Clean Your Oven

Take my advice: Clean your oven at least once a year. Maybe twice.
Don't learn the hard way like I did. Don't wait 5+ years.

Last night I was finishing up my apartment cleaning, and I had to do the task I was avoiding the most. Cleaning out the window trays wasn't fun, dusting the blinds was a pain, scrubbing the shower wasn't that pleasant, either, but this was going to be the worst. Most conversations I had about this went like this:


Random person: But it's so easy to clean them with a self-cleaning oven.
Me: I don't have a self-cleaning oven.
Random person: Really? You don't have one?
Me: No.
Random person: But it's still not that bad if you use Easy-off.
Me: I just bought a can.
Random person: You should be fine! Just let it soak really good.
Me: I never cleaned my oven in the five years I lived there.
Random person: Oh...............................................good luck.

I did just that. I sprayed the Easy Off like it was going out of style, let it soak for triple the time recommended on the can, used a scrub brush, used three rags to wipe up the mess, messed up my shirt really bad, but it worked.
Does the oven look better than it did on last week? Absolutely.
Does the oven look as good as when I moved in? Probably not.
Does it look so spotless I could eat off it? Eew...Never.

Do I care? No.