Caring for Your Oven

Your oven is the hub and life of your kitchen. Whether baking delicious cakes or bread, roasting family favourites or cooking other sweet and savoury dishes, we can all agree that a good, well-functioning oven is a staple of the modern household. Naturally, you’ll want to keep your oven in excellent condition so you can keep on turning out nutritious, mouth-watering meals. It’s hardly fun to have your oven break down and have to ask to use your neighbour’s – or worse, resort to buying greasy stodge from takeaway shops.

The good news is, there are many ways that you can clean and maintain your oven, therefore prolonging its useful life, long before you need to call your local specialists for oven repairs.

First, let’s go over some commonly known oven issues:

• • Faulty ignition and gas supply
• • Heating malfunctions
• • Uneven distribution of heat inside the oven
• • Heat dissipation due to problematic doors or locking mechanism
• • Years of use causes wear and tear

Now that you know the common causes of ovens malfunctioning, here are some things you can do to clean and maintain your oven and extend its usefulness:

• • Regularly check that your oven burners are clean
• • Air helps fuel the flames so maintain a balance with the mixture of air and gas
• • The good old combination of water, cloth and soap is still the best way to clean your oven
• • Using fiber brush or a sponge is also good for cleaning the oven
• • Try a home-made cleaning solution which is a mixture of magnesium oxide, amonia, French chalk/powdered pumice and water in cleaning baked-on food
• • Do not use materials that will scratch the insides of your oven, only use soft cloth or brush

Taking good care of your oven and other household appliances can increase their life expectancy by 30-40%. If, however, you find your oven in need of some professional love and care, then our friendly technicians at Wollongong Service Company are at your service.