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 ...

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 ...

Your oven's self-cleaning feature uses extreme heat to burn off food. Those high temperatures require precautions to protect you and the appliance.

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, ...

Your oven takes a beating all year, from New Year's appetizers to dribbling turkey fat on Thanksgiving and Christmas cookie crumbs. Odds are, it could use some R&R. Did you pick up a weird burning ...

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.