— ingrid ortega

Yeah, that is true. Um, I have to admit, I've never used a self-cleaning oven, uh, or function on any oven I've ever used, um, quite honestly, 'cause it's just super duper high heat for eight hours and it locks the doors and everything. And that just kind of scares me a little bit. So anything I, anytime I've ever done it, what I've done is put, uh, like a hotel pan or just a pan of water in the oven, turn it on for a little bit, take, uh, let that kind of steam bath, kind of moisten everything in the oven, take that out and then get on my hands and knees and scrub it from the inside with a, like a scrub brush. Um, you know, uh, um, a sponge that has kind of a rigid edge on the outside of it as well too. Um, and that's typically how I clean it. Um, you know, that's, it's kind of old school, but it works well. Um, and, you know, uh, how to avoid getting it dirty is basically avoiding spills, which nobody can do. Things are going to happen and that's just part of cooking and that's okay.