Oven mate my mate (Lakeland Oven Mate)

Member Name: juicy_lucy

Product:	Lakeland Oven Mate
Date:	06/06/08 (223 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cleans the oven

Disadvantages: Lots of cloths needed

Oven Mate

A job I absolutely hate but which obviously has to be done is cleaning the oven. I have over the years tried all kinds of products with a greater or lesser level of success and have started using this one.

An oven, grill pan and barbecue cleaner, this promises to remove the most stubborn baked on grease oil and fat from most cooking surfaces. It promises me that I won't have to scrub and will not leave any of those awful oven cleaning smells.

PRODUCT AND PACKAGING

The product comes in a 500ml blue bottle with a red child safety top. All of the warnings instructions and information are clearly shown on the plastic bottle. It also comes with a brush ready to spread the product all over those dirty surfaces.

The product itself is a sort of thick gel which when brushed onto the surfaces looks as though it could almost be clear but then once it starts attacking the dirt it does very quickly go brown.

HOW DO I USE IT?

This has to be good. It promises me no more scrubbing so I want it to work.

Firstly, make sure that the oven is not hot

Shake the bottle and spread the product evenly with the brush provided. It suggests that the product should be spread to the thickness of the dirt to be removed, and then it should be left to work for anything between 3 minutes and 3 hours. I know when it's worked its magic because the product goes brown and I find that this is usually a lot less than 3 hours. Once it has gone brown, then just wipe it off with a cloth.

CAUTIONS

This is corrosive, so there are plenty of cautions, most of which are common sense.

* Wear protective clothing and don't get it on skin
* Keep away from children
* Dispose of the container safely

PRICE AND AVAILABILITY

Costing around £6 for 500ml this is readily available from online stores.


VERDICT

It hasn't made the task of oven cleaning any more pleasant but it does work. I usually leave it on for about an hour, and the dirt really does lift. When wiped with a cloth, there is lots and lots of brown gunk on the cloth, so the claim that it just needs to be wiped away isn't true- lots of cloths are needed.

The first time I used the product I found that I had to leave it working for longer, but now with fairly regular use, I can do a quick clean and the worst of the dirt comes off quite easily but still a lot of cloths required.

I tend to clean the oven when it's fairly warm outside so that I can leave the windows and door open, but the claim that there is no acrid smell seems to be true. Any smell there is is quite minimal and certainly doesn't leave me feeling as though I have been working with some really noxious substance.

An oven cleaner which works and which I would recommend.

Thanks for reading.

Daniela x

Summary: Oven cleaner