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Traditional oven cleaner is lye, it chemically turns the baked on fat and oil to soap. This soap then helps clean off the other baked on stuff.

I don't know (yet) how the new lye free oven cleaners work.

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The use of oven cleaner involves a chemical change. The active ingredients in the cleaner react with the residues in the oven to break them down into simpler substances, which can be wiped away.

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