What a stinker!

Okay so the smoky oven wasn't just for pizza night. I didn't realize how much charred garlic butter smells after being consecutively cooked. Let me start from the beginning, so a few days after the garlic pizza incident I was preparing manicotti. I pre-heated the oven and noticed the burnt garlic pizza smell was back. That is right I forgot to clean the oven and the garlic butter was just roasting on the bottom of the oven. It was sizzling and smoking, and the smell was just as bad the second time as it was the first. I had already stuffed the manicotti so I felt obligated to follow through so I reluctantly put the dish in and kept the oven door closed until the manicotti was done cooking. When it was time to take out the manicotti the garlic butter had plenty of time to brew up a good smoke cloud, so we did the usual drill, of opening all the windows and lighting the candles. The manicotti was delicious if you could get past the eye watering smell of you guest it burnt garlic butter.

Here is a picture of my delicious manicotti.

















Fast forward a day or two and I still hadn't cleaned the oven and I was craving macaroni and cheese with breaded fish fillets, so since we didn't have any oven cleaner and I was determined to get that black garlic butter crustiness cleaned off of the bottom of the oven I reached for the 409. It is suppose to cut grease so why wouldn't it cut through crusty garlic butter? After I let it soak in and I gave it some elbow grease I didn't do much but make a black swampy mess, so I gave up. I cleaned up what I could and I put some tin foil down. I figured it might help keep the smoke down to a minimum. I'm not sure which was a worse, the 409 or the tin foil? Well we are still alive so the 409 didn't kill us after eating the fish + 409 vapors at 425 degrees. The tin foil probably helped heat the crusty black burnt garlic butter more than if I would have left it off. The smoke that creped out from under the tin foil was brown and smelt even worse then the first or second time.At this point I gave up and I decided I was absolutely not going to cook in the oven unless I bought real approved oven cleaner. :) So that is what I did. Boy that oven cleaner works wonders. How in the world does it lift that crusty black crap off from the bottom of the oven. I was amazed at how clean it go my oven.

BOTTOM LINE: Use real approved oven cleaner and don't cook garlic butter crust pizza without at pan. PLEASE! Or least in my oven!