Cleaning the Oven

My adventure in cleaning the oven:

While going to make dinner last night I realized how very dirty our oven was.  Being the good housewife I am I went to the store and bought some oven cleaner.  Little did I know I also needed a heaping vat of elbow grease. 

I started with a very messy oven:

 And some cleaning supplies:

Following the directions very carefully since this is a fairly new oven I sprayed an even coat over all surfaces and closed the door.  I set the timer for 2 hours and in that time I cleaned the bathrooms and even deep cleaned the shower and grout.


2 hours later:

The foam seemed to be doing the job.  Once I got all the foam off there was still a film and some grime left over so I got to scrubbing.  It took another 1.5 hours for me to finally be happy with how clean the oven was.

Here are the results:

Not bad. 

My arms are so sore they feel like they are going to fall off and I had to finally light a candle because the cleaner was so stinky but I have a nice clean oven.  I say it was 3.5 hours well spent.  Maybe next time I will use the self cleaning option if I am not so chicken about burning my house down.

Till next time my friends...