Oven cleaning can often be the longest chore to tackle, especially when you’re using the wrong products.

While white vinegar and baking soda are the top two ingredients cleaning influencers recommend for cleaning the oven, there is a natural product one woman claimed “worked better” – cleaning experts agree.

Taking to the Mrs Hinch Cleaning Tips and Tricks Facebook page, Becca Dwyer shared a picture of her mother’s oven glass door that was covered in dark brown, almost black, grease and grime and revealed what she used to get it “sparkling” again.

She wrote: “Hi. This is the glass from my mother’s oven door I was cleaning her oven today as she can’t bend down. 

“I’ve tried Pink Stuff paste, Elbow Grease cream, dishwasher tablet, aerial pod also baking soda and vinegar but nothing shifted it.”

If you search for oven-cleaning hacks online, lots of sources will tell you to use a paste made from baking soda and vinegar. However, the mixture of baking soda and vinegar is ineffective when it comes to scrubbing filthy oven glass.

Instead, Becca tried something different. She said: “Someone then suggested soda crystals to me and it worked so much better than anything I’ve tried. It’s now sparkling.”

Even the experts at Dri-Pak agreed that baking soda and vinegar were ineffective. They said: “One thing that isn’t really the best solution, despite lots of internet tips, is to use bicarbonate of soda and then add white vinegar. 

“The effect will be reduced because the acid white vinegar is neutralising the alkalinity of the baking soda and it’s that that dissolves the grease.”

Instead, they recommend using soda crystals too. They said: “Soda crystals are excellent for dissolving grease and working on stubborn, burnt-on food.”

Households can make up a strong soda crystals solution or try liberally spraying liquid soda crystals on their oven door and the rest of the oven. 

Leave the soda crystals to treat for at least 20 minutes before wiping down the oven.

Repeat the process on any stubborn areas of the oven or apply some dry soda crystals which can act as an abrasive and scrub with a cloth.