Use this clever hack to clean your oven without ‘nasty chemicals’

Your ovenworked hard roasting turkeys and perfecting festive dishes this Christmas season, leaving you with the difficult job of cleaning it thoroughly afterwards. Stubborn stains and grease can be hard to remove.

Luckily, a woman came up with a clever hack that will leave your oven sparkling. She shared it with fellow online users.

This solution can be completely eco-friendly

The neat tip only involves a few household items and can be all sorted in just a couple of hours. Once it was shared on TikTok by Mac under username @healthylittlepeach, it got huge praise from her 354,000 followers.

In the viral clip Mac said:

I'm not going to lie to you all. I'm definitely the type of girl who cleans her oven once a year but when I clean it I've got to clean it.

She reveals the ingredients for her solution which avoids any nasty chemicals.

The miracle mix contains just half a cup of washing-up liquid, one and a half cups of baking soda and three-quarters of a cup of white vinegar.

The best bit is that the mix can be completely eco-friendly if you use washing-up liquid made of natural ingredients.

Only three ingredients for a miracle result

When mixed together, the ingredients make a white paste which can work wonders on those grimy oven racks.

Mac said:

I remove the oven rack and add it to a hot tub of water. I soak that with some washing-up liquid, some laundry detergent and some baking soda, then let it sit.

While the racks are soaking you can apply the paste to the interior of the oven and leave it to sit for two hours. You can then ‘scrub the mess out of it’. While this might be a ‘hard part’, Mac advises keeping a little water bottle of spritz in case it gets crusty.

Mac adds:

I take a whole roll of paper towels and wipe it all down. I go to the bathtub and clean those racks, and add them back in.

The final part of the cleaning process is to spritz down the outside of the oven using an antibacterial cleaner and a microfiber cloth.

After the video has been shared over 2000 times, other online users commented and shared their own tips on improving the method.

One wrote:

Try boiling the vinegar before adding it to the mix. It will get more of the stuff off and is easier to scrub.

Another one said:

This is even cleaner than the self-cleaner on the stove and much cheaper. It’s so pretty.

Sources used:

- Echo: ''Clever' oven cleaning hack using three household items which sorts it 'for a year''