I have a GE oven door that always looks awful because of drips, etc., inside the door. How that happens has always been a mystery. After attempting to clean it, shoving a bendable cleaning tool into the bottom openings, I came up with a brilliant solution. I now hang two dishtowels from the door handle to hide the dirty door! LOL
Yes that is what I will have to do! We took off the door again as we now have a very large white spill on the glass, only to find that the ruler method comes nowhere near to that glass pane. We then loosened the two screws near the handle after consulting another video and tried to see if we opened it more, from the other side, if we could clean that mess. There appears to be a double pane of glass in there and we could not access the stains that way either. There seems to be zero solutions here. We cannot see how you can ever get to that particular pane of glass...covering the glass window and never using it to see into the oven seems to be the answer. We are disgusted at this way of putting a door together. The oven was very expensive and is only six years old. The similar model it replaced (which was far better) we were able to remove the door and clean the glass with no problems.
Dear Judy: We put a man on the moon nearly fifty years ago, but since then, NOTHING...I'd say modern kitchen conveniences also reached their peak around that time. I can't get over all these happy, sappy consumers (what kind of horse tranquilizers are they on?) who are actually fawningly THANKFUL to the appliance manufacturers for their ridiculous solutions on how to clean one of their defective, poorly designed products: "Call in one of our authorized SERVICE TECHs" (and scrub away at the glass panels while he waits patiently around for an hour in the kitchen). Then there's always Option 2, suggested by one of the happy, sappy consumers who obviously has no dudgeon, high or low: "Hang some pretty tea towels" on the door handle to hide the greasy eyesore. Meanwhile, here comes another holiday season, with the splattering turkeys, the basting, the sugar-cured hams, the bubbling-over pies, sweet potatoes and everything else that needs to be cooked in the oven. I give up. When the aliens come, I'm going back with them. If they can skim cross 200 light years in 3 days, then they've got to have better stoves than we do.
Honestly- either make it so the glass inside can’t get dirty at all, or design it so it’s much more accessible. I’m sitting on my floor trying to figure this out and just want to cook over a fire now.
Looked easy. Just did this, the cloth came of the stick inside the oven door, stuck there. Now I can't get it out. I need a wire hanger or something. This is fun.
Thank you!!!!! This was so helpful! Now let’s make a tool a little more practical than the art stick bc mine broke twice. And my fingers got cuts several times and they were burning with open cuts the whole time while cleaning this door. But ... thanks anyway bc those dirt marks on the oven door were sending my cleaning OCD on an all time high!!!! Now I feel so much satisfaction every time I see the oven door. I don’t know who is with me on this one but all cleaning obsessed out there .... You get me!
ME!!! I just found this video. We made some sauce and it boiled over and dripped right in the middle of the door. I've been trying everything to get it off, but I'm on my way tomorrow to get a yardstick. Or maybe something stronger so I don't break it off and have cuts on my hand. Thank you for your feedback. I think I got this now. :)
I was going to comment on this video but after reading through the comments I don't believe there's anything that's left to be said about how ridiculous this is.... thanks you guys
Good vid...However, a couple tips. 1) My GE oven had the exact same door locks, but they each had a screw above them that had to be removed first to unlock the locks. (Note the GE oven's manual didn't even mention the screw locks). And 2) There wasn't really enough room to effectively clean to the glass using a yard stick and thin towel. It works, but we lost the towel trying to take it out. Plus, and this is important, there are 2 layers of glass and the video solution didn't help with reaching the other piece of glass (which in our case had the bad cooking stain on it). With the GE model we have (JT3000 30"), 4 screws at the very bottom of the oven door had to be removed, and 2 others near the bottom area to take off the door cover so that the glass could be reached and fully cleaned. All this said, the video certainly helped and there are a lot of oven models, so it likely works great on other ovens. Thanks
75° angle? That's a 15° angle. Hire people that finished high-school. Also, design a door that doesn't need cleaning inside a glass sandwich. Huge oversight.
The interior angle labeled in the video, formed by vertical plane and the door, is indeed 15 degrees. Thr complementary angle formed by the floor and the door is 75 degrees, but that is not the relevant angle in the operation illustrated by the video.
Really people? They just told you to clean it with a stick 🤣🤣🤣 and your worried about the angles? Engineers.... smart as hell, but can never see the obvious bahaha.
I really want to thank you for posting this video! I bought my new stove in January of this year and only after the 2nd use I spilled some milk down inside the door from the top of the oven. I have been living with the streaks inside the glass for over 11 months and it has been driving me crazy! I have watched many videos on TH-cam that show taking the door apart and cleaning it that way, but I don't have the special screwdriver for the screw heads on my GE range. Your video revealed another way!!! It was probably just as time consuming because I don't own a yard stick, but my oven now looks 99.99999% better!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Now that is what we love to hear from our GE customers, Jose! We are so excited that this worked for you and your unit now looks like new! Glad we could help! Happy New Year! -SF
Hello Droneworks, thanks for purchasing our sleek new GE oven. These are great new ovens and the yardstick is just for cleaning if necessary. Let's hope you don't need it! Enjoy your new GE oven! -SF
This is totally ridiculous! The yardstick cannot get in between the two inner panes of glass which are completely encased in metal. We took our oven door completely apart to get to the panes of glass that needed to be cleaned. Terrible design!
You didn't come up with this, you're just helping yourselves to the thing homemakers had to invent because you can't be bothered to make an easy clean oven door.
Thanks to all of you that have posted all the very helpful TH-cam videos on how to clean oven glass. Okay, I just finished cleaning my oven door glass. The easy part is taking the oven door off, apart, and then reinstalling. The hard part is cleaning the glass. First, I would recommend taking plenty of photos before you take anything apart. Next I would recommend taking more photos as you are slowly taking things apart. If you have enough room, lay out the parts in the order you took them out while taking photos of everything. You can’t have to many photos. To clean the glass I tried a number of products mentioned in all the TH-cam videos I watched before I began my task. What worked best for me was a combination of the following depending on how much build up there was. A razor blade, You must be careful not to scratch the glass. I felt comfortable using a blade as I use it often when cleaning car windshields for myself and others. If you don’t know what you’re doing or not experienced using a razor blade, do not use it. Bar Keepers Friend (cleanser) with a Teflon safe sponge, Need to use a little “elbow grease with this but it does work Mr. Clean's Magic Eraser, Works about the same as cleanser and sponge but not as rough. Griot’s Glass Polish and a glass polishing pad, I use this as the finishing touch and applied it with my Porter Cable 7424XP set to number four. It’s the same process I use on auto windshields and it actually takes off a layer of glass on a molecular level. Makes the glass as smooth as a babies a$$. For those that don’t have the tools and products for the last step, just rinse the glass clean with mild soap and water after you’ve cleaned the glass to your satisfaction. Wipe it dry, reinstall the glass, reassemble the door, and reinstall the oven door to the oven. Don’t forget to take the pins out if applicable and reinstall the door stop clips. Job done!
I did this and it worked. But really... in this day and age I had to use a yard stick. Also I could remove the door on my own. Why is the glass part not sealed to prevent it getting dirty inside?
Once this door is removed if you remove the screws at the top of the door (2 of them) and bottom of the door (3 of them) then the door will separate in 2 making it easier to clean inside the glass. And it will be easier to get rid of smears this way. No need for a "yardstick".
OMG...I didn't know removing the door is that easy...I followed the instructions and my oven glass door is bright and clean. I had a couple of old caked spots that I used a very thin scrubbing sponge that I attached with a rubber band to the yard stick to clean. Thank you so much.
I have an older model JB507 H2WW basic GE stove. I do not know how old it is because the stove was here when I moved in.This stove, has a different hinge on the oven door. You just open the door at an angle and slide the door up and off. Very easy. Thanks to this video I now know how to clean the inside of the double pane oven door. I never knew that the glass could be cleaned from the inside until I read an article about cleaning ovens with baking soda which I do anyway. The article suggested reading the manufactors instructions on how to clean inside the glass door. Googled on how to do this and this video came up on TH-cam. I wipe my pans, surface under pans, racks, oven and oven glass door down with a paste of baking soda which makes clean up very easy. The inside of the glass would have stains that I did not know how to clean. Thanks to that article and this video I now know how to clean it. I will not use baking soda on the inside glass door because because it will take to much time to remove the baking soda film, just a mild low suds dish washing liquid that would be easy to wipe away. The baking soda residue is good for making easy clean up on the rest of the stove. Thanks for video GE
Why not make the existing slots at the top of the door sufficiently wide and angled so that the cleaning stick can be inserted from the top. Then the door would not have to be removed. I understand this does not apply to all models.
Thank you for your feedback. Your comments are important to us. Our product design division takes these suggestions into account when planning future products. - TS
Hello Palo - Congratulations on your new oven! We appreciate you getting back to us and again apologize for your inconvenience. We recommend contacting GE Factory Service at 1-800-432-2737 or scheduling an appointment online at: www.geappliances.com/ge/service-and-support/service.htm?ICID=GEARsupportflyout-service We hope this helps! Thanks for choosing GE Appliances! -NC
@@joellenbroetzmann9053 inside MY oven door are COBWEBS! Why in the world anything would want to be there is beyond me....but now I can try to vacuum them out from the bottom....
Can we replace the door with glass with the old fashioned door with no glass? I don't even want to try cleaning between the glass parts. I might end up cleaning it with a sledge hammer.
Wow! I read the manual carefully and then watched this video. It was hard to get the door off, and then really really hard to get it back on as the manual did not have the picture of what our hinges looked like. I thought we were going to have to have a service call to put the door back on. The yardstick only cleans one side of the glass, we had to turn the door over and try to clean the other. The rag slipped off and the yardstick, unknown to me, was scratching the glass all over. And now it is cloudy and scratched. I am fed up with GE appliances. I had the prior model to this GE slide in stove and I really liked it, this newer one is so much worse in so many ways. The prior one the door was easy to remove, they had instructions how to open the oven door and directly clean the glass and it looked like new when we put it back., this one, no way. I was loyal to GE in the past, now I am very disappointed in GE. Why can an oven not be designed so mystery food does not get in the door. My glass inside was filthy after even a few months and I have no idea how it got in there.
My hinge ended up closing like it is when the door attached I spend 3 hours trying to fix it before I found a TH-cam video telling me how to get the binge back in the unlock position. Thank goodness for TH-cam
There's two screws opposite the handle on the inside, remove those carefully, separate and clean the glass with a soapy microfiber towel and razor blade if necessary. Wipe down with a dry microfiber towel, done. Takes about 6 minutes and looks new.
Here's a pie in the sky, outside the box suggestion: Make the glass panels removable with maybe a key? Then customers can just fully clean the door with ease. Pretty mind blowing stuff i know
Why not just make hinges located on the inside of the oven door to access cleaning the glass on the inside? I agree with the others, doing all this just to try to clean the inside glass is ridiculous!!
Thanks! This video helped a lot. I accidentally dropped pizza while taking it out and it messed my oven. This trick really helped. I never knew that the door is so easy to take off and attach again.
Taking the door off is supremely easy. GE"s "trick" worked fine. Only half a pie ended up in the top half of the oven, the rest poured down the front and between both the upper and lower doors. Took them both off and cleaned them in the bath tub with the yard stick and rag. I know, very "high tech" but it worked.
Thank you thank you thank yooooou. I don't have this oven but I learned about the hinge thing from this video and I did it!! I finally can see my baked goods as they are baking! Though I went the extra mile and unscrewed the nails beneath the door to get it crystal clear❤
My oven door has a small bracket that you can pull out by hand and remove the glass completely - so easy to clean and comes up like brand new every time.
Hi, Mrgrombie. The door can be heavy as it was designed to be sturdy to last and withstand high temperatures. Two people are recommended for the removable to be safe. We appreciate your comments. JP
I just saw a comment that says...It took two man to take this door out. That’s crazy!!! I am a very skinny petite woman 4’7 and I removed the door all by myself!!!!
Me, watching my meringues, thinking about how dirty the window is..... watching this video..... I think I'm gonna wait til the oven dies and just get one that has a less ridiculous solution.
THAT's the real answer. They WANT the glass to get dirty, because we'd rather buy a new oven, than hire longshoremen to come over and move the door for us.
I used a a carboy brush. Dipped in a mixture of liquid dishwashing soap and water. Cuts the grease and not a lot of soap residue. Then followed up with water/towel on a yard stick. Easier then what I thought.
I have had other stoves and never had to deal with this! Imagine my surprise when I started seeing drippings down the glass and I was surprised to learnthat they are on the inside!. WHat is the need for the gap?? Isn't there another way to design this.???? This is stupid!
Susan D I’ve been cooking for more than 40 years (yikes) and have never had drips between glass panels! My brand new oven has spilled soup that dripped inside the door, but it may have to stay that way! Didn’t even know this was a “thing”!🤬
@ 1:03 - "don't lift door by handle", as they both lift the door by its handle :) Why the hell does it even have a window if all the window does its get filthy?
Or they could have ... Ya know, not made it physically possible for liquids to ingress into the door glass and foul it up to begin with. But no, let's remove the bigass door and go find a yardstick!
Or, you could simply remove the door then take off the screws to separate the panels. Just did this. I was even able to remove the thick piece of glass in the middle for cleaning.
Just my opinion. But the girl who took the door apart - by herself -made it look much easier than removing the entire door from the stove. It was a lot like folding in a window to clean it. And um, it actually got completely clean at the end. This is a lot of trouble requiring two people and still coming out with "residue" inside the panels.
Agreed. It's very difficult. Took me hours. The opening for the yardstick is very narrow. Burnt spots don't come out. Inside of my glass was left cloudy and streaked, despite my using white vinegar and then buffing with a dry cloth, awkwardly. Then I couldn't get the oven door back on. It kept going on too high. Door is heavy and awkward. What a ridiculous method. Screws don't have a standard slot for screwdrivers. Here I sit with oven door on my lap. Repair companies want several hundred dollars to do this job! Come on GE, you can do better!
OK, now I'm really in trouble. Tried about 10 times to put door back on and the right side hinge apparently got locked but I couldn't get the left side in. So there I am with one side in and can't get the door completely on or off. Forced it off and then found a video that said I have to go find a metal pipe to force the locked hinge back down into the bottom position to try to put the door back on again. I took one step forward and three steps back. It's 10pm. Where am I supposed to find a metal pipe? I already scratched the white paint off the lower drawer. Grrrrr.
@@geappliances We have the owners manual. The hinge does not look like the picture. My husband spend maybe 25 minutes until he got it back in with the manual such as it is and and this video. My previous model very similar was much easier to clean, taking the door off and removing screws to clean the glass. I scratched the glass trying to clean it with a yardstick...it is now blotchy and looks pretty bad after all the effort. No mention of that little problem. Very unhappy.
Thanks for the tips to unlock the door. However, the easiest way to clean is take the door to the sink and run (soapy) water through it. Wipe and leave dry under the sun. Or use hair dryer if necessary. 😊
This is basically what I did.. Had some drips of milk down the inside glass, I just took the drawer out, put a towel on the floor, and poured water into it until the milk was rinsed away 🤷 awful design
This is ridiculous! That glass will not be clean after this, you can’t get the yard stick in the corners. Who even has a yard stick? The glass should be designed to slide in and out. The only other option is to take the door apart and it never goes back together easily. It’s 2021...get this figured out!
Yes - you would it would be easier than a man on the moon. Maybe make an oven where the inside of the glass doesn't get gunky!!! This is the first oven I have which does this - is this new technology just to give us a headache????
And you wonder why GE is in trouble. Although they sold the appliance division in 2016, this is clearly a GE (legacy) design issue. With any luck the new Chinese owners will have better designers.
I took my door apart to clean it and could not get it back together. I had to pay a repairman to put it back together. I did not know about the yardstick option.
Nice to see it takes to men to take the oven door. I am a senior woman living alone, so I guess, unless I want to hire a couple of strong guys, there is no way for me to clean the door.
Hello, You can have GE Consumer Service out to clean the window. They can be reached by calling 1-800-432-2737 or you can schedule an appointment online. Take a look at the link below that may help prevent the streaks from occurring. JW products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-support-search-content?contentId=16541
@@geappliances i'm getting rid of my last range because the door is so stained, bottom element went out, and the convection fan stopped. I watched the video to prevent inside of door from looking filthy; it is to clean it before you use it. Like the stove top. Clean it before you use it. Not sure my back is ready for that. My new range coming has a steam cleaning for smaller messes in oven... so maybe that will keep it clean. I'm getting a very similar model because I caused the enclosed bottom element to go out by covering it, and I think with some change of thinking, I might be happy with this one. I'm going to give my old one away but if I were keeping it, i would take it apart rather than use a yardstick, which i agree with someone else, I haven't seen one of those in a long time. How would a serviceman handle it if they came to my house?
Hello Lazylizier, We do not have specifics on how our technicians diagnose and repair each product. If disassembly is required our technicians are certified specialists trained by the factory to handle the repair. I hope this information is helpful. Thanks for checking with us. AS
@@geappliances yeah you charge $100 for the GE guy just to go to her house. Then she has to pay for labor and parts. So a senior citizen has to pay you $200-$300 to clean her oven door ???? Are you INSANE ?????????
I'm a 65 year old woman 5 feet tall and I can get this oven door off by myself. I can even get it back _on_ by myself about half the time! Getting it seated to go back on is actually the harder job, believe it or not. I take mine off several times a year to clean the oven manually as the self-cleaning feature is bad for breathing, especially if you have pets. The door really isn't horribly heavy, just awkward, and a little hard to reseat until you get the angle down, but with practice one person _can_ do it. Now, the question of why it should _have_ to be done to clean the inside of the glass is another issue altogether. With proper sealing you'd think these panes could stay clean inside. Back to the drawing board go R&D, and out to the kitchen go I with yardstick: This stove simply came with the house I bought and I didn't even know until now that one _could_ clean in between those panes.
I took the screws out and took the door apart.....filthy. It’s not just the glass that gets dirty. It’s back together and ready didn’t take that long. I can see myself fighting that yardstick trying to get cleaned what I wanted.
Hi Marc, this is not intended as a design flaw. We do hope you find this tutorial video and steps, to be an easy guide to cleaning the oven doors! Thanks for watching! kg
Can we address the 75° angle? It’s marked entirely wrong. The door is only open about 15°. The referenced 75° would be to the outer plane (where the door rests when it’s wide open) to the 90° mark (fully closed). In the case in the video the door would be closed at a 75° angle and the marking for it should go from that fully open plane to the outer edge of the door not from the 90° mark to the inner edge of the door. If you’re referencing the entire 180° of opening when the door is wide open then is the door not open 105° with the remaining 75° to go? So if I’m not mistaken the door is open 15° or 105° not 75°. If I’m wrong let me know please.
Hi, Christian. Thank you for your patience in awaiting our reply. The area marked 75 degrees is actually 15 degrees. There is a built-in stop position in the door at this place, so you'll still be able to remove the door according to these directions. We'll pass the correction along to our video team. JP
Dear Christian: why aren't you sending out resumes to these manufacturers? We, the oven cleaners of America, need someone like you to represent us to the mighty in their ivory towers who've never cleaned an oven in their life. You'd probably be hired, IMMEDIATELY, as a HEAD ENGINEER for their floundering Oven Door Division, where, I hear, they're all running frantically around looking for a dark place to insert their opposing thumbs. You don't need to tell fibs on your resume, either -- just the fact that you can distinguish between 15 and 75 degrees will have them begging you to start on Monday! It seems that not only do their present designers/engineers suck at what they do, but that the half-witted copywriters in their Instruction Manual Division can't even tell the difference between a "1" and a "7"...I don't know whether you're a policeman, a schoolteacher or a jazz saxophonist, but I'm buying my next stove from YOU if you be kind enough to design it for me.
It Should be mentioned that each make of oven has a different door configuration. Mine is an Ikea and actually has 4 pieces of glass. The only possible way to clean both sides of each piece of glass is to remove the door and disassemble the door.
When you're paying over a grand for a stove there should be latches inside the stove that you release open it up Wipeout the stove lock it back and move on. This is BS
this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. do the engineers who came up with this really think somebody is going to do this ????? who even owns a yardstick ????
Why double glazing just hv thick glass,am I to get 2 big chaps in to get this thing off wait, me clean and the put it back fit a fee. What a design flaw the persons who designed it no doubt don't cook or clean!
I thought the same. Here’s a $2k oven. Call grandma for a yardstick or get a “professional” to clean it was the basic snarky response from the GE Company
We're sorry to hear you're not satisfied with the design of the glass window on your range. While we strive to meet the needs of our consumers, we also understand there's always room to improve. We will be sure to share your feedback with the proper teams to contribute to our continuous improvement.
Next video: How to fish out the towel that fell off the yardstick while cleaning. Wish they would have showed this in real time - how long would it take to actually clean a door this way? My door actually came already dirty from the factory... like someone put their hands all over it (the inside glass) - thanks GE!
Is this the only method?? What a joke! I thought this was some NOOB on TH-cam who made this! Who's oven door doesn't get dirty or dusty in between the glass?? Ours has been dusty for years and I finally thought I should google a solution. This video was the top choice on Google! LOL :-(
Hello Scorchinscooter - we hope it helps! The other option we would recommend would be to contact GE Factory Service at 1-800-432-2737, or schedule a service appointment online at: www.geappliances.com/ge/service-and-support/service.htm?ICID=GEARsupportflyout-service Thanks for checking with us! -NC
Hello Kay - Thank you for reaching out to us. We are checking with our research team for further suggestions. We will respond to you as soon as possible. -BL
Hi, Kay. Thank you so much for your patience in awaiting our reply. The rubberband should fall out of the bottom of the door when the door stands up right. If not, please use the stick, towel and new rubberband to push it out the bottom of the door. If any other questions come up, we are glad to help. JP
The way they cleaned the glass, I didn't see no need to take it down. He could have easily reached the glass where it was. Don't fix it if it's not broken. No wonder they placed a disclaimer at the beginning. 🤔wonder why.
depending on the oven it's really not that heavy for a woman. I use to take the door off to make cleaning inside the oven easier than leaning over the door. that was before self-cleaning ovens. I really never understood how people make such messes of their stovetops or oven doors. pay attention, don't overload your pan, allow for juices, cover the vents when moving items, and use a tinfoil vent so steam can escape. ,
Go to your local sporting goods store and buy a long gun cleaning kit for a 12 gauge shotgun,it has 3 rods you can screw together, numerous pads and scrub brushes that screw on the end, around $20-$25. It works like a charm!
Hi TJ, and thanks for commenting on our video. We’re glad to hear you found an option that works well for cleaning between your oven door glass! We do recommend using caution when using a cleaning method that differs from our instructions, as we won’t have tested other methods for safety and reliability. If you wish, you’re welcome to provide the model number for your appliance, here or over our GE Appliances social media. We’d be glad to provide more cleaning and maintenance information, if that might be helpful for you. We’re also glad to help any time if you ever have any other concerns or questions - we’re wishing you all the best! -SG
I took my door apart to remove the front glass, the I have a large drip in between the inner window that seems to be sealed. Am I missing something? Model number JB650D T1BB
Hi! Thanks for reaching out. We don't recommend taking the appliance, or its parts, apart. This is for safety reasons. If the spot is not coming up after following the directions shown in this video, then we'd recommend repeating the cleaning to see if it helps. We do not have alternate cleaning methods for cleaning between the glass on an oven door. If you have other questions about your appliances, know that we're happy to help. -MS
@@geappliances Thanks, I did end up taking the door apart, but the interior glass was permanently fixed into a metal frame with no way to remove it. I put the framed glass into my tub with Dawn dishwashing soap and let the gap between the glass with with soapy water. I drained it and let it refill several times. I then heated it up in the over to evaporate the water from between the two panes of glass. It helped with the drips, but it still has a brown hue from grease that could not be removed.
We are sorry to hear this process didn't help completely. You can always reach out to GE Consumer Service at 1-800-432-2737 and schedule an appointment. Please review the following link: spklr.io/6057lKJ9 Oven windows are made of glass that has gone through a coating process to make it stand up to the high temperatures to which it will be subjected. From some angles, it may appear to look like a rainbow. This is normal. The coating is actually somewhat metallic and helps to reflect heat back into the oven, and aids in keeping the door cool. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are here to help! JW
Don't be ridiculous. Rich people don't have shitty glass top GE ranges. They have ranges that were designed properly, so liquids can't get between the panes of glass in the door 🤣
Right?! What board meeting produced this ridiculous mess of instruction? Two grown men, (breastfeeding mom has two on hand somewhere) just grab a yardstick (because those are just sold everywhere) easy peasy
Hi Brandee, thanks for posting. We have not tested this method and would suggest that you follow the video's method for the safest way of cleaning your oven door. Enjoy your afternoon. -SF
I'm a renter... an oven baking glass explored in the oven. I have lasagna sauce and bits of ground beef inside and i don't know what to do about it 🤔😥😣
Are you kidding me? My stove was very expensive and this is the solution???? Even if I did do this, it wouldn't be clean and clear like a glass window should be.
Hello Barabooboo, thanks for reaching out to us with your range concerns. While your glass window may never need to be cleaned, if needed, this procedure does clean it very well. -SF
You are so right, Baraboodoo. Then the manufacturer has the gall to remind us that.trying to clean the mess (which would have never happened in the first place if their damn design had been up to snuff) by removing the oven door VOIDS the mfr's warranty! The mfr's idiotic solution? Call in a SERVICE TECH to remove the door...yeah, like a SERVICE TECH is going to patiently STAND AROUND IN THE KITCHEN for an hour and watch as we scrub away at two pieces of filthy, grease-spattered glass...then, when we're finally finished, good-naturedly fit it all back together again and reattach the oven door. I hope when he leaves he doesn't forget his suit of armor and the white horse he left at the front door.
@@yvonnebradford2072 Yep. He'll stand around while YOU clean it and charge you for his time standing around. Ridiculous design that is just a money grab.
Huh. At my oven I just took off every piece of glass wash with cif well until.sparkle clean then put back . Didnt read and watch anything. And was quik and easier then try to scrub between glass. Put back and voila ..clean
I have a GE oven door that always looks awful because of drips, etc., inside the door. How that happens has always been a mystery. After attempting to clean it, shoving a bendable cleaning tool into the bottom openings, I came up with a brilliant solution. I now hang two dishtowels from the door handle to hide the dirty door! LOL
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Lol!!! That is what I do!!!
Yes Janice..this always work until my pudge from having five babies, makes them fall to the floor….😂😂😂
Yes that is what I will have to do! We took off the door again as we now have a very large white spill on the glass, only to find that the ruler method comes nowhere near to that glass pane. We then loosened the two screws near the handle after consulting another video and tried to see if we opened it more, from the other side, if we could clean that mess. There appears to be a double pane of glass in there and we could not access the stains that way either. There seems to be zero solutions here. We cannot see how you can ever get to that particular pane of glass...covering the glass window and never using it to see into the oven seems to be the answer. We are disgusted at this way of putting a door together. The oven was very expensive and is only six years old. The similar model it replaced (which was far better) we were able to remove the door and clean the glass with no problems.
Uhh the glass exists so you can look into the oven
We can put a man on the moon but stove makers can't come up with a removable glass panel to clean between the glass on the door?? SMH.
Thank you for your feedback, Judy. We will share your comments with our design engineers. JP
Dear Judy: We put a man on the moon nearly fifty years ago, but since then, NOTHING...I'd say modern kitchen conveniences also reached their peak around that time. I can't get over all these happy, sappy consumers (what kind of horse tranquilizers are they on?) who are actually fawningly THANKFUL to the appliance manufacturers for their ridiculous solutions on how to clean one of their defective, poorly designed products: "Call in one of our authorized SERVICE TECHs" (and scrub away at the glass panels while he waits patiently around for an hour in the kitchen). Then there's always Option 2, suggested by one of the happy, sappy consumers who obviously has no dudgeon, high or low: "Hang some pretty tea towels" on the door handle to hide the greasy eyesore. Meanwhile, here comes another holiday season, with the splattering turkeys, the basting, the sugar-cured hams, the bubbling-over pies, sweet potatoes and everything else that needs to be cooked in the oven. I give up. When the aliens come, I'm going back with them. If they can skim cross 200 light years in 3 days, then they've got to have better stoves than we do.
@@yvonnebradford2072
thank you for making me laugh !!! 😂🤣
Judy Taya you are absolutely right ! It’s really terrible 😏😏
We shouldn't be putting a man on the moon!
Are you freaking kidding me, this is genius. This is right up there with getting the toast out the toaster with a knife.
Honestly- either make it so the glass inside can’t get dirty at all, or design it so it’s much more accessible. I’m sitting on my floor trying to figure this out and just want to cook over a fire now.
Looked easy. Just did this, the cloth came of the stick inside the oven door, stuck there. Now I can't get it out. I need a wire hanger or something. This is fun.
Thank you so much for the instructions that let me know what brand of oven I have to avoid
Make all your design engineers clean their own designs before you put it on the market. They will become so frustrated they'll change it, guaranteed.
Thank you!!!!! This was so helpful! Now let’s make a tool a little more practical than the art stick bc mine broke twice. And my fingers got cuts several times and they were burning with open cuts the whole time while cleaning this door. But ... thanks anyway bc those dirt marks on the oven door were sending my cleaning OCD on an all time high!!!! Now I feel so much satisfaction every time I see the oven door. I don’t know who is with me on this one but all cleaning obsessed out there .... You get me!
ME!!! I just found this video. We made some sauce and it boiled over and dripped right in the middle of the door. I've been trying everything to get it off, but I'm on my way tomorrow to get a yardstick. Or maybe something stronger so I don't break it off and have cuts on my hand. Thank you for your feedback. I think I got this now. :)
I was going to comment on this video but after reading through the comments I don't believe there's anything that's left to be said about how ridiculous this is.... thanks you guys
Same
Right? WTF? Why not tell me to rent a Skyhook and move an engine hoist into the kitchen.
Good vid...However, a couple tips. 1) My GE oven had the exact same door locks, but they each had a screw above them that had to be removed first to unlock the locks. (Note the GE oven's manual didn't even mention the screw locks). And 2) There wasn't really enough room to effectively clean to the glass using a yard stick and thin towel. It works, but we lost the towel trying to take it out. Plus, and this is important, there are 2 layers of glass and the video solution didn't help with reaching the other piece of glass (which in our case had the bad cooking stain on it). With the GE model we have (JT3000 30"), 4 screws at the very bottom of the oven door had to be removed, and 2 others near the bottom area to take off the door cover so that the glass could be reached and fully cleaned. All this said, the video certainly helped and there are a lot of oven models, so it likely works great on other ovens. Thanks
75° angle? That's a 15° angle. Hire people that finished high-school. Also, design a door that doesn't need cleaning inside a glass sandwich. Huge oversight.
its technically a -15 degree angle as with the door up its 90 and since it hinges towards you it is in fact a 75 degree angle to the floor
The interior angle labeled in the video, formed by vertical plane and the door, is indeed 15 degrees. Thr complementary angle formed by the floor and the door is 75 degrees, but that is not the relevant angle in the operation illustrated by the video.
thank you!!
Really people? They just told you to clean it with a stick 🤣🤣🤣 and your worried about the angles? Engineers.... smart as hell, but can never see the obvious bahaha.
I really want to thank you for posting this video! I bought my new stove in January of this year and only after the 2nd use I spilled some milk down inside the door from the top of the oven. I have been living with the streaks inside the glass for over 11 months and it has been driving me crazy! I have watched many videos on TH-cam that show taking the door apart and cleaning it that way, but I don't have the special screwdriver for the screw heads on my GE range. Your video revealed another way!!! It was probably just as time consuming because I don't own a yard stick, but my oven now looks 99.99999% better!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Now that is what we love to hear from our GE customers, Jose! We are so excited that this worked for you and your unit now looks like new! Glad we could help! Happy New Year! -SF
paid almost a grand for an oven and this is what they've came up with? a yardstick?
Hello Droneworks, thanks for purchasing our sleek new GE oven. These are great new ovens and the yardstick is just for cleaning if necessary. Let's hope you don't need it! Enjoy your new GE oven! -SF
DroneW
One question... Where can I purchase a yard stick?
Hello JH - you may want to check with your local hardware store. Thanks for checking with us! -NC
And they can send a man to the moon!
This is totally ridiculous! The yardstick cannot get in between the two inner panes of glass which are completely encased in metal. We took our oven door completely apart to get to the panes of glass that needed to be cleaned. Terrible design!
You didn't come up with this, you're just helping yourselves to the thing homemakers had to invent because you can't be bothered to make an easy clean oven door.
Thanks to all of you that have posted all the very helpful TH-cam videos on how to clean oven glass.
Okay, I just finished cleaning my oven door glass. The easy part is taking the oven door off, apart, and then reinstalling. The hard part is cleaning the glass.
First, I would recommend taking plenty of photos before you take anything apart. Next I would recommend taking more photos as you are slowly taking things apart. If you have enough room, lay out the parts in the order you took them out while taking photos of everything. You can’t have to many photos.
To clean the glass I tried a number of products mentioned in all the TH-cam videos I watched before I began my task. What worked best for me was a combination of the following depending on how much build up there was.
A razor blade,
You must be careful not to scratch the glass. I felt comfortable using a blade as I use it often when cleaning car windshields for myself and others. If you don’t know what you’re doing or not experienced using a razor blade, do not use it.
Bar Keepers Friend (cleanser) with a Teflon safe sponge,
Need to use a little “elbow grease with this but it does work
Mr. Clean's Magic Eraser,
Works about the same as cleanser and sponge but not as rough.
Griot’s Glass Polish and a glass polishing pad,
I use this as the finishing touch and applied it with my Porter Cable 7424XP set to number four. It’s the same process I use on auto windshields and it actually takes off a layer of glass on a molecular level. Makes the glass as smooth as a babies a$$.
For those that don’t have the tools and products for the last step, just rinse the glass clean with mild soap and water after you’ve cleaned the glass to your satisfaction. Wipe it dry, reinstall the glass, reassemble the door, and reinstall the oven door to the oven. Don’t forget to take the pins out if applicable and reinstall the door stop clips.
Job done!
I did this and it worked. But really... in this day and age I had to use a yard stick. Also I could remove the door on my own. Why is the glass part not sealed to prevent it getting dirty inside?
Great question
over a thousand dollar oven requires a stick, a couple rubber bands and a rag to clean.
Once this door is removed if you remove the screws at the top of the door (2 of them) and bottom of the door (3 of them) then the door will separate in 2 making it easier to clean inside the glass. And it will be easier to get rid of smears this way. No need for a "yardstick".
Expert Oven Cleaning hi do you know what tool I need to get to dismantle the glass door ?
@@cmc1204 with a screwdriver...?
@@joseluislopes3956 😂
Exactly what I was gonna say. We've done it!
If you're 73 and have a bad back, this isn't my option. But, it's a good idea.
OMG...I didn't know removing the door is that easy...I followed the instructions and my oven glass door is bright and clean.
I had a couple of old caked spots that I used a very thin scrubbing sponge that I attached with a rubber band to the yard stick to clean.
Thank you so much.
We're so glad to hear our video was helpful for you! If you have any other questions, we are here to assist you. Best, JP
After watching this and reading the comments I decided to leave the glass dirty.
I have an older model JB507 H2WW basic GE stove. I do not know how old it is because the stove was here when I moved in.This stove, has a different hinge on the oven door. You just open the door at an angle and slide the door up and off. Very easy. Thanks to this video I now know how to clean the inside of the double pane oven door. I never knew that the glass could be cleaned from the inside until I read an article about cleaning ovens with baking soda which I do anyway. The article suggested reading the manufactors instructions on how to clean inside the glass door. Googled on how to do this and this video came up on TH-cam. I wipe my pans, surface under pans, racks, oven and oven glass door down with a paste of baking soda which makes clean up very easy. The inside of the glass would have stains that I did not know how to clean. Thanks to that article and this video I now know how to clean it. I will not use baking soda on the inside glass door because because it will take to much time to remove the baking soda film, just a mild low suds dish washing liquid that would be easy to wipe away. The baking soda residue is good for making easy clean up on the rest of the stove. Thanks for video GE
Why not make the existing slots at the top of the door sufficiently wide and angled so that the cleaning stick can be inserted from the top. Then the door would not have to be removed. I understand this does not apply to all models.
Thank you for your feedback. Your comments are important to us. Our product design division takes these suggestions into account when planning future products. - TS
How does the design of future products help me? I've got a brand new, expensive "self cleaning" oven with an obvious design flaw, that looks filthy.
Hello Palo - Congratulations on your new oven! We appreciate you getting back to us and again apologize for your inconvenience. We recommend contacting GE Factory Service at 1-800-432-2737 or scheduling an appointment online at: www.geappliances.com/ge/service-and-support/service.htm?ICID=GEARsupportflyout-service We hope this helps! Thanks for choosing GE Appliances! -NC
Yup. And if there is gravity and the opening is at the bottom, how did the inside of the door get dirty in the 1st place?
@@joellenbroetzmann9053 inside MY oven door are COBWEBS! Why in the world anything would want to be there is beyond me....but now I can try to vacuum them out from the bottom....
Can we replace the door with glass with the old fashioned door with no glass? I don't even want to try cleaning between the glass parts. I might end up cleaning it with a sledge hammer.
Wow! I read the manual carefully and then watched this video. It was hard to get the door off, and then really really hard to get it back on as the manual did not have the picture of what our hinges looked like. I thought we were going to have to have a service call to put the door back on. The yardstick only cleans one side of the glass, we had to turn the door over and try to clean the other. The rag slipped off and the yardstick, unknown to me, was scratching the glass all over. And now it is cloudy and scratched. I am fed up with GE appliances. I
had the prior model to this GE slide in stove and I really liked it, this newer one is so much worse in so many ways. The prior one the door was easy to remove, they had instructions how to open the oven door and directly clean the glass and it looked like new when we put it back., this one, no way. I was loyal to GE in the past, now I am very disappointed in GE. Why can an oven not be designed so mystery food does not get in the door. My glass inside was filthy after even a few months and I have no idea how it got in there.
My hinge ended up closing like it is when the door attached I spend 3 hours trying to fix it before I found a TH-cam video telling me how to get the binge back in the unlock position. Thank goodness for TH-cam
@@carlastiefel9675 link pls
There's two screws opposite the handle on the inside, remove those carefully, separate and clean the glass with a soapy microfiber towel and razor blade if necessary. Wipe down with a dry microfiber towel, done. Takes about 6 minutes and looks new.
Frist time in my life I am able to clean the oven door . Thanks for the video 👍
Thanks so much my wife is so so happy, she might even start baking....
Here's a pie in the sky, outside the box suggestion:
Make the glass panels removable with maybe a key? Then customers can just fully clean the door with ease.
Pretty mind blowing stuff i know
Why not just make hinges located on the inside of the oven door to access cleaning the glass on the inside? I agree with the others, doing all this just to try to clean the inside glass is ridiculous!!
Thanks! This video helped a lot. I accidentally dropped pizza while taking it out and it messed my oven. This trick really helped. I never knew that the door is so easy to take off and attach again.
Taking the door off is supremely easy. GE"s "trick" worked fine. Only half a pie ended up in the top half of the oven, the rest poured down the front and between both the upper and lower doors. Took them both off and cleaned them in the bath tub with the yard stick and rag. I know, very "high tech" but it worked.
We are so sorry to hear about this mishap, Lawrencejreina. But thrilled that this cleaning tip worked for you! Thanks for sharing! -SF
It’s much quicker to just take a cast iron pan and drop it right through the door. “No glass, no streaks, no problem.”
Thank you thank you thank yooooou. I don't have this oven but I learned about the hinge thing from this video and I did it!! I finally can see my baked goods as they are baking! Though I went the extra mile and unscrewed the nails beneath the door to get it crystal clear❤
My oven door has a small bracket that you can pull out by hand and remove the glass completely - so easy to clean and comes up like brand new every time.
interesting! what brand is that by chance? I need a new oven soon :P
It took 2 grown men to take this door off.... Does no one see the problem with this?
Hi, Mrgrombie. The door can be heavy as it was designed to be sturdy to last and withstand high temperatures. Two people are recommended for the removable to be safe. We appreciate your comments. JP
@@geappliances So why not flip the opening so the door doesn't need to come off?
Hello Mrgrombie, thanks for your suggestion which we will definitely pass along to our product engineers. Thanks again for your feedback. -SF
@@geappliances I will see how useful the info was in about 2-3 years then. XD
More progressive virtue signaling. Home with two Dads..
I just saw a comment that says...It took two man to take this door out. That’s crazy!!! I am a very skinny petite woman 4’7 and I removed the door all by myself!!!!
Me, watching my meringues, thinking about how dirty the window is..... watching this video..... I think I'm gonna wait til the oven dies and just get one that has a less ridiculous solution.
THAT's the real answer. They WANT the glass to get dirty, because we'd rather buy a new oven, than hire longshoremen to come over and move the door for us.
I used a a carboy brush. Dipped in a mixture of liquid dishwashing soap and water. Cuts the grease and not a lot of soap residue. Then followed up with water/towel on a yard stick. Easier then what I thought.
If this was a comedy scene... I'm laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have had other stoves and never had to deal with this! Imagine my surprise when I started seeing drippings down the glass and I was surprised to learnthat they are on the inside!. WHat is the need for the gap?? Isn't there another way to design this.???? This is stupid!
I have cat and dog hair that drifts up into the glass sandwich, which is open from the bottom. Envision that appetizing view!
Susan D I’ve been cooking for more than 40 years (yikes) and have never had drips between glass panels! My brand new oven has spilled soup that dripped inside the door, but it may have to stay that way! Didn’t even know this was a “thing”!🤬
we did exactly as instructed in this video and the glass shattered as soon as we lifted the door from the latches....be careful folks..
Is your stove a Ge?
@ 1:03 - "don't lift door by handle", as they both lift the door by its handle :) Why the hell does it even have a window if all the window does its get filthy?
GE please respond you cowards
Issue is, why is this even a thing? It should be WAY easier to get to these hard to reach spots. We pay good $$ for these items.
Or they could have ... Ya know, not made it physically possible for liquids to ingress into the door glass and foul it up to begin with.
But no, let's remove the bigass door and go find a yardstick!
you only cleaned ONE SIDE of the double glass ! I'm with Judy Taya, you can't come up with a removeable glass?!!!
Probably a very good reason why these "design engineers" will never get hired by NASA.
Or, you could simply remove the door then take off the screws to separate the panels. Just did this. I was even able to remove the thick piece of glass in the middle for cleaning.
Just my opinion. But the girl who took the door apart - by herself -made it look much easier than removing the entire door from the stove. It was a lot like folding in a window to clean it. And um, it actually got completely clean at the end. This is a lot of trouble requiring two people and still coming out with "residue" inside the panels.
Agreed. It's very difficult. Took me hours. The opening for the yardstick is very narrow. Burnt spots don't come out. Inside of my glass was left cloudy and streaked, despite my using white vinegar and then buffing with a dry cloth, awkwardly. Then I couldn't get the oven door back on. It kept going on too high. Door is heavy and awkward. What a ridiculous method. Screws don't have a standard slot for screwdrivers. Here I sit with oven door on my lap. Repair companies want several hundred dollars to do this job! Come on GE, you can do better!
OK, now I'm really in trouble. Tried about 10 times to put door back on and the right side hinge apparently got locked but I couldn't get the left side in. So there I am with one side in and can't get the door completely on or off. Forced it off and then found a video that said I have to go find a metal pipe to force the locked hinge back down into the bottom position to try to put the door back on again. I took one step forward and three steps back. It's 10pm. Where am I supposed to find a metal pipe? I already scratched the white paint off the lower drawer. Grrrrr.
We are sorry for the frustration, Carla, and will share your feedback. The owners manual will tell you how to put the door back on.
We appreciate your feedback, Queena! -NC
@@geappliances We have the owners manual. The hinge does not look like the picture. My husband spend maybe 25 minutes until he got it back in with the manual such as it is and and this video. My previous model very similar was much easier to clean, taking the door off and removing screws to clean the glass. I scratched the glass trying to clean it with a yardstick...it is now blotchy and looks pretty bad after all the effort. No mention of that little problem. Very unhappy.
thank you, that was so easy!!! I had a streak of soap that got in between the 2 glass pieces, did not know about the slot.
I'm so glad to hear that! I think it probably looks a bit harder than it is so I appreciate you sharing your thoughts! -CC
Thanks for the tips to unlock the door. However, the easiest way to clean is take the door to the sink and run (soapy) water through it. Wipe and leave dry under the sun. Or use hair dryer if necessary. 😊
Seems like that may show rust over time if done repeatedly
This is basically what I did.. Had some drips of milk down the inside glass, I just took the drawer out, put a towel on the floor, and poured water into it until the milk was rinsed away 🤷 awful design
Sadly not the only brand of oven that designed them this way.
It’s fine if you never use your kitchen.
Definitely not fine if you have pets
I am just wondering who designed it. Dumb or Dumber?
Definitely dumber.
LOL
Not Dumb or Dummer, but Dumbest designed it
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Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest!,
This is ridiculous! That glass will not be clean after this, you can’t get the yard stick in the corners. Who even has a yard stick? The glass should be designed to slide in and out. The only other option is to take the door apart and it never goes back together easily. It’s 2021...get this figured out!
"it's easy to clean inside your oven door"
First step: REMOVE THE DOOR FROM THE OVEN
😵🤣
LOL, remove the door oven with 2 big men with gloves on and have them place it on the counter. Then go find a freaking yardstick!!!!!
I removed the door to clean it and now can’t put that heavy door back on 🙄
It would seem that multiple people at GE have never seen a protractor.
You tell me that's a 15 degree angle and I'll buy it. 75? Yeah, maybe with regards to horizontal...
Hello - Please refer to your Owner's Manual for proper door removal instructions. Thank you!
Really, yardstick?
Yes - you would it would be easier than a man on the moon. Maybe make an oven where the inside of the glass doesn't get gunky!!! This is the first oven I have which does this - is this new technology just to give us a headache????
And you wonder why GE is in trouble. Although they sold the appliance division in 2016, this is clearly a GE (legacy) design issue. With any luck the new Chinese owners will have better designers.
This is odd. Why not unscrew and separate the two panels of the oven door and clean it by hand without the harebrained yardstick trick?
There are several internal components to the door that require special handling. This is why we recommend the yardstick method. - TS
Got it. Many thanks.
You're welcome!
I took my door apart to clean it and could not get it back together. I had to pay a repairman to put it back together. I did not know about the yardstick option.
Nice to see it takes to men to take the oven door. I am a senior woman living alone, so I guess, unless I want to hire a couple of strong guys, there is no way for me to clean the door.
Hello, You can have GE Consumer Service out to clean the window. They can be reached by calling 1-800-432-2737 or you can schedule an appointment online. Take a look at the link below that may help prevent the streaks from occurring. JW products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-support-search-content?contentId=16541
@@geappliances i'm getting rid of my last range because the door is so stained, bottom element went out, and the convection fan stopped. I watched the video to prevent inside of door from looking filthy; it is to clean it before you use it. Like the stove top. Clean it before you use it. Not sure my back is ready for that. My new range coming has a steam cleaning for smaller messes in oven... so maybe that will keep it clean. I'm getting a very similar model because I caused the enclosed bottom element to go out by covering it, and I think with some change of thinking, I might be happy with this one. I'm going to give my old one away but if I were keeping it, i would take it apart rather than use a yardstick, which i agree with someone else, I haven't seen one of those in a long time. How would a serviceman handle it if they came to my house?
Hello Lazylizier, We do not have specifics on how our technicians diagnose and repair each product. If disassembly is required our technicians are certified specialists trained by the factory to handle the repair.
I hope this information is helpful. Thanks for checking with us. AS
@@geappliances yeah you charge $100 for the GE guy just to go to her house. Then she has to pay for labor and parts. So a senior citizen has to pay you $200-$300 to clean her oven door ???? Are you INSANE ?????????
I'm a 65 year old woman 5 feet tall and I can get this oven door off by myself. I can even get it back _on_ by myself about half the time! Getting it seated to go back on is actually the harder job, believe it or not. I take mine off several times a year to clean the oven manually as the self-cleaning feature is bad for breathing, especially if you have pets. The door really isn't horribly heavy, just awkward, and a little hard to reseat until you get the angle down, but with practice one person _can_ do it. Now, the question of why it should _have_ to be done to clean the inside of the glass is another issue altogether. With proper sealing you'd think these panes could stay clean inside. Back to the drawing board go R&D, and out to the kitchen go I with yardstick: This stove simply came with the house I bought and I didn't even know until now that one _could_ clean in between those panes.
I took the screws out and took the door apart.....filthy. It’s not just the glass that gets dirty. It’s back together and ready didn’t take that long. I can see myself fighting that yardstick trying to get cleaned what I wanted.
They make magic eraser clothes now . I bet they would clean them wonderfully
After the door is off, can the front panel be unscrewed to gain full access to the glass instead of shoving a yardstick between the little opening???
Hi Pensivern, The only disassembly information we have is what is shown in the video. Sorry for any inconvenience.
pensivern yes it can. my door had 6 screws i removed and separated it from the body. It cleaned up real nice
Yes, but be careful taking apart so you can put together again. There are other videos about doing that.
What JA designed this oven? I feel just as stupid buying it without knowing of this design flaw.
Hi Marc, this is not intended as a design flaw. We do hope you find this tutorial video and steps, to be an easy guide to cleaning the oven doors! Thanks for watching! kg
@@geappliances Not INTENDED as a design flaw! I should hope not, but it is an abomination of a design. It IS a flawed design.
Can we address the 75° angle? It’s marked entirely wrong. The door is only open about 15°. The referenced 75° would be to the outer plane (where the door rests when it’s wide open) to the 90° mark (fully closed). In the case in the video the door would be closed at a 75° angle and the marking for it should go from that fully open plane to the outer edge of the door not from the 90° mark to the inner edge of the door. If you’re referencing the entire 180° of opening when the door is wide open then is the door not open 105° with the remaining 75° to go? So if I’m not mistaken the door is open 15° or 105° not 75°. If I’m wrong let me know please.
Hi Christian - we are happy to check on this for you and let you know. We appreciate your patience in the meantime. -NC
Still no answer eh?
Thanks for bringing this to our attention again, Brandiveh. Let me look into this for you. Thanks -SF
Hi, Christian. Thank you for your patience in awaiting our reply. The area marked 75 degrees is actually 15 degrees. There is a built-in stop position in the door at this place, so you'll still be able to remove the door according to these directions. We'll pass the correction along to our video team. JP
Dear Christian: why aren't you sending out resumes to these manufacturers? We, the oven cleaners of America, need someone like you to represent us to the mighty in their ivory towers who've never cleaned an oven in their life. You'd probably be hired, IMMEDIATELY, as a HEAD ENGINEER for their floundering Oven Door Division, where, I hear, they're all running frantically around looking for a dark place to insert their opposing thumbs. You don't need to tell fibs on your resume, either -- just the fact that you can distinguish between 15 and 75 degrees will have them begging you to start on Monday! It seems that not only do their present designers/engineers suck at what they do, but that the half-witted copywriters in their Instruction Manual Division can't even tell the difference between a "1" and a "7"...I don't know whether you're a policeman, a schoolteacher or a jazz saxophonist, but I'm buying my next stove from YOU if you be kind enough to design it for me.
Thank you so much for the video instructions. I thoroughly cleaned my bothersome window after harassing my husband to do it.
We know how important maintaining your unit is - we're so glad to hear these instructions were helpful, and you were able to clean your window!
This won't work if inside glass is very dirty.
Hello Gary, If the glass is really dirty, you may need to have GE Consumer Service out.
@@geappliances Right, and for how much money?? Just to clean the glass?? This is beyond ridiculous!!
That’s the reasons it’s impossible to clean, so companies make more $ by requiring us to call them in to service it! So frustrating.
Great tip thanks I was trying to figure this out myself with my new oven 😁
Glad to help, Moonlight Shadow! Enjoy your new GE Appliance oven! -SF
OMG Dude, I have been trying to figure out how to clean my oven door for about a week. Thank you! LOL I should have looked on TH-cam first.
We're so glad that this video was helpful and helped you get the job done! If you have any other questions, we're here. -AT
This was done on a clean window Where is the real cleaning? After baking and cooking for a year? This is a waste of time!
It Should be mentioned that each make of oven has a different door configuration. Mine is an Ikea and actually has 4 pieces of glass. The only possible way to clean both sides of each piece of glass is to remove the door and disassemble the door.
IKEA ovens were made by Whirlpool. Door glass is impossible to clean. Need a $$$ service call!
Just the solution I was waiting for. Thanks
My burner flames are too high and creating soot on pans and oven interior,is there an adjustment on stove or outside tank?
GE should have thought this through..a yardstick..taking oven doors off
When you're paying over a grand for a stove there should be latches inside the stove that you release open it up Wipeout the stove lock it back and move on. This is BS
this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. do the engineers who came up with this really think somebody is going to do this ????? who even owns a yardstick ????
Grandpa or grandma. Lol
Why double glazing just hv thick glass,am I to get 2 big chaps in to get this thing off wait, me clean and the put it back fit a fee. What a design flaw the persons who designed it no doubt don't cook or clean!
I thought the same. Here’s a $2k oven. Call grandma for a yardstick or get a “professional” to clean it was the basic snarky response from the GE Company
75' angle? or 15'???
You are trolling us with this video, right!? What a pain in the ass!
Thx for the information. I was nervous about having to remove the panel
You're welcome Angelia! We are happy to see that this video was helpful. Have a good weekend! JW
Can I take air fryer door apart to clean between glass
My ge range is 18 years old. The door does not come off. The range has never given me a bit of trouble, but the glass window is a problem.
We're sorry to hear you're not satisfied with the design of the glass window on your range. While we strive to meet the needs of our consumers, we also understand there's always room to improve. We will be sure to share your feedback with the proper teams to contribute to our continuous improvement.
Next video: How to fish out the towel that fell off the yardstick while cleaning.
Wish they would have showed this in real time - how long would it take to actually clean a door this way?
My door actually came already dirty from the factory... like someone put their hands all over it (the inside glass) - thanks GE!
Is this the only method?? What a joke! I thought this was some NOOB on TH-cam who made this! Who's oven door doesn't get dirty or dusty in between the glass?? Ours has been dusty for years and I finally thought I should google a solution. This video was the top choice on Google! LOL :-(
Hello Scorchinscooter - we hope it helps! The other option we would recommend would be to contact GE Factory Service at 1-800-432-2737, or schedule a service appointment online at: www.geappliances.com/ge/service-and-support/service.htm?ICID=GEARsupportflyout-service Thanks for checking with us! -NC
@@geappliances You designed this abomination and would love to charge the consumer for a service call. Money grab in the worst way!
What total nonsense. You could NEVER reach the glass closest to the entrance aperture
What happens when the rubberbands come off between the glass.
Hello Kay - Thank you for reaching out to us. We are checking with our research team for further suggestions. We will respond to you as soon as possible. -BL
Hi, Kay. Thank you so much for your patience in awaiting our reply. The rubberband should fall out of the bottom of the door when the door stands up right. If not, please use the stick, towel and new rubberband to push it out the bottom of the door. If any other questions come up, we are glad to help. JP
The way they cleaned the glass, I didn't see no need to take it down. He could have easily reached the glass where it was. Don't fix it if it's not broken. No wonder they placed a disclaimer at the beginning. 🤔wonder why.
Unscrew then four screws in the corner and it separates the two glasses lol
depending on the oven it's really not that heavy for a woman. I use to take the door off to make cleaning inside the oven easier than leaning over the door. that was before self-cleaning ovens. I really never understood how people make such messes of their stovetops or oven doors.
pay attention, don't overload your pan, allow for juices, cover the vents when moving items, and use a tinfoil vent so steam can escape.
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Omg I never knew I could do this .... I don't think my stains are going to come off easily 6 years worth
Go to your local sporting goods store and buy a long gun cleaning kit for a 12 gauge shotgun,it has 3 rods you can screw together, numerous pads and scrub brushes that screw on the end, around $20-$25. It works like a charm!
Hi TJ, and thanks for commenting on our video. We’re glad to hear you found an option that works well for cleaning between your oven door glass! We do recommend using caution when using a cleaning method that differs from our instructions, as we won’t have tested other methods for safety and reliability.
If you wish, you’re welcome to provide the model number for your appliance, here or over our GE Appliances social media. We’d be glad to provide more cleaning and maintenance information, if that might be helpful for you.
We’re also glad to help any time if you ever have any other concerns or questions - we’re wishing you all the best! -SG
Mine is a Gas stove, would the same applies to an Electric stove?
Hello. Yes! This method can be used to clean an electric stove! Please let us know if you have any additional questions. -AT
I took my door apart to remove the front glass, the I have a large drip in between the inner window that seems to be sealed. Am I missing something? Model number JB650D T1BB
Hi! Thanks for reaching out. We don't recommend taking the appliance, or its parts, apart. This is for safety reasons. If the spot is not coming up after following the directions shown in this video, then we'd recommend repeating the cleaning to see if it helps. We do not have alternate cleaning methods for cleaning between the glass on an oven door.
If you have other questions about your appliances, know that we're happy to help. -MS
@@geappliances Thanks, I did end up taking the door apart, but the interior glass was permanently fixed into a metal frame with no way to remove it. I put the framed glass into my tub with Dawn dishwashing soap and let the gap between the glass with with soapy water. I drained it and let it refill several times. I then heated it up in the over to evaporate the water from between the two panes of glass. It helped with the drips, but it still has a brown hue from grease that could not be removed.
We are sorry to hear this process didn't help completely. You can always reach out to GE Consumer Service at 1-800-432-2737 and schedule an appointment. Please review the following link:
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Oven windows are made of glass that has gone through a coating process to make it stand up to the high temperatures to which it will be subjected. From some angles, it may appear to look like a rainbow. This is normal. The coating is actually somewhat metallic and helps to reflect heat back into the oven, and aids in keeping the door cool. If you have any questions, please let us know. We are here to help! JW
Nice sharing stay connected
Thanks. I just needed to know where the opening was lol. Bottom!
Soy de México y me ayudó bastante para limpiar mi estufa..! Mil gracias por este tutorial ..
Designed by rich people, who have cleaning crews to do this stuff, at their house.
Don't be ridiculous.
Rich people don't have shitty glass top GE ranges. They have ranges that were designed properly, so liquids can't get between the panes of glass in the door 🤣
What a crap way to have to clean it. Can't believe they had the confidence to make this video.
Right?! What board meeting produced this ridiculous mess of instruction? Two grown men, (breastfeeding mom has two on hand somewhere) just grab a yardstick (because those are just sold everywhere) easy peasy
leave the door on and use a clothing steamer.may take a couple trys if very dirty
Hi Brandee, thanks for posting. We have not tested this method and would suggest that you follow the video's method for the safest way of cleaning your oven door. Enjoy your afternoon. -SF
I'm a renter... an oven baking glass explored in the oven. I have lasagna sauce and bits of ground beef inside and i don't know what to do about it 🤔😥😣
Best move out quickly!
Are you kidding me? My stove was very expensive and this is the solution???? Even if I did do this, it wouldn't be clean and clear like a glass window should be.
Hello Barabooboo, thanks for reaching out to us with your range concerns. While your glass window may never need to be cleaned, if needed, this procedure does clean it very well. -SF
You are so right, Baraboodoo. Then the manufacturer has the gall to remind us that.trying to clean the mess (which would have never happened in the first place if their damn design had been up to snuff) by removing the oven door VOIDS the mfr's warranty! The mfr's idiotic solution? Call in a SERVICE TECH to remove the door...yeah, like a SERVICE TECH is going to patiently STAND AROUND IN THE KITCHEN for an hour and watch as we scrub away at two pieces of filthy, grease-spattered glass...then, when we're finally finished, good-naturedly fit it all back together again and reattach the oven door. I hope when he leaves he doesn't forget his suit of armor and the white horse he left at the front door.
@@yvonnebradford2072 You are just too funny! You have my vote...whatever you want to be!
@@yvonnebradford2072 Yep. He'll stand around while YOU clean it and charge you for his time standing around. Ridiculous design that is just a money grab.
Huh. At my oven I just took off every piece of glass wash with cif well until.sparkle clean then put back . Didnt read and watch anything. And was quik and easier then try to scrub between glass. Put back and voila ..clean