34now it slides off,
08:36softened by its long soak and the bright metal comes up underneath.
08:40Give the racks a good going over,
08:43top and bottom and all round each bar and lift away the loosened grease.
08:47And if a stubborn bit remains,
08:50a really old caked spot that has not fully given up,
08:53do not fret and do not go back to the hard scrubbing.
08:57Simply soak it again.
08:59Put the racks back in a fresh,
09:01hot,
09:02soapy bath for another few hours.
09:04And that second soak takes off what the first did not.
09:08Old grease that is years in the building sometimes wants two goes.
09:12And that is no failure,
09:14only the nature of it.
09:15Patience and a second soak win where force never will.
09:19And for a rack so old and so thickly caked
09:23that even two soaks will not fully clear it,
09:26know that there is the fireway I have shown you for the cast iron,
09:30the burning off of the crust in a good hot fire outdoors,
09:35which turns even the worst baked carbon to ash.
09:38But for near all racks,
09:41the soak alone does it.
09:42Now,
09:43when your racks are clean and bright,
09:45here is the last and important step,
09:47and I want you to heat it.
09:49For these racks go back into the oven where your food is cooked.
09:54Rinse them very,
09:55very well with clean water.
09:58All the soap and soda and loosened grease rinsed clean away,
10:02for you do not want any soapy residue baking onto your next roast.
10:07And then dry them thoroughly,
10:09with a cloth and then a little air before they go back in,
10:13so they do not sit damp and rust.
10:16Rinsed clean and dried well,
10:18and back into the oven they go,
10:20bright and bare and good as new,
10:22and your whole oven the better for it.
10:25Now think a moment about why we came to believe
10:28that a greasy oven rack wants a harsh caustic spray
10:32and a hard evening scrubbing,
10:34when a tub of hot soapy water and a night soak
10:37does it for pennies while you sleep.
10:40It is worse than a plot, for no one had to arrange it.
10:43There is money in selling a special oven rack cleaner,
10:47a harsh and costly spray,
10:50bought again and again,
10:51and none at all in teaching you
10:53that dish soap and baking soda and a long soak
10:56do the whole job for a few cents and hardly any labor.
11:01So the old plain wisdom,
11:03that patience and a soak beat force and a bottle every time,
11:07just stopped being handed down,
11:09because no one profits by the telling.
11:12My grandmother cleaned everything in her kitchen
11:14with a handful of plain things
11:16and the patient to let them work,
11:18and somewhere between her day and ours,
11:21we were taught that a hard job
11:23wants a harsh chemical and an aching arm.
11:26The mending of it is a tub,
11:28some soap and soda,
11:30and a night's patience.
11:31You line your tub with an old towel to save it.
11:35Lay your racks in flat,
11:37cover them with hot water and dish soap and baking soda,
11:40and leave them to soak all night while you sleep.
11:43And in the morning,
11:44you wipe and rub away the softened grease
11:47with a brush or a ball of foil.
11:50Soak a second time any stubborn bit,
11:52rinse the racks very well,
11:54and dry them before they go back in.
11:57And your dreaded black oven racks
11:59come back bright and near new
12:01for the cost of almost nothing
12:03and hardly any work at all.
12:05That is how it comes home.
12:07One soaked rack,
12:09one night's patience at a time.
12:11The keeping of your own kitchen
12:13back in your own hands.
12:15So here is what I would ask of you.
12:17This week,
12:18take those dreaded racks you have been avoiding,
12:21set them to soak in the tub tonight
12:23the way I showed you and go to bed.
12:25And then come back and tell me in the comments
12:28how they looked in the morning
12:29and how little you had to scrub.
12:31For I do love to hear of a dreaded job
12:34made easy by a bit of patience.
12:36And tell me too,
12:37while you are there,
12:39your county and the age of your house.
12:41For the old houses have the old ovens
12:44and the deep tubs that suit this well.
12:46And the hard water that crusts things
12:49worse in some parts than others.
12:51And I learn from every one of you
12:53how the keeping goes where you live.
12:55And if your own mother or grandmother
12:57had a way with a greasy rack or pan
13:00that I have not named here,
13:01tell me that most of all.
13:03For that is how this goes.
13:05We share what we were given.
13:08I read every comment
13:10and I learn from you
13:11the way the old women learn from one another
13:13across the fence line.
13:15One kitchen and one season at a time.
13:19Next time I will show you
13:21how to clean the whole of the oven
13:22the same easy way.
13:24The door and the glass
13:26and the walls and the bottom.
13:28With the same plain things
13:30and the same patience.
13:31So that the whole oven comes bright and sweet.
13:34Not just the racks.
13:36There is a right and an old way
13:39to keep every corner of a kitchen
13:41that runs on a few cheap things
13:43and a little time
13:44rather than a shelf of harsh bottles.
13:47But this week you start with the racks.
13:50You line your tub with a towel.
13:52You lay them in and cover them
13:54with hot water and soap and soda.
13:57And you leave them to soak
13:58the whole night through while you sleep.
14:01And in the morning
14:02you wipe away the softened grease.
14:04Rinse them well and dry them.
14:07And set them back bright.
14:09And you will understand
14:10as my grandmother did
14:12at her own kitchen
14:13that patience is the cheapest help
14:16a woman can hire
14:17and it works while she sleeps.
14:20That baked on grease
14:21is not a thing to be scrubbed off by force
14:24but softened off by a long warm soak.
14:28And that the dreaded job
14:30you put off for months
14:31was only ever waiting
14:33for you to stop fighting it
14:35and let time do the work.
14:37The kitchen kept the plain old way
14:40is the one that remembers
14:42how the old women
14:43brought everything back to bright
14:45with a little soap,
14:47a long soak,
14:48and the patience to go to bed
14:50and let it work.
14:51And that is a thing
14:53we are only just starting to remember.
14:56And that is something
14:56»Bron »
14:56here.
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