A woman has shared her simple cleaning hack that will make your oven door look as good as new. The best part is you only need one thing to make it work and it will cost you just 5p
It’s the season of joy, but with a house full of visiting relatives and the pressure to play the perfect host, the last thing you need is for everyone to spot and gossip about your grotty oven door.
Fear not, as one savvy lady has shared her clever trick for keeping your oven sparkling without much hassle. This 5p idea isn’t just a timesaver when tackling those pesky burnt-on messes and grim build-up on your oven glass – it’s incredibly cheap, too. The secret?
A simple Aldi dishwasher tablet is all you need – saving you from the eye-watering fumes and expense of standard oven cleaners. The top tip made its way onto the ‘Mums Who Clean’ Facebook group initially, where one user admitted she had only attempted to clean her oven twice in three years, both times throwing in the towel due to the enormity of the task.
But with this new-found method, she said all it took was moistening a dishcloth, grabbing an Aldi tablet, and putting in a bit of effort. She revealed in her post: “It did take about half an hour and some elbow grease, but it works! I just used the plain old Aldi tablets and I used I think four of them. There was a particularly stubborn spot in the bottom corner so I found breaking some up using sharper parts of the tablet worked to get it up.”
A TikTok user, known as @healthylittlepeach, has taken the oven cleaning game by storm with her homemade solution that’s wowing cleaning enthusiasts. In a video to her 354,000 followers, Mac confessed: “I’m not going to lie to you all. I’m the type of girl who cleans her oven once a year but when I clean it I’ve got to clean it.”
She shared a chemical-free mix consisting of half a cup of washing-up liquid, one and a half cups of baking soda, and three-quarters of a cup of white vinegar, which forms a powerful paste for tackling stubborn dirt.
Mac advised: “I remove the oven rack and add it to a hot tub of water. I soak that with some washing up liquid, some laundry detergent and some baking soda, then let it sit.”
While the racks are soaking, she applies the paste inside the oven and suggests leaving it for two hours for the best results. “Then I scrub the mess out of it, this is the hard part. You’ve got to scrub it. I have a little water bottle of spritz in case it gets crusty. I take a whole roll of paper towels and wipe it all down.”
For the finishing touch, Mac recommends spritzing the oven’s exterior with an antibacterial cleaner and buffing it up with a microfibre cloth.
