Have you ever wondered what the best way is to clean the smoothtop surface on your range and cooktop? We’re about to show you how. We’d gathered some step by step instructions from the industry leaders, but when we saw this You Tube Video from GE we threw out our written directions in favor of the much better video directions just click the below link:

Cleaning your Smoothtop Ceran Surface

Universal Appliance and Kitchen Center
12025 Ventura Blvd. Ste B-105
Studio City, CA 91604
PH 877 696-2987

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How would you like to be able to clean your oven with very little bother as often as you’d like so that it always looked nice? Whirlpool has a new oven cleaning system that allows you to clean your oven using only water and some heat to steam clean the oven. There are no harsh chemicals and very little energy is required. The trick is to clean the oven frequently – ie. whenever it gets dirty from usage.

Using only a cup and a quarter of water in the bottom of the oven during a cleaning cycle, the oven creates some steam softens any lightly baked on material or soil which then is easy to wipe up. It’s a clever idea, very effective, environmentally friendly and energy saving.

To find out what ovens and ranges have this nifty feature visit Universal Appliance and Kitchen Center at 12050 Ventura Blvd. Suite B-105, Studio City, CA 91604 PH 877 696-2982.

Tips for cleaning your oven. There are 3 types of oven interiors. self-cleaning, continuous cleaning, and conventional cleaning.

Self-cleaning ovens are also described as pyrolytic ovens. They have a cleaning cycle whereby the oven locks and the interior temperature reaches very high heat and turns any baked on materials sticking to the oven interior into ash. The ash can be easily swept out of the oven after the cleaning cycle. Before cleaning remove the oven racks and any loose material and follow the oven instructions. Typically, this means the oven will lock for 2, 3, or 4 hours for light, medium, or heavy soil. At the end of the cycle and after cool down the oven will unlock so that you may brush out the ash. Then wipe the oven with a soft damp cloth.

Continuous cleaning ovens, often referred to as catalytic ovens, have an oven coating that will absorb and spread minor spills. Large spills need to be removed and wiped off to prevent staining the oven cavity. Never use any abrasive material or commercial oven cleaner in a continuous cleaning oven.

Conventional or standard cleaning ovens have neither a self-cleaning cycle nor a continuous cleaning coating. There are 2 ways to clean a standard cleaning oven. The first method we recognize as “elbow grease”. An easier way is to use a commercial oven cleaning product. These are typically caustic chemicals so wear oven gloves and make sure that there is adequate ventilation so that your eyes are protected, and you are not overcome with fumes.

We’ll cover the cleaning of really dirty oven racks in a future posting. Next Spring Cleaning post will be the dishwasher.