CR’s in-house range experts offer their take on what might be your stove's most hotly debated feature Some folks would rather manually scrub away tough messes than activate an oven's self-clean ...

Your oven floor is covered with burnt-on remains of something, and the window is spattered with grease. I’ve been there—we’ve all been there. We use our ovens hard for weeknight dinners and holiday ...

Besides the fact that some argue you should never use the self-cleaning feature on your oven at all, right before Thanksgiving is the absolute worst time. Here’s why: It could break your oven. The ...

Many modern ovens come with a self-cleaning function, which is intended to make the cleaning process simpler. The self-cleaning feature works by generating high temperatures in order to burn any food, ...