The Only Way I Was Able to Clean My Greasy Oven Door

You may remember that time when I wrote about cleaning my (very dirty) oven. (If not, you should go back and read it. I’ll wait!) Everything came out looking pretty good — except my oven door. Despite vigorous scrubbing with baking soda and Bon Ami, the spatters wouldn’t budge (it was a rental oven, and it likely had never been cleaned before). It was frustrating and a pain that we couldn’t see through the glass into the oven.

It took me six months to revisit the problem (I know!), but I finally got the glass on my oven door looking clean and clear. So how did I do it?

When I originally asked for advice on how to deal with the embedded grease on my oven door, one Kitchn reader suggested I try out the oven and grill cleaner from Norwex, a cleaning company that sells its products through a network of consultants. She was so convinced it would work on my oven door when nothing else would that she even sent me a sample, along with a mesh pot scrubber. (Thanks, reader!)