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SMoody 
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 1:18pm |
and how long does it take you?
Cleaned ours this morning and boy took about 2 hours. 
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MyMinis
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 1:22pm |
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i do mine once a week day after i cook a roast.
i use jif (i hate the smell of oven cleaner) and mine takes all of 15mins to clean. i only started cleaning so often once i had kids as i knew if i left it to long i would never have enough time to clean it
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 1:27pm |
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The people that lived here before we brought it didn't clean it when they moved and it really needs to be done thats my job this weekend I keep putting it off I hate cleaning ovens. I spray it with oven cleaner leave it over night and it normally takes 30mins to cleans after it's had a good soak.
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 1:27pm |
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This will make me look bad.. but thus far in this house... never! lol... we have been here a year...
We see no point. We don't do roasts and very rarely use the inside of the oven and when we do it's only pizza or something like that so there is really no point in cleaning it when it doesn't get dirty
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 1:28pm |
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Hhahaha, must something in the air...!!!
I am currently cleaning my ovens today! (yes ovens!!! we have a full one and a half one... )
We have those ones where you just have to clean the base (has selfcleaning sides)..
So I just clean them whenever they are dirty, generally about once a month, plus I dont use the oven heaps...And the bonus of having two is when one is dirty, I just use the other!!!
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nikkitheknitter
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 1:42pm |
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Oven cleaning typically coincides with a flat inspection. So maybe bi-annually? Usually less! it's just such a PITA!!
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 2:23pm |
About every 2 years here, I use oven cleaner but it STINKS! And I can only use it when I'm not pg (oh dear how sad  )
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 2:27pm |
Ha ha I did mine last wednesday, and before that it was early november. We would usually do it every 6 months maybe, but we procrastinated as neither of us like doing it. Tokk about half and hour? Was only a basic job, and I will do a more thorough clean in a few weeks. 
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mummy_becks
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 2:54pm |
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Never, we have the oldest gas oven in the world and I ain't cleaning it of fear it will never work again.
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 3:37pm |
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I did mine on Sat...and then it blew up. Ok, I'm being dramatic but there was a lot of noise and bright sparks etc. The lesson here...cleaning is dangerous! Lol. We need a new oven now :(
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 3:46pm |
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Been here for a year, last saturday. Cleaned once, took half an hour.
I figure that I have a can of oven cleaner and that it works by osmosis...
Lazy girl.
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 3:50pm |
Cleaned it a few weeks ago when we moved in. Had to clean it THREE times to get all the grime off from the last people who lived here I used oven cleaner as nothing else would have taken that muck off, felt really sick afterwards.
I won't be cleaning it again until we leave here 
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 3:59pm |
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It's surely not often enough, but I usually end up cleaning it when the oven gets a bit smokey smelling.. Doesn't take that long though as it's a new oven so nothing is really caked on yet.
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 4:15pm |
Every 6 months or so, and it always takes me ages too. Not so much because it is so dirty, more so that I am paranoid about leaving any trace of oven cleaner in there and poisoning us all! 
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 4:18pm |
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havent cleaned mine in probably close to a year!!
But in saying that normally ever 6months, but then i found out i was pregnant (loving that excuse right now) and MW has advised me not to use oven cleaner.
wouldnt even think about getting DH to do it for me!
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 5:16pm |
Ours gets done for landlord inspection so every 4 months, but if mum is coming over it gets a big sparkly clean, about every 2 years 
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 5:55pm |
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 6:01pm |
Ovens need cleaning?
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Posted: 09 July 2007 at 6:39pm |
I'm pretty sure I have a self-cleaning oven
I only clean ours maybe once a year, I never cook roasts, and always give the bottom and doors a wipeout whenever they get slightly dirty. But yeah, the oven cleaner only comes out once a year.
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How often do you clean your oven?
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