How to Clean Your Oven....Naturally

I recently saw some youtube tutorials on cleaning your oven with baking soda so I decided to give it a try since I refuse to use toxic oven cleaners, and I desperately needed a natural solution!

Here are my results:                                           BEFORE:

                                                                        AFTER:

As you can see my results were fantastic.  I have to be honest this method is a bit messy but it does work great.   So how to do it?
Buy a big bag or box of baking soda & and a large spray bottle if you don't have one, use a scoop or measuring cup (1 cup size) to scoop the baking soda and sprinkle it onto the surface of your oven (I also did this to the inside of the oven door).  Apply very heavily to any soiled areas.   One down side to this is that if you have stains on the back, top or sides of your oven this isn't going to work too well for those spots.. since the baking soda cannot be placed heavily on those areas and be allowed to sit like that.  I was able to spray the walls then 'throw' some baking soda at them to give them a light coating.. which did take some off but they did not come entirely clean like the bottom of the oven.  So after you have laid the baking soda down then spray very heavily with water using your spray bottle.  You want the water to saturate the baking soda enough to make it a thick paste consistency.   Now leave it for at least 12 hours but up to 24 hours.  Check on it periodically and respray any spots that have begun to dry.  You want to keep that baking soda in a wet paste consistency throughout the process.  When your ready, just take a wet wash cloth and begin wiping up all the soda.  The crusted stains should just wipe right up, some spots that maybe didn't get as heavy of a coat of baking soda will need to be rubbed over it a few times but it should come right off as well.  I hope you all have as much luck with this as I did!