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By Diane Greeter

HOW TO CLEAN OVEN

KEEPING a new range clean, or
cleaning up an old one, has
always been a major problem for
most housewives. Meat cooked
without fat is almost always taste-
less. Meat baked slowly will get
tough. When fat is subjected to
this fast cooking process it will
splatter and splash over the inside
of the oven. The result is a coat-
ing of grease which must be re-
moved as soon as the oven is cool
if one is to keep the appliance
clean.

Do not use any abrasive ma-
terial in cleaning any part of the
range. The manufacturers put on
a surface which is a first cousin to
glass. If you scratch tiny lines into
this surface, it will produce fine
cracks or check marks later. A
good strong soap solution will re-
move the grease easily, but do not
use it until the range is cool. Put-
ting cold water on this surface will
break it, just as your glassware
will break if you put it in boiling
water and then into ice cold water.

If the grease is not cleaned off
and successive coats are allowed
to remain, the whole will bake into
a new and dirty surface as hard as
baked enamel. To remove this, put
a cup of strong ammonia in the
oven overnight with the door tight-
ly closed. In the morning most of
the hard grease will be loose and
can be easily washed off.