man what a mess

grumpyoldman

grumpyoldman

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last night the wife made a pecan pie , the problem is she over filled it and it bubbled over leaving a sticky mess in the bottom of the oven , it was late so i told her we would tackle it this morning , it was like scraping concrete, tried soaking it that wasn't going to work
the oven is electric and has a self cleaning feature so as a last resort we turned on the self cleaning cycle and hoped for the best
after a few minutes the house was so full of smoke i was amazed the fire dept didn't show up i set up fans to draw the smoke out of the house and in about an hour the stove stopped smoking but this thing is on a 3 hour cycle so we had to wait to see what happened , by the time the self cleaning cycle was finished w had all the smoke out of the house and opened the oven door and lo and behold all that was left of the mess was a pile of powdery ash...took a damp cloth and wiped it clean !!!
 
Been there, and yes, that blast from the self-cleaning cycle will damn near melt diamonds.
 
I always have a sheet of foil on the shelf below whatever I have cooking in the oven. If anything bubbles over, clean-up is just wadding up a piece of foil, and tossing it in the trash.

CD
 
i did not think that it would totally turn that mess into a fine powdery ash , i really thought it was just beyond what the self cleaning feature was designed to do but what can i say ....it totally worked
 
I use that mode to clean my pizza stone, and it’ll also strip the seasoning from a cast iron pan, if needed.
 
the only bad thing was the amount of smoke , it filled the house with a fairly heavy smoke , so much so that i set up fans to blow it out the doors.
i wonder just how hot the oven gets during the cleaning cycle ?
my guess would be somewhere around 700-800 degrees
 
grumpyoldman said:
the only bad thing was the amount of smoke , it filled the house with a fairly heavy smoke , so much so that i set up fans to blow it out the doors.
i wonder just how hot the oven gets during the cleaning cycle ?
my guess would be somewhere around 700-800 degrees
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More than hot enough to melt lead. 800 to 1000 degrees F.
 
blades said:
More than hot enough to melt lead. 800 to 1000 degrees F.
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I've only had to use mine once -- after a removing a pizza from the oven failure.** It worked very well. I was surprised.

CD

** pizza slid off the peel, and did a perfect flip to land sauce and cheese side down on the hot oven door. :facepalm:Followed by excessive profanity.
 
caseydog said:
** pizza slid off the peel, and did a perfect flip to land sauce and cheese side down on the hot oven door. :facepalm:Followed by excessive profanity.
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I used to use a wooden peel, dust it with a little cornmeal because those grains are like little BB’s and they sort of roll, making it easier, in theory, to cleaning launch a pizza. One little corner sticking, though, and it doesn’t matter, it’s not going.

That’s when I started using parchment paper - shape and dress the pizza on the parchment paper, lift them both onto the peel, onto the stone, and a few minutes later, just reach in and yank the paper out from under the pizza. Not a problem.

However, the first time I did that, I didn’t fully appreciate how slick parchment paper is, and in one smooth motion, I went to launch the pizza off the peel, which by this time I was using a metal peel, and that pizza took off like it was nitro fueled, flying off the peel, across the oven, and SPLAT!!! right up against the back wall, which has a fan, with all the little openings and all that.
 
TastyReuben said:
I used to use a wooden peel, dust it with a little cornmeal because those grains are like little BB’s and they sort of roll, making it easier, in theory, to cleaning launch a pizza. One little corner sticking, though, and it doesn’t matter, it’s not going.

That’s when I started using parchment paper - shape and dress the pizza on the parchment paper, lift them both onto the peel, onto the stone, and a few minutes later, just reach in and yank the paper out from under the pizza. Not a problem.

However, the first time I did that, I didn’t fully appreciate how slick parchment paper is, and in one smooth motion, I went to launch the pizza off the peel, which by this time I was using a metal peel, and that pizza took off like it was nitro fueled, flying off the peel, across the oven, and SPLAT!!! right up against the back wall, which has a fan, with all the little openings and all that.
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I was actually removing my pizza when it decided it really wanted to commit suicide on a hot oven door, instead of being eaten to death.

BTW, I have a saying that I use multiple times a day, "Everything wants to be on the floor."

CD
 
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