How to get self cleaning oven shelves clean?
 

Do you keep yours in the oven during the clean cycle. I understand that will turn them colors.....but if it is clean I would not care (I don't think).

There has to be an easy way to clean the shelves.

How do you do it?

I don't use my self-cleaning option. I still use Easy Off and spray the shelves with it as well. I feel like my oven gets cleaner with the spray.

You wait until your Husband retires and suggest that they need to be repaired. Ours are now spotless.

Yes, leaving them in will not only turn them dark, it will leave them rough and harder to slide in and out, which is a problem, for instance, when sliding something liquid into the oven.

Take them out and use oven spray outside. Our self-cleaning feature works very well, and I would not use oven cleaner on a self-cleaning oven. Voids the warranty, and the interior surfaces are not supposed to be subjected to it.

I agree with CFrance -- take the shelves out. They won't be that dirty and hard to clean unless you practically cooked something right on them. Or sloshed. Or cooked while sloshed.

My father-in-law had some deal he did with a garbage bag and a cup of ammonia. He left the oven racks in that mixture in the driveway overnight. It worked like a charm for him but never worked very well for me.

Brillo Pads or oven spray on the racks (outside) works the best for me. Or cleaning the racks more often.

Medtrans,
Big no-no using oven cleaner on a self-clean oven. It will ruin the oven liner and that's is very expensive to replace. Once done, cannot-be undone.

A friend told me that, handed a box of Brillo and the task of cleaning the oven racks, he went out and bought new ones. He told me they're only about $20 each.

This is all hearsay, of course.

Thanks but I have a 10-year old oven here in Chicago. That ship has sailed. I will, however, be sure not to do this with my new stove in our new home in TV. Thanks.

I want Ina Garten's oven & racks (Barefoot Contessa). Ever notice that no matter what she puts in her oven or how long she's been baking, the inside of the oven is pristine? I can see my teeth in the reflections through the TV screen.

Huh? You mean ovens are supposed to be used for something other than storage? I've been living in The Villages for nearly 15 years and now they tell me. :shrug:

I pour the ammonia on a couple of paper towels and toss them in the black garbage bag with the racks and leave the closed bag in the sun for a couple of hours. I can wipe most of the dirt off with those wet paper towels when I remove the racks from the bag. What little dirt is left behind comes off easily with a wipe with the Brillo.

I didn't know people in the Villages used their ovens enough to get them dirty !
I've been in this house 10 1/2 years. Turned the self cleaning on twice.
I think I could almost sell my oven for brand new. LOL ;)

I once cleaned a house for a lady here who had lived here approximately five years. She had the cleanest oven I had ever seen. I opened her oven to wipe it down and literally laughed so hard my sides ached. The oven manuals were stil in their plastic bags on the shelf.