How To Clean Your Oven Like a Real Janitor

#cleaningtips #ovencleaning #JanitorSecrets #homecleaning #bakingsoda That black crust in your oven has two famous fixes: the spray can that burns your eyes, and the self-clean button. After thirty years cleaning a hospital's cafeteria kitchen at night, Dorothy Mays wants you to know the truth about both. In this video: the dishwasher-pod soak that cleans your racks while you sleep, why the dry mess comes out before one drop of cleaner goes in, the baking soda paste that does what the can does without the fumes, the real reason you never mix soda and vinegar together, the razor blade trick for baked-on char, and the full story of what the self-clean button actually does at eight hundred degrees, and why appliance repairmen call it the button that kills ovens. Plus the honest way to use the store can if you choose it. No products to sell you. Just baking soda, vinegar, patience, and thirty years of knowing where dirt hides. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - The Door You Keep Closing 1:04 - The Button You'll Never Press Again 2:24 - Stop 1: The Racks Soak Themselves Clean 3:08 - Stop 2: The Dry Mess Leaves First 3:50 - Stop 3: The Cleaner, Paste or Can 5:57 - The Heating Element 6:16 - Stop 4: The Truth About Self-Clean 7:56 - Stop 5: The Glass and the Char 8:51 - The Racks Come Back 9:21 - Dry It Out, and Two Warnings 10:11 - Why Nobody Taught You the Paste 10:48 - How to Never Face This Again 11:41 - Your Homework Tonight Disclaimer: This video is for general home-cleaning information only. Never mix cleaning products, and never use oven cleaner and bleach-based products on the same day. If you use a commercial oven cleaner, ventilate well, wear gloves and eye protection, and follow every direction on the label. Check your oven's manual before removing the door or lifting the heating element, and keep all cleaners off stainless steel surfaces.