What’s the difference between steam clean and self-clean oven?

First and foremost, don’t leave your oven unattended during self-cleaning. You should plan to be in your home for the entire duration of the cleaning cycle to keep an eye on it and make sure everything is operating as planned. The next most important rules for oven self-cleaning involve ventilation.

The main difference between a self-cleaning oven and a steam cleaning oven is the steam cleaning function only heats your oven to about 250 degrees Fahrenheit, while the self-cleaning function requires your oven to heat to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Clean the removable parts using warm water, washing up liquid and a sponge. Wipe dry with a clean and dry cloth. Remove any dirt from the outside of the oven using warm water and washing up liquid, and a soft cloth or sponge. Wipe dry with a clean and dry cloth.

How does a Pyrolytic Oven work? Pyrolytic Self-Cleaning is easy to use and requires minimal effort. Simply choose your preferred cleaning programme, and the oven’s temperature will rise to up to 485 degrees, turning any baking, roasting or grilling residue into a small pile of ash for you to simply wipe away.

Remove all the racks, rails and baking trays from within the oven. Mix a couple of drops of dishwashing liquid with 400mls water. Pour the water mixture into the bottom of your oven. Turn on your oven and press home, then flick through the settings until you get to EasyClean.

In your oven, the rear wall, sides and ceiling are coated with a patented porous, matte ceramic material to make them self-cleaning surfaces. This coating absorbs and breaks down splashes from grilling, baking and roasting while the oven is in operation.

The Pyrolytic self-cleaning function makes scrubbing the oven a thing of the past. With the touch of a button, you can reduce the food deposits and grease in your oven to ash, waiting to be simply wiped away.

NEFF Slide&Hide Ovens with Pyrolytic Self-Cleaning take away the hassle and worry of having to manually scrub your oven clean using harsh detergents. With the simple press of a button, you can have a gleaming oven cavity in just over 1 hour.

Depending on how often you cook, you’ll need to do a pyrolytic clean every second month, and it’s also a good idea to clean up spills and large bits of food as soon as you can to avoid them getting baked on in the first place.

IMPORTANT For all Pyrolytic clean models, the oven must be installed as a flush fit (Figure A) to the surrounding cupboards and the infill panel MUST not exceed 100mm in length. This ensures a 16mm gap is maintained between the cabinet and side of the appliance to prevent the cupboard overheating.

Once the oven has cooled, simply wipe the residue away with a cloth. The whole process only takes 1-2 hours depending on the degree of soiling, there are three cleaning programmes to choose from: Light residue approx. 1 hour, 15 minutes.

Add white vinegar to baking soda which will create a natural cleaning paste (no need to use any harsh chemicals) and rub inside the oven. Leave it for a good half hour to sink in, and then simply wipe away the dirt and residue quickly and easily. Use an old toothbrush.

If you accidentally left the racks in while cleaning your oven, you may be able to restore the lubrication on the edge of your racks to make them easier to slide. Try wiping the tracks and guides in your oven with a steel wool pad, but the pads should stay soapy the entire time you’re working.

Pyrolytic ovens operate just like regular electric ovens for most of the time, able to clean their interior when the mode is selected. Catalytic ovens (another type of self-cleaning oven) on the other hand are lined with catalytic panels, which are designed to make cleaning inside the cavity much easier.

The main benefit of a pyrolytic oven is that it cleans itself! The oven does this using a pyrolytic programme that increases the temperature of the oven cavity to approximately 500’C. These extremely high temperatures incinerate the grease and cooking residue left behind by cooking, turning them into ash.