Manually Clean an Oven - PEP BB nest.sand.cleanoven

I recently bought a spray can of oven cleaner, and have been reluctant to use it because I didn't want to breathe in the fumes.
I didn't know baking soda alone would be so effective! I guess I wasted some money (doh!), but at least I saved my lungs
Not everything came off - there's still some grease stains on the door and window, but overall it made a huge difference. ✨

Here is my clean oven pics for the BB:

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
 - manually clean an oven
     - use only water and baking soda

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide:
  - a before picture of the dirty oven
  - an action shot of oven during cleaning with water and baking soda
  - an after picture of clean oven
  - OR a 2-minute video of you doing this

Tess

My hubby tried to be romantic and make a fancy dinner for Valentine’s Day but had a little fight with oven. He dropped the sheet pan of veggies into the bottom of our already dirty oven. We had a good laugh and ate bread and jam instead. 🤣 then I had to clean up the mess after dinner, but I was giggling for most of it because it reminded me of a time several years ago when I tried to be romantic with a homemade meal and did the same thing and he cleaned up the mess for me.
I used baking soda and warm water and a whole lot of elbow grease!!

Tess Misch wrote:Here is my clean oven pics for the BB:

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
 - manually clean an oven
     - use only water and baking soda

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must provide:
  - a before picture of the dirty oven
  - an action shot of oven during cleaning with water and baking soda
  - an after picture of clean oven
  - OR a 2-minute video of you doing this

Tess

As this is part of the   PEA    for apartment dwellers BB, we inherit an already baked on 'stained' oven.  I feel that to get a "perfectly clean" oven is unreasonable and quite honestly not possible with just hot water & baking soda.  I don't have any scrub brush that is stiff enough to clean it. I can't afford to go get one.  Normally I use foil in the bottom when I am cooking something I know could drip.  But I had run out & the dish spilled over. I cleaned the entire mess made from MY dish.  What you see is what was there when we moved into the apartment.  I feel that my BB should be reconsidered as complete.  Thank you.  --Tess