Cleaning Hack; How To Easily Clean Oven Glass Window

I have a confession to make, my oven glass window was so dirty with baked on grease I could barely see through it. You know it’s bad when you still can’t see what’s cooking in the oven even after turning on the oven light. Granted, being a food blogger I do cook a lot, and it was high time to address that dirty window and get it clean!

Even though I have a self cleaning oven, the glass never gets as clean and clear as I want it to be. Plus I hate using the self cleaning feature unless I absolutely must; the house smells horrid for several days after running the clean cycle on the oven…yuck! I don’t like using harsh chemicals in my home either. So when I ran across a YouTube video with this easy looking instructions for how to clean it, using no toxic chemicals I knew I had to at least give it a try to see if it actually worked.

Thank you to Suzy Rebelo for this “DIY” Natural Oven Window Cleaner.

I’ll be honest, I had my doubts that it was actually going to work. The grease and food splatters were baked onto the glass, over and over. How on earth could I get it off without using something abrasive that might actually scratch the glass?

Today I am going to share how I got my oven window glass to go from a baked on, greasy hot mess to a shiny clean, clear glass that I can actually see through.

This hack uses only two inexpensive ingredients, white vinegar and cream of tartar. I guess I have an especially large oven door window (15½” x 23″) so I needed to make a double batch but you may only need to make up one batch if your oven window is smaller than mine. Start with one batch and see how far it goes before mixing up a second batch.

Get a small bowl and combine 2 parts cream of tartar with one part white vinegar (2 tablespoons cream of tartar with 1 tablespoon white vinegar).

CAUTION: Do not attempt this cleaning method unless your oven is cold.

MONEY SAVING TIP: If your supermarket has bulk bins check to see if you can purchase the cream of tartar in bulk rather than in the spice section where they sell it in small bottles. It’s much less expensive to buy it in bulk.

Once you have a smooth lump free liquid, pour it directly onto the oven glass.

Spread the mixture out evenly onto the entire surface of the glass using a basting brush.

Allow the mixture to dry completely. The instructions said it would take about 30 minutes, but it took a couple hours for the mixture to completely dry for me. Its winter and the house is on the colder side right now, so that might be the reason why it took longer for the paste to dry.

Once the mixture is completely dry, crumple up a paper towel and using small circular motions, start rubbing the dried on paste off of the glass with the paper towel.

At first it may not seem like anything is happening, just keep rubbing with firm pressure. Depending on how dirty and baked on the grease is, it may take a considerable amount of elbow grease to rub all the grime off the surface of the glass. Mine was especially bad, and it took me a good 30 minutes of pretty firm rubbing to get the glass cleaned off.

Replace paper towel when it gets grimy from the grease.

Once you’ve got the grime rubbed off and the glass is smooth, use wet paper towels to wipe up the powder that is left behind on the glass. I have a few stubborn spots on the glass that refused to come off, so I will apply a second coat to get up the rest of the stuck on grease off the glass. But I’m feeling a bit lazy so it will have to wait for another day.

A couple of things you should know.

• It will probably take longer for the paste to dry than 30 minutes.
• This is not a brush on the paste and wipe it off cleaning technique. There is a pretty serious amount of elbow grease that’s required to get the glass clean.
• The cream of tartar has an abrasive quality that gets the grease off of the glass without scratching the glass.
• I love the fact that it didn’t require any toxic chemicals to get the glass clean just some sweat equity on my part.

I am so very pleased with how good the glass looks and how clean it is after trying this method. It really worked! It just makes me smile when I use the oven now and I can actually see the food inside as it’s cooking. What can I say? It’s the little things in life like a clean oven window that make me smile.

Let me know if you give this a try and if you have the same good results I had!

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