Why you need to take your oven apart and clean it right now

A professional cleaner has revealed exactly how to clean your oven thoroughly – by taking it apart piece by piece. 

Mother-of-five Kacie Stephens, from Melbourne, admitted cleaning the oven is her least-favourite job, despite being important for the function and life span of the appliance.

In an Instagram video the Big Clean Co cleaner showed how to remove doors, rack holders and even the glass from your oven.

She added that the glass is removed in different ways depending on the model and that people should check their manuals because replacing doors is expensive.

‘There’s nothing worse than losing your soul to the inside of an oven only to close the door and see a line of grease in that crevice between the glass layers,’ she said.

She said she cleans a lot of ovens but makes a judgement call on whether the glass needs to be taken out. 

‘If they’re stiff and hard to take apart at all, we don’t. It’s not worth risking breakage to us. But when they do come apart simply and easily we do it – and really you can’t beat that look of pure perfection when the inner glass is perfect,’ she said.

And according to her comments on the post it has been trial and error.

‘Is it one of the ones with a gap so you can wash the glass? Coz I’ve tried doing that and lordy it made it worse I had a cloth around my squeegee and I was trying to wash and scrub in the gap,’ she said.

The busy mum often gets given tips to try from her audience and tried an ‘oven rack cleaning hack’ recently after hearing about it for years.

The hack involves burying the oven racks under fresh lawn clippings overnight.

‘As bloody ridiculous as it sounded to me I thought, what the hell,’ she said as she buried the racks.

‘I left them overnight and can now confirm the hack is as rubbish as it sounded,’ she said.

She explained each oven comes apart in a different way but cleaning the glass makes a huge difference 

Other cleaners admitted to trying the hack too, with no success.

But some people commented to defend the hack and said the racks have to be collected while there is still dew on the grass.

Some suggested bugs and rodents could be responsible for miraculously cleaning racks beneath the grass.