The self-cleaning function is convenient, but it can also wear the oven out. Here are some common mistakes you might be ...

When shopping for an oven, you may come across two similar-sounding features: self-cleaning and steam-cleaning. Both make it easier to clean your oven, but each uses a different method.

Self-cleaning ovens are designed to make life easier, eliminating the need for harsh cleaners and vigorous scrubbing. Just hit the self-clean mode and it’ll do the dirty job for you, right?

Keeping your oven's interior can be a challenge, depending on what you cook. Here are 6 steps for deep cleaning your oven and ...

Ideally, you should clean your oven the same day the spills occur—steam cleaning is most effective with fresh spills.

CR’s in-house range experts offer their take on what might be your stove's most hotly debated feature Some folks would rather manually scrub away tough messes than activate an oven's self-clean ...

The allure? A self-cleaning oven gets the cavity squeaky clean without a drop of chemical cleaner—and without much elbow grease. It achieves this feat by heating to temperatures north of 800 ...

Repairman Sidney Karam says new models of ovens and other household appliances are breaking down far sooner than they should.

Baked-on grease is one of the toughest messes to tackle in the kitchen, but a clean oven makes cooking more enjoyable and ...

"A clean oven certainly performs better, as the residue at the bottom doesn't build up and cause smoking," Tarandushko says. One of the most simple options is to use the self-cleaning function ...

(For double wall ovens, based on results from upper oven.) A gauge of the oven self-cleaning cycle's effectiveness at removing a baked-on mixture of eggs, lard, cherry-pie filling, cheese ...

If you're reading this and smugly thinking, "I have a self-cleaning oven," well, don't be too sure of yourself. The self-cleaning function is great if your oven is just slightly dirty. But if it's ...