Green Busters

In my mission towards making GREEN baby steps, I thought what better way to test the waters than with cleaning my oven. I hereby submit picture 1 into evidence:

Now while this isn't actually my oven (because I didn't think about blogging for this until halfway through the process), this is a PERFECT example of just how disgustingly dirty my oven was with caked on spills of (cheese, cake batter, bubbly goodness from my past award winner meals). It was so bad that I knowingly ignored the fact that it needed cleaning every time I opened it. Mostly because I can't stand the odor of traditional store oven cleaners that my mom used to poison us with. I mean dang if I can't feel my eyes or nose hairs when walking in the house, THAT can't be good for the health of my loved ones. A regular scrubbing sponge was NOT doing the trick.

So I finally stopped my procrastination and busted out my trusty household staples: baking soda and white vinegar! I thoroughly covered the whole oven with baking soda, let it sit for a bit, then poured vinegar over it on the bottom of the oven. It instantly starts bubbling so a little can go a long way. I let it sit for a couple of hours and here's what we got: I submit picture 2 into evidence.This picture doesn't do justice because I opened the oven and my jaw dropped! I simply took my PAPER TOWEL and wiped with no problem at all. I did one more application for shear enjoyment. Picture 3 for evidence:

Walahhh!! Now the leftover spots are me being lazy and not wanting to put elbow grease to scrub these caked on patches. But as you can see it works, is shiny, and best of all ODOR free!! So for all my pregnant mommas (everyone else too of course) get rid of those oven cleaners and give the babies a healthy start in life :)