Wise Tip: Clean Your Oven Now, Before the Holidays

Before you know it, you’ll be making your to-do list and shopping list for Thanksgiving. One item to add to the list is to clean your oven well in advance of the holiday season. This advice is coming from Diamond Certified’s appliance experts, Paul Gwilliam and Chris Wilhelmsen, co-owners of Asien’s Appliance, Inc.  They get overwhelmed with service calls Thanksgiving week from people who’ve used the self-cleaning feature on their ovens.

When you use the self-cleaning function of your oven, the temperature heats up to 800-900 degrees for a few hours. The high heat might trip the safety thermostat, which can cause the oven to shut down. The door may lock shut or the oven may not heat up at all when this happens. You could also set off smoke alarms. Asien’s recommendation is to do your oven cleaning well in advance of the holiday, so that if something goes wrong, you won’t be scrambling to get an appliance repair done during one of the busiest weeks of the year.