How to use a lemon to clean your oven in seconds without ANY scrubbing
- An Australian mum has used the juice and pulp from a lemon to clean her oven
- Posting on Facebook, Ilone said she was very impressed with the results
- She spread the lemon onto the oven and left it for 25 minutes before wiping it off
- The sparkling results amazed other social media users on Facebook too
While baking powder and vinegar are commonly used to naturally clean appliances and areas in the house, a mum has shared how she transformed her dirty oven using half a lemon and a cloth.
Mum Ilone shared before and after images to the Mums Who Clean Facebook group – which has more than 264,000 members across Australia – and said she was impressed with the results.
‘Using only fresh lemon, I’m impressed. I cleaned my entire oven with it,’ she said online.
While baking powder and vinegar are commonly used together to clean appliances and areas in the house, a mum has shared how she cleaned her dirty oven using half a lemon
Ilone said she applied the lemon juice and pulp across every surface of the oven and let it sit for 25 minutes.
She then rubbed the oven down with a damp pink cleaning cloth to remove the grease and food stains with ease.
Other social media users part of the Facebook group were also amazed at the sparkling results.
Ilone said she applied the lemon across every surface of the oven and let it sit for 25 minutes before wiping it off with a pink cleaning cloth
‘Oh great! I will try this!! Thank you for sharing,’ one woman said.
‘Sounds way too easy!’ another said in disbelief.
A third added: ‘I do that with my shower it gets all soap scum and glass squeaky clean. I will try the oven next time.’
‘Add some salt to the lemon and it will scrub anything,’ a fourth suggested.
In the past other mums have shared their go-to tactics for cleaning their greasy ovens too.
In the past other mums have also shared their go-to tactics for cleaning their greasy ovens
Another woman posted images online saying she choose to use the $7.50 Fairy Dishwashing Easy Spray.
‘Never endorsed a product but this stuff is amazing! My oven was disgusting and I sprayed this stuff on the door,’ the woman wrote online alongside before and after pictures of her oven.
The mum said she opted to use the dishwashing spray because she ‘didn’t have time to clean it with ‘proper’ oven cleaner.
The Fairy product can be bought from Coles, Woolworths or other leading supermarkets and is available in different scents.