Continual cleaning v/s Self Cleaning oven Which is better?

There are cases where a built-in microwave can make sense, so I see your point. The problem with built-in microwaves is that they are expensive, expensive to repair, they aren't any bigger/better than a counter top one. In fact, the ones I looked at were smaller, crappier than a $150 counter top one, while costing $1000. If the counter top one blows up, you just chuck it and get a new one. I have the counter space and having two conventional ovens has advantages so it made sense for me.

On 08/11/2015 12:31 PM, trader_4 wrote: ...

That's the point; this isn't what you're thinking of a second small microwave unit; the unit is in the regular oven and so is as large as it is (which is a full-size oven in a standard 30" free-standing range).

Thus it takes _zero_ extra space and can be used simultaneously with the oven which makes things like baking potatoes and the like a dual-edged sword...otoh, it does make just "nuking" a cuppa' coffee tougher if the oven is in use for something else, but that's a compromise we've become well adjusted to.

There is, afaik, nobody still making them (and I don't know that anybody but GE ever did). Mom saw this one when she was substitute teaching in home ec at the high school and it was the new dealer-supplied one in the home ec kitchen.

I've stockpiled a replacement magnetron; other specific parts are getting difficult or impossible owing to its age.

I've never seen one of those, only the typical dual ovens where you get one microwave, one regular oven.

Not many have... :) I don't know how long they were in production; this one was purchased in 1978 by the invoice date.

with such old microwave. put in a pitcher of water run it at full power, and check with a small fluroscent light bulb .........

if it lights you have a leak

Yeah, I couldn't tell what you were talking about until I read several posts.

So the oven door latches like a microwave door latches? And you can run the microwaves at the same time you're broiling a steak, or baking a cake? And they get microwaved too?

That turns out to be listed as self-cleaniing, not contiuous. And convection.

Google will do that, find a different word from what's asked.

This week, a couple folks tried the self cleaning feature on my church's electric range and oven. The clouds of smoke set off the smoke detector.

I'm on the call list for when the alarm comes in. The alarm company calls me.

LOL.

Well, I managed to poke a hole in one of the disposeable broiling trays, without noticign it, and now there a big puddle of grease in the bottom of my oven.

Should I just let the self-cleaning thng burn it away, or should I try to spoon it out?

micky posted for all of us...

Bernz O' Matic

On Mon 10 Aug 2015 09:06:54p, Tony Hwang told us...

Perhaps not now, but at one time they did. IIRC, it was during the

They were found in various formats including larger toaster ovens, countertop convection ovens, and conventional ranges. The oven cavities were coated in some type of dull-finished, semi-rough porcelain. Apparently, typical spatters from roasting, etc., would be vaporized over time by this coating. Serious spills, OTOH, would need to be cleaned up using detergent and water.

I once lived in a brand new apartment that had a brand new gas range that had this feature. It was *not* a self-cleaning oven, and the instructions cautioned against using conventioinal oven cleaners. I noticed that I never had to clean the walls of the oven, except for the glass window in the door, although I did have to clean up a few bottom spills.

Unfortunately I cannot find an exmple nor remember the brand of stove I had, but they did exist at one time.

I also owned a Farberware contertop convection oven that had this feature. This was also during the 70s.

My current electric range has a self-cleaning convection oven that also has the "easy clean" feature. The oven has a solid bottom with no exposed heating elements. To use the easy clean feature, one puts a measured aount of water in the bottom of the oven and runs a heating cycle. When cool enough to work with, the interior is wiped down. This really amounts to nothing more than steam cleaning.

replying to RC, Ruth wrote: I have had a continuous cleaning oven 43 years, I have never cleaned my oven, and it looks great. No believes I have never cleaned it. I clean glass door and racks that is all.

Following up on an 11 year old thread, it is was that good they would still be making them. I never like outs, glad it is long gone.

I had a continuous clean oven for 25 years it was a Kenmore I bought new in 1973 I never had to lean it just periodically take out the racks and clean them in the bathtub and of course clean the glass window but as far as the oven I was told not to use the store bought oven cleaners on it or sos because it would ruin the continuous clean coating on it but I loved it I have never had to clean an oven since I bought that stove now I have a self cleaning so guess I’ll never have to lol

We bought one about the same time. Not really that good. Self cleaning much better.

I have a self cleaning oven now but have never used the cleaning cycle. My cleaning lady takes care of it makes it look like new, inside and out. Get yourself a good cleaning lady.