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How to clean the oven efficiently? Or how to avoid it to get dirty? I was looking at my oven that has a self cleaning function but turns out it is super high heat for 8 hours?

Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

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This event was on September 24, 2024

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to course-specific questions, to how to turn your cooking passion into profit or simply hearing the perspective of a professional chef, Chef Dan is ready to answer them all.

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Question

ingrid ortega

How to clean the oven efficiently? Or how to avoid it to get dirty? I was looking at my oven that has a self cleaning function but turns out it is super high heat for 8 hours?

Answer

Yeah, that is true. Um, I have to admit, I've never used a self-cleaning oven, uh, or function on any oven I've ever used, um, quite honestly, 'cause it's just super duper high heat for eight hours and it locks the doors and everything. And that just kind of scares me a little bit. So anything I, anytime I've ever done it, what I've done is put, uh, like a hotel pan or just a pan of water in the oven, turn it on for a little bit, take, uh, let that kind of steam bath, kind of moisten everything in the oven, take that out and then get on my hands and knees and scrub it from the inside with a, like a scrub brush. Um, you know, uh, um, a sponge that has kind of a rigid edge on the outside of it as well too. Um, and that's typically how I clean it. Um, you know, that's, it's kind of old school, but it works well. Um, and, you know, uh, how to avoid getting it dirty is basically avoiding spills, which nobody can do. Things are going to happen and that's just part of cooking and that's okay.

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

*Dan Marek* is a chef educator who has been teaching vegan and vegetarian cooking for over 15 years. At Rouxbe, he is our Director of Plant-Based Culinary and Development where he helps develop content, classes and builds courses for many of our partners. Dan is a board member of Slow Food Austin, the Institute of Child Nutrition, and Conscious Capitalism. He has earned his BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and holds certificates in Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to his role with Rouxbe, Dan worked with Whole Kids Foundation training teachers and food service at schools across the country on nutrition and culinary best practices. He also worked as a Healthy Eating Educator at Whole Foods Market’s flagship store in Austin, TX, was a personal chef for some of Austin’s elite business people, taught classes in culinary techniques at Austin Community College, The Natural Epicurean, and Le Cordon Bleu. Dan also regularly volunteers cooking or speaking about nutrition for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Marathon Kids, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas.