I’m a natural kind of gal.  And I’m cheap.

Around the house, I tend to use homemade cleaners.  I have spray bottles of vinegar and bleach.

I make laundry soap for our HE washer.  We have rags instead of paper towels, and yes I even have reusable baby wipes on hand.

We’re all cozy and green and crunchy like.  (Green- as in the dollars I save!)

But if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that cleaning my stove is my housewife kryptonite.

I’ve tried natural cleaning I found on Pinterest. Fail.  Vinegar? Fail. I’ve soaked the burners in ammonia, and set pans of it inside the oven overnight.  I even tried using Tide (got that tip from How Clean is Your House.) Meh.

Well, we have a self cleaning oven.  But, it takes hours and heats up the house. Also, I just don’t think it cleans the oven that well.

Fast forward to Easter.  We dye eggs. Lots and lots of eggs – I usually boil up 5-6 dozen in the hopes of getting at least 4 dozen uncracked ones (that’s 6 each for the kids to color).  Well, that takes freaking forever. So when I saw that my friend Melissa bakes hers, I thought- GENIUS!

So I baked a dozen eggs, just to try. And oh, my friends.  They came out of the oven spotted and brown. Because that’s how dirty my oven was.  It was disgusting. (For what it’s worth, the baking worked great and they tasted fine once the eggs were peeled.)

Something had to be done.   I was desperate.  My stove burners were black and brown and the inside of my oven was a horrible mess.

So I tried something new.

And it worked.   It was so easy.  The inside of my oven is beautiful now (or it will be after I figure out how to get the racks back inside.
I did say it was the EASIEST cleaning method.  You spray, you go to bed, in the morning you simply wipe it away.  Could. Not. Be. Easier.

I know.  I should hang my head in shame, having succumbed to the siren song of modern technology and chemicals.

But, sometimes I just need the stove to be clean.  

Sometimes I just need it done, quickly, easily, with a minimum of fuss.

And I’m not going to feel guilty about it, and that’s okay.

Do you have any dirty little housekeeping secrets?  {Pun totally intended!}

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