Loves the job you hate!! (Mr Muscle Oven Cleaner)

Member Name: numberthree

Product:	Mr Muscle Oven Cleaner
Date:	20/01/04 (1327 review reads)
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Advantages: simple to use, Doesn't take too long

Disadvantages: Hard to spray top of oven, Nozzle can be stiff

So Mr Muscle ?loves the jobs you hate?. Well I really hate cleaning the oven, especially after being left with one in an absolutely horrendous state when we moved into our new house a while ago. I won?t elaborate but I am sure you can use your imagination. OK then Mr Muscle do your stuff!!

Mr Muscle Oven cleaner comes in a green 300ml aerosol, costing around £2.35. It has an orange lid with a childproof catch ? sometimes Numberthree proof too. This is a good safety device because this product is very toxic, extremely flammable and an irritant, and I wouldn?t want my kids getting their hands on it. There is a huge list of precautions to be taken when using the product so I suggest rather than me reproducing them here, if you fancy using this cleaner then read the back before you buy.

To use you simply remove any stay clean linings and spray the cleaner onto the parts of the oven you wish to clean, including the racks, and glass door. The spray is very easy to direct and you can be fairly accurate with it. Use only on a cold oven! I take my racks out and treat them on the draining board (stainless steel) next to the sink. Spray with the aerosol about 9-12 inches from the oven surfaces. When you spray the product it comes out in a white liquid which develops into foam on contact with the oven. You are meant to hold the can upright at all times, but how you are meant to get the stuff on the top of your oven that way is beyond me. The problem being is that when you angle the can the spray doesn?t come out properly and you are left breathing in the propellant. A definite design fault, it would be far better if the spray came out the top of the nozzle rather than at the side. Close the oven door when you have finished spraying and leave for at least 30 minutes. For best results do not leave the foam to dry out and only leave on for a maximum of 2 hours.

Well that bit is very simple except for the vapour. It?s not that the produ
ct smells but it catches in the back of your throat and makes you heave and cough. I can only use it with the back door open and to be fair one of the warnings does say use in a well-ventilated area and not to breathe in the spray. This is rather difficult when you have you head stuck in an oven though. So short of taking your oven into the garden, open all doors and windows. The funny thing is that the very last warning on the back says ?do not use outdoors? ? very strange.

The next step is to wash the foam away. The layer of foam next to the oven/rack surface has turned brown, loosening the burnt on remnants. The foam and remnants are easy to wash off with hot soapy water and a cloth. I use an ordinary ?jaycloth? type cloth which I throw away when I?ve finished. To make things easier I find it best to put a bowl of hot soapy water in the bottom of the oven and use this to wash the surfaces down. Well it makes a pretty good job and most bits come away, leaving only a bit of scrubbing on the racks. Another warning on the aerosol is to use gloves, which I do, and to be frank I don?t think I?d want any of this stuff on my hands ? as it seems pretty good at shifting burnt on food from my oven I dread to think what it might do to skin! If you don?t quite clean all of the residue away at the end then the oven will smell slightly the next couple of times you use it, but when this has happened to me any food in the oven hasn?t been tainted. I tend to run the oven up now after I have cleaned just to get rid of any lingering bits in the corners.

Well it does a good job despite being awkward to use for the top of the oven. However, beware. Do not get any of this stuff where you don?t want it. Do not get it on the stay clean linings, oven trim, door seal, pilot light or heating elements, microwave ovens, exterior surfaces, chrome, aluminium, plastic or polished surfaces. I know from experience that it will make a brilliant job at stripping no
n-stick surfaces. In other words use it on the inside of your electric or gas oven very carefully!

It is a good product at a good price ? I tend to get 3 cleans out of one can. It is the best on the market that I have tried so far, but please read all the precautions before you use it.

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