How to Clean an Oven Door (also Between the Glass)

Every cook knows that baking food in a clean kitchen is much more inspiring than having to deal with a dirty workspace. However, when cooking, it's inevitable that your oven gets dirty. Baking tasty food releases a delicious aroma, but also little fat molecules, that get carried on the oven door glass, where they lay out their headquarters with a perfect view on the rest of the kitchen.

Luckily, cleaning fat is very easy, if you know how to approach it - in this Instructable, we'll see how to clean an oven door from the outside, but also inside, between the two glass layers.

Baking soda

Water

Vinegar

A green sponge

For all of those who prefer to see the cleaning in action, here's a short tutorial:

Start by mixing baking soda and water with a 1:1 ratio.

Pour the paste on the oven door, and scrub away all the fat using the green side of a dishwashing sponge. When you run out of clean paste, add some dry baking soda and continue rubbing.

An alternative and very popular method is to use a mixture of baking soda and vinegar to clean the inside surfaces of the oven. I can confirm that that method works, even better than the one I just gave you - but the owner's manual of my oven clearly states that you shouldn't use a combination of vinegar and baking soda. So use that tip at your own risk, but be warned that it work very very well.

If you haven't cleaned your oven window in years, chances are that there are some burned spots that won't come off using a sponge. To get rid of those, you can use a spatula to carefully scrape them away.

We can spray some vinegar onto a tissue, and use it to remove the last particles of baking soda.

Now the outside of the door is clean - but there's still dirt stuck inside. To get rid of it, we'll have to remove the door from the oven.

Locate the hinges of the door - when you look closely, you'll notice two smaller hinges sitting on top of the larger hinges. Rotate them, and you can remove the door by pulling it upwards.

Use a screwdriver to remove the big screws you see on the outside of the door. Now, when pulling carefully on the metal chassis, the door should split in half, giving you access to the inside of the glass door.

To clean it, you can use the same mixture as earlier, or you can try out some baking soda + vinegar paste.

Finally, put the door back together and place it back on the oven while making sure that the hinges get attached correctly.

Congratulations! You now have a clean oven door, that's ready to showcase all the delicious food that you will be making!

Thank you for reading my Instructable, and have a nice day! :)