Old-fashioned advice for getting your ovens gleaming

Tips in removing baked-on fatty deposits and a thousand mysterious atrophied food spatters

When cleaning any oven, ensure you don’t attack any linings or in particular the glass of the door with too much force or chemistry. Picture: iStock

You finally open the culinary tomb-of-doom, and face down an oven dulled by a rancid landscape of baked-on fatty deposits and a thousand mysterious atrophied food spatters.

Chances are you might instinctively reach for the most toxic chemicals you will ever admit to the house.