How clean is your oven? Help!

He's currently buying a replacement integral dishwasher and having it fitted.
He hates washing up!

Jalima1108 You have echoed my first thoughts-buy a new one. This is the plan very soon.
I've heard of those oven cleaners where you put the trays in a bag. From the comments they seem quite successful.

It's the job I hate most in the world so when we moved here last year and installed a new kitchen I got a self cleaning one. Bliss!

Oh. Can you clean ovens?

I cleaned the oven in the flat my son lets out after his last tenants left and it was seriously minging. I used oven pride the one you put in a bag and leave to soak. Well due to how filthy it was I left it soaking for a week, which it clearly needed as not everything came off. I then put it through the dishwasher and it still wasn't clean, so bought a second oven pride and put it in soak again for about 3 days and it was then sparkling. I must admit I wasn't best pleased with the tenant as the oven was only a year old and looked nearer 30 years old but Oven pride worked it's magic eventually and with very little elbow grease tbf.

Mine hasn't been cleaned for years, apart from the bit that shows. (Slattern that I am!)
I keep telling myself that i'll get a company in to clean it..

Since acquiring a halogen oven my main one never gets too bad (I find reasons to avoid using it!) A couple of times a year Oven Pride does a good job but in this situation I 'd call in the professionals!

I'm just lazy!

Witzend I'm with you, get someone in. Fortunately I am allergic to lots of strong cleaning products (asthma, Hayfever and skin allergies) so I have an excuse

Professional company at this stage then he can keep on top of it

Otherwise, I would get the professionals in.

I cleaned ours recently [smug] having put off doing it for ages.

However, it's not as perfect as I would like (can't get to the roof very well), but it's £60+ round here to have it professionally cleaned so I'd rather put that towards buying a new oven at some future date.

I think you mean Ovenpride Witzend - I used that and the racks came out perfectly clean and sparkling.
Hope that's not advertising

Could he afford a new one gmelon - your own grease etc is one thing, but someone's else's is, well, yuk!

I'd get the professionals in too.

I once had a pro in - best 40 odd quid I ever spent! They used Astonish - and I assume a lot of elbow grease - more than I was prepared to use, anyway.

More recently I bought one of those kits where you put the oven trays in a bag with the cleaning fluid, and spread another lot over the inside. Forget the name. Worked reasonably well.