Removing Gluten From An Oven

[Nike-D]

I just moved into a new apartment and am not certain what I should do to remove any traces of gluten from the oven. It looks as if it was thoroughly cleaned. Does using the clean setting work? I've heard you cannot burn gluten away by putting on the clean setting. Is that true? Thanks so much!

[Bobbijo6681]

From what I understand the cleaning setting should do the trick....If you have a cast iron skillet that is the recommeneded way to de-gluten it.

[RiceGuy]

That's a tough one. However, given that the inside surfaces of ovens are usually fairly smooth, I'd hope it could be reliably cleaned well enough to be deemed safe.

The tricky spots might be where the racks are held in place, and at the joints of the wires of the racks themselves. Any tight corners too, like the edges of the glass in the door, hinges, etc.

[Bobbijo6681]

Also...an easy solution is to not put any food directly on the oven racks, as long as your food doesn't touch the rack it wouldn't be glutened. Trick spots mentioned above are good things to clean, but it would be very unlikely that this would touch your food.

personally I would run the cleaning cycle and be done with it, but I am not overly sensitive or overly paranoid about gluten. I am careful about when I eat and where I eat, and only use certain things...etc, but I don't freak out over every little thing. If running non porious items through the dishwasher is considered decontaminated, I would assume that the running of the clean cycle n an oven would be fine.

[Nike-D]

Thanks. I'm unfortunately very sensitive. It doesn't take much to make me sick. It's a drag. However, I'm relatively newly diagnosed (8 months or so) and being this careful has kept me from getting sick. I'll probably do a combination of cleaning the oven with cleaning solution and using the clean setting just to be certain there's no residue. Thanks again!