Oven cleaner.

摘要

An oven cleaner containing as the active ingredients a non-caustic alkali metal carbonate, sesquicarbonate or bicarbonate and a polyhydric alcohol, preferably glycerol, which is liquid and substantially non-volatile at the desired cleaning temperature and in which the alkali metal salt is soluble at that temperature. A method for cleaning ovens and cookware comprises applying the oven cleaner according to the invention to the surface to be cleaned and heating the surface to a temperature of at least 125 DEG C for a period of at least five minutes and wiping and/or washing the saponified oils and fats from the surfaces. Effective oven cleaning compositions having a pH of 9 or below may be produced using the present invention.