How to clean ovens, by brand

AEG ships pyrolytic, steam and catalytic across the same range, and the wrong assumption ruins a liner that cannot be replaced without a part order.

The badge on an Ariston has changed several times while the appliance underneath did not, which is why the model number is the only thing worth trusting.

One of the few brands that will sell you the kitchen and the outdoor cooking, which means an Artusi house often has two very different appliances to look after.

Asko's Pro Series fronts are large flat stainless panels at eye level, which is the least forgiving surface in a kitchen for a wrong wipe.

Baumatic went into apartment fit-outs by the hundred through the 2000s, which means the oven is as old as the block and has usually had two owners.

A Belling is not an oven, it is a range cooker: multiple cavities, multiple doors, and a second oven that has usually never been cleaned because it has never been used.

Bought as a kitchen rather than as an oven, usually by someone furnishing a first home, and supported through the shop rather than a manufacturer.

A German kitchen brand best known for sinks, whose ovens went into apartment developments by the hundred. Yours is very unlikely to be unusual.

The rough dark panel at the back of a Bosch is not baked-on grime, it is the cleaning system, and scrubbing it destroys it. Here is how to read your Series number and treat the oven accordingly.

More rental kitchens in Sydney have a Chef than anything else, which makes this the oven most end-of-lease inspections are actually looking at.

DeLonghi sold heavily into Sydney apartments through the 2000s. Almost every one we open is on its second or third owner and its first proper clean.

Electrolux owns Westinghouse and Chef, so the same cavity turns up under three badges at three prices. The tier number matters more than the name on the door.

Emilia sells a look as much as an appliance, and the wide gas range people choose deliberately is a different proposition from one that came with a house.

Second only to Chef for end-of-lease work in Sydney, which means most of these are cleaned against a date rather than a standard.

If you have an Everdure oven rather than a barbecue, you have the older Australian kitchen line, which has not been sold new for many years.

A Falcon is the heaviest domestic cooking appliance most people will own, and its bright trim is the part that shows every mistake.

The French door is the part that catches people out. Two independently hinged half doors are not two halves of a normal oven door, and they cannot be removed the usual way.

Franke ovens turn up in designer kitchens where they were specified alongside a Franke sink and hood, rather than chosen on their own merits.

On a five figure appliance the question is not what product to use. It is who carries the risk if something goes wrong.

Glem Gas is exactly what the name says. On a freestanding model the hob and oven are one machine, and cleaning one without the other makes little sense.

The Swedish name on the front is a product name, not a manufacturer. Underneath it is a Whirlpool appliance, and that is what parts cross-reference to.

An ILVE is not an oven, it is two or three ovens, a grill, a dozen cast iron trivets and a great deal of brass. The brass is what people ruin, and it happens in the first ten minutes.

A premium badge over Whirlpool group engineering, in a small Australian range that turns up in renovations rather than fit-outs.

Kleenmaid collapsed in 2009 and relaunched, which means a great many of these ovens have outlived their support. That changes what you should risk.

The enamel fascia across the front is what makes a La Germania look like a La Germania, and it is the part a careless cleaner ruins.

EasyClean sounds like a self-cleaning oven and is not one, and that gap between the name and the function explains most LG complaints.

Lofra's heritage styling is the reason people buy them, and the brass that creates it is the reason a careless clean shows for years.

PerfectClean is a finish, not a coating you can replace, and one pass with a scourer ends it. Here is how to tell whether your Miele has it, and what that means for every product you own.

The Slide and Hide door is the best thing about a Neff and the part every cleaning guide ignores, because no other oven has one.

Whole streets of NSW project homes have the same Omega oven, hob and hood, fitted on the same day and reaching the same point at the same time.

Dual Cook Flex is genuinely unusual: one cavity, one door, and a divider that turns it into two ovens with two seals to look after.

Siemens shares its cavity with Bosch and Neff, which means the same rule about rough dark panels applies here too.

Smeg sells three different self-cleaning systems under one badge, and the wrong assumption costs you a coloured enamel front. Here is how to tell which oven you have, then clean it properly.

These predate most current parts catalogues. A St George still running after forty years is not a problem to be solved, it is an appliance to be treated carefully.

Technika puts catalytic liners in ovens cheap enough that owners assume there is nothing clever inside, which is exactly why those liners get scrubbed.

A package kitchen deteriorates in a predictable order, and the appliance that gets cleaned most is the one suffering from the appliance that gets cleaned least.

There is no self-clean cycle to fall back on and no clever coating to protect. A Westinghouse takes an honest clean, and most of them in Sydney are ten to twenty five years into needing one.

Whirlpool builds appliances that reach Australian kitchens under at least four different names, which makes parts easier to find than most people realise.