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 ...

Your oven's self-cleaning feature uses extreme heat to burn off food. Those high temperatures require precautions to protect ...

Self-cleaning features on ovens, which can be confusing and even controversial, were developed in the early 1960s for both gas and electric ovens, though the term “self-cleaning” is actually something ...

Every oven (convection or conventional) carries its own little myth. And what about that "mysterious" self-cleaning option? Some people think the self-clean button hides a squad of tiny scrubbers ...

The self-cleaning function of an oven offers convenience but has some drawbacks. The self-cleaning function in ovens uses either high heat or steam to clean the interior by loosening spills and ...

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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MAY NOT ALWAYS BE THE HERO YOU EXPECT. BETWEEN BOILING, BROILING, AND BAKING, EXPERTS AND CONSUMER REPORTS RANGE LAB ALSO PUT EVERY OVEN’S SELF-CLEAN CYCLE TO THE TEST. THEY RATE HOW A TOUGH, BAKED ON ...

The self-clean cycle might be your stove’s most feared and revered feature, depending on whom you ask. The allure? A self-cleaning oven gets the cavity squeaky clean without a drop of chemical cleaner ...