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 ...

Pyrolytic models are said to be the gold standard in self-cleaning ovens. They work by generating a ridiculously hot heat (usually in the region of 500°C) which incinerates any bits of stubborn grease ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

The simplest method involves boiling a pot of water in the oven and steaming the interior for 30 minutes.

The cleaning lasts about 40 minutes. After numerous cycles I can definitely say that the oven does not self clean. I called Whirlpool who own Maytag, and was told that I would have to clean the ...