I Stopped Scrubbing My Oven at 60 The Overnight Aussie Nan Trick

If you've ever poured vinegar onto baking soda in your oven and watched it fizz, I've got news for you, love. A chemist at Virginia Tech says the two mostly cancel each other out. 🧪 I'm Nanna, 68, and I've cooked in Queensland kitchens for 50 years. I haven't scrubbed my oven since the year I turned sixty, and it's cleaner now than it's ever been. It took a Christmas morning to get me there: a can of strong oven spray, a turkey, a smoke alarm, and the whole family on the front lawn in their paper hats. So here are the 8 things I was told about cleaning an oven and stovetop, and what I do now instead. You'll learn: ✅ Why the brown crust in your oven is the same thing as cast-iron seasoning ✅ The overnight baking soda paste that does the work while you sleep ✅ What's really in the strong spray, and why mine set off the smoke alarm ✅ When to run the self-clean cycle (and why never the morning of Thanksgiving) ✅ Where the racks and burner grates go so they come clean with a wipe ✅ Why foil never goes on the oven floor ✅ How to clean a glass cooktop without scratching it ✅ The one wipe after every Sunday roast that means the big job only comes round twice a year If you only do one thing tonight: mix half a cup of baking soda with a little water, spread it on the floor of your oven, close the door and go to bed. You don't need a strong arm for a clean oven, love. You only need to give it one night. The tips come from Cornell Cooperative Extension, Whirlpool's care guides, Consumer Reports, MedlinePlus (US National Library of Medicine), Lodge Cast Iron, CHOICE (Australia's consumer group) and the National Fire Protection Association. If oven cleaner gets on your skin or in your eyes, flush with water for at least 15 minutes and call Poison Help: 1-800-222-1222. 👉 Subscribe for my next video: keeping warm in winter without turning the heating up. What did they tell you about cleaning an oven that turned out to be wrong? 👇 #OvenCleaning #CleaningTips #BakingSoda #ThanksgivingPrep #KitchenCleaning #HomeHacks #AussieHome