How to clean glass oven door - why NOT to use baking soda and vinegar

CLEANING your oven is laborious and the oven glass is never as shiny as you'd like. Here's how to clean oven glass and why NOT to use baking soda and vinegar.

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The glass doors on the oven quickly become covered with grease and grime, but that's easily solved with a quick clean. Hacks from online cleaning gurus might tell you to use baking soda and white vinegar, but you shouldn't do this. Express.co.uk reveals how to clean your oven glass and why not to use baking soda and vinegar, according to cleaning expert Lauren Daly from Natrie.

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Many cleaning 'experts' will tell you to clean with a paste made from baking soda and vinegar, but they're completely wrong, it's been claimed.

Mixing baking soda and vinegar is pointless when you break down the science behind what makes the individual products good for cleaning.

Whether you're cleaning the interior of your oven or just the glass door, you're wasting your time when you use baking soda and vinegar together.

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How to clean oven glass:

How to clean oven glass: Oven glass is fragile and needs to be cleaned in a specific way (Image: Getty)

How to clean oven glass:

How to clean oven glass: What will get rid of the grime? (Image: Getty)

Baking soda and bicarbonate of soda are the same thing, but baking powder is something totally different.

Baking soda is an alkaline, making it useful in situations where you want to neutralise a bad acidic smell, get rid of a stain caused by an acid, or absorb and get rid of dirt and grime from carpets or mattresses.

Vinegar is an acid, which makes it great at breaking down limescale and polishing objects.

Vinegar has antibacterial properties so it can get rid of some nasty germs on your surfaces.

How to clean oven glass:

How to clean oven glass: Baking soda and vinegar are not a winning combination (Image: Getty)

When mixed together, baking soda and vinegar neutralise one another.

Nothing bad will happen but the effects of each product will be cancelled out. This is because the acidic white vinegar is neutralising the alkalinity of the baking soda and taking away the powers they have to dissolve grease.

Cleaning expert Lauren Daly said: "So many recipes for DIY cleaners have baking soda and vinegar in.

"There just is NO POINT doing this. Sure it's satisfying and fun because the acid and alkaline mix create carbon dioxide and it feels like you're cleaning, but the reaction will stop both agents from having any cleaning power.

"Baking soda and vinegar negate each other. It's better to use just one rather than both."

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How to clean a glass oven door

Baking soda is not a good choice for the oven door because it is abrasive and will scratch the glass.

Wiping the door with a microfibre cloth and some distilled white vinegar will do the job.

A more effective product that you can use to clean the glass oven door is Dri-Pak's liquid soda crystals.

How to clean oven glass:

How to clean oven glass: White vinegar will do the job alone, or use liquid soda crystals instead (Image: Getty)

Dri-Pak's spokesperson said: "Soda Crystals are ideal for dissolving grease and oil as well as general cleaning.

"Many people will clean their ovens with Soda Crystal and hot water and although if the build-up is light, it may be adequate.

"Tough cleaning jobs, however, benefit from the product being allowed to dwell on the surface for some time."

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    Liquid soda crystals are the perfect solution though, as the water evaporates when you mix solid soda crystals with water and they won't scratch the glass oven door.

    The expert said: "Liquid Soda Crystals is often a better alternative as the Soda Crystals are suspended in a plant-based surfactant that not only helps with the cleaning but will dwell on the surface as it has a gel-like consistency.

    Leave the liquid soda crystals on the door for at least 20 mins and wipe down with a clean cloth and hot water, rinsing the cloth regularly.

    You can get Dri-Pak's Liquid Soda Crystals from Wilko, Robert Dyas, and even on Amazon.