About 10 days ago I washed the air filter for my vacuum. I set it on the window to dry, but it was cold, so I put it in the oven to warm it up... the oven was about 30C, an hour after baking something.
Later, I forgot it was there. I looked very quickly, and didn't see the small black colored filter in the oven, assumed the oven was empty, and set it to self clean. Then I went to bed. An hour later the fire alarm woke me. I turned off the oven, and evacuated the pets outside to escape the fumes. Now the oven can not be used. The air filter vaporized and has coated the oven in something like plastic, silicone, or grease. I tried oven cleaner, but it does not eat this residue very well. It is coated in every corner and crack, even behind the light bulb, and I have no doubt it is very unhealthy. I thought about using acid I have at work, which eats stone, but this acid may also eat the paint on the inside of the oven, and I still will not be able to clean in all the cracks and corners. The only idea I can think of, aside from buying a new oven, is to move it outside and run self clean again (twice). This will be wildly bad for the environment, but my primary concern is my health and the quality of my food after. Buying a new oven, and putting this one in land fill, would not be better for the environment. Would running self clean, twice, basically ensure that the residue has been decomposed to a state that is harmless to my health? To complicate the situation, the oven is not only coated in the plastic residue, but also with oven cleaner. Running self clean will probably ignite the entire oven in flames. robert
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