Damage to your oven is not the only potential danger in running a self-clean cycle. The Bob Vila website warns that high-heat and steam self-cleaning ovens might expose you to carbon monoxide.

Touching the oven at any time during the four-to-six-hour self-cleaning cycle can cause severe burns. In the oven user manual ...

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 ...

If you’re staring down a dirty oven, running the self-cleaning cycle might seem like a no-brainer. In the best ranges, there really isn’t anything quite like it, which locks the oven door shut and ...

Ovens tend to get a lot of use during the holidays, and between drips, drops, and turkey basting spills, they can get fairly dirty. And they may not get cleaned very often—in a survey by the American ...

In her video, “The Dangers of Self Clean: Part 1!” Renae speaks directly to her followers, cautioning, “Do not use the self-clean function on your oven.” She elaborates on the dangers, saying, “The ...

Remember the holidays? Maybe you did lots of baking and roasting - perhaps even a turkey or two. Now raise your hand if you have cleaned your oven since then. Or since LAST Thanksgiving, for that ...

Do you ever find yourself wishing that your house could just...clean itself? Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work that way—but there is at least one thing in your home that actually does: your oven!

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