How do you clean melted plastic out of an oven?

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This malady just occurred with me. In my instance, it was a very light pan lid and had just finished melting all over everything. I let the oven cool down a bit but not completely and then took a metal knife and chipped at the plastic gobs. They were hard enough to come off as a full gob but still melted enough to bend. I didnt bother wiping it off while it was still liquid because that would have just smeared it everywhere. I figured the thicker the plastic is the stronger it will be when it gets semi-hard making it easier to pull off as one full \"gob\". I dont think its best to wait until the plastic has completely cooled as that will allow it to completely adhere to whatever its sticking to. But I did not allow it to get to that point so I really dont know if my guess is true. My advice, just wait a little bit until the oven is warm and you can peel the plastic off easily.

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Ironic I should see this question here!! Two months ago, a Tupperware lid was hiding inside my oven between two clean pans unbeknownst to me. Well, I turned on the oven to preheat it for a meatloaf and 15 minutes later, putrid smoke was wafting out of the oven door cracks. My son starts screaming, I opened the oven door and the lid was on fire. Scared the crap out of us. All the new oxygen when I opened the door made it bigger. I quickly grabbed the empty blender container sitting on the counter, filled it with water from the sink (7 seconds) and threw it on the fire. I did this two more times and then ran to the circuit breaker on my bedroom wall (apartments) and shut EVERYTHING OFF. The smoke alarm went off too. I didn't turn the oven circuit breaker for 2 days. During that time I chiseled, sopped, wiped, and Easy-off'd the whole thing. The racks were ruined. The plastic adhered to it completely. When the oven was spotless, I turned the circuits back on and it kept smoking and popping randomly and shorted out (sounded like 4th of July) when I was in the shower and the oven wasn't even on. SCARED ME TO DEATH. I called the fire dept to make sure the house wasn't going to go up in flames. As it turned out, my landlord replaced the whole range with a smooth top 2005 model. I didn't tell him about the lid fire, though. I didn't want him to think I was a flake to worry about. The old range was 35 years old anyway. Out with the old, in the new.

Anyway, melted plastic, once it dries is VERY hard to remove without ruining the coils and racks. Good luck.

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