Ideally, you should clean your oven the same day the spills occur—steam cleaning is most effective with fresh spills.

Remember the holidays? Maybe you did lots of baking and roasting, perhaps even a turkey or two. Now raise your hand if you’ve cleaned your oven since then. Or since LAST Thanksgiving, for that matter.

Cleaning your oven door can be strangely difficult. After all, it's just glass, right? In some ways, yes, but you don't want to treat it like any old window pane. Because they can have tints, you ...