It's that time of year ( who am I kidding, try time of decade ) when the oven really could do with a clean, it's gotten to the " Black Hole of Calcutta " stage, but what highly corrosive, environmentally unfriendly ,cancer causing, freely available cleaner to use ?.
There was a time when the oven sported the claim of being " self cleaning " if this function ever existed in the first place, it's now long gone ( wouldn't it be fab if you could get houses that were self cleaning ?) so anything goes.

So what's worked on your oven ?, although I seriously doubt anyone's is as bad as mine, or even ones that haven't worked at all, so at least I know which ones to avoid.
Many thanks in advance.

I'm going to do mine with oven pride tomorrow. I've used it before and it works a treat on my oven (check yours is suitable as not all are). Ensure you wear the gloves as it does burn skin and I'm talking from experience on that.
You can use it on shelves and they come up like new.

I enquired a short while ago with a specialist oven cleaning company.....double oven with glass door was £40!

My in law had theirs done by the same company and said it was a brilliant job and well worth it.

I just haven't got around to booking it yet, but it's definately on my to do list.

I can't be bothered with all that scrubbing and spraying!

I did look at a company, they charge £60 for a double, but I honestly think they'd take one look at mine and walk straight out again lol. The photos of dirty ovens on their website would be what mine looked like after being cleaned !.

My in laws used to get people in and were always pleased with the result. I think anything strong enough to get rid of all the detritus that collects in an oven won't be very environmentally friendly.

My oven has a self clean setting and gets up to volcanic temperatures, burns it all off which works a treat.

I have recently moved and have a range cooker. I don't think had been cleaned since the day it was installed.  I tried oven pride (used it before on my son's oven when he moved) and it worked a treat and it came up looking like new, burt on mine it hardly touched it.  Had it professionally cleaned and it is lovely and shiny.  Was a little worried that they wouldn't be able to do it but he said he had seen worse!  Give the oven pride a go it won't do any harm

Oven Pride is easy to get too, I'll give it a bash tomorrow :)

Have found oven pride works really well when I've used it - but be careful with your skin! :)

I enquired a short while ago with a specialist oven cleaning company.....double oven with glass door was £40!

I did this a year or so ago but was quoted twice that for our double oven - if I'd been quoted £40, I'd have been there!

Which reminds, me, I must do my lower oven - chicken roast last Monday left it's mark.   The current product I'm using is Mr.Muscle.   Spray and leave on, doors closed, for no longer than 30 mins.   And use gloves to wipe off.   It doesn't mention pets, but says use in a 'well ventilated area', so I make sure the back door is open, and the oven doors shut.

I've been using those roasting bags recently for whole chicken ( and anything else I can think of ) they really cut down on the mess.

Yep oven pride here too. I do each oven in different days so I leave it on for two or three days. It more or less washes off then. That reminds me I have left the grill moa am outside wrapped in sainsburys bag all week! Lol I put the stuff on with rubber gloves use my fingers to get it on the rungs and it to nooks and crannies.

Glass doors are fairly easy to do yourself, if it's the stuff on the inside - some cleaning spray and fine grade wire wool + a bit of elbow grease.

>I'll give it a bash tomorrow

Please can you pop round my house after?    :-)

Lol Jean, after my trials yesterday, I'm surprised I didn't need a trip to A&E !.

Mrs T, I would have needed a pneumatic drill to get some of the crud off, never mind elbow grease lol.

I ended up buying stuff called Oven Mate, and Oven Mate Just for Racks, from Lakeland, as I happened to be in and saw it.
The Just for Racks, was a bit of a disaster, it comes with two heavy duty bags to put the fluid and racks in, you then leave it to do it's magic.
After two hours I went to check how things were progressing, only to find the fluid had leaked out of the bags all over the table !.
Made a right mess, thankfully it's an old table and can be fixed with a bit of sanding.
The oven cleaner itself was easy to apply, it's a gel that you paint on, I left it overnight and have just cleaned it off.
The results are pretty good, there is a patch on the bottom, which I'll do again tomorrow, but most of the oven is now sparkling.
Thankfully you do get quite a lot of the cleaner, if I'd had a single oven I could have had two cleanings out of it.

If you want something simple for racks, trays or anything else you can remove,  soak in biological washing powder over night and the crud just wipes off.

I just had a lovely email from Lakeland offering me a full refund for my failed rack cleaner......cheers Lakeland :).