An effortless way to clean your oven racks is to line your bathtub with dryer sheets.
Clean oven racks in tub with dryer sheets.
Add up to 1 2 cup of dishwashing soap or up to 3 4 cup laundry detergent.
You can do this one at a time or do all the racks at once.
Lay the oven racks on top of the sheets fill the tub with just enough warm water to cover the racks and add a half cup of dish soap.
The anti static properties in dryer sheets help remove the baked on gunk from the metal racks.
Cleaning oven racks with dryer sheets is one of the easiest ways and requires the least amount of effort.
Just how does this work.
Fill a bathtub with 5 10 dryer sheets and a half cup of dishwashing detergent the kind used for handwashing dishes in the sink then soak oven racks for several hours to allow the antistatic and fabric softening additives in the dryer sheets to soften the food.
This is very important to prevent the oven racks from scratching your bathtub.
If you usually keep any pots or pans in your oven take em out you re going to be pulling your racks out completely.
Lay down some towels.
Spread 6 8 dryer sheets out along the bottom of your bathtub then place the oven racks on top of them.
Set the racks on top of 6 8 dryer sheets in the tub.
The bond between baked on food and grime and your burners or whatever you re soaking becomes weakened by the anti static agents in dryer sheets.
Cleaning oven racks with dryer sheets.
Get your oven ready.
Drain the tub in the morning and use the soaked dryer sheets to wipe the racks clean.
Line the bottom of your bathtub with two old towels.
Allow everything to sit overnight.
An easy way to clean grill grates or oven racks is to line your bathtub with four used dryer sheets set the grill or oven racks on top and fill the tub with warm water.
The power of the antistatic in dryer sheets helps to separate the food from the grates.
Let sit overnight and then wipe clean.
A good long soak in the tub with dryer sheets helps to degrease household items making them easier to clean with hardly any effort at all.