When Life Hands You Lemons, Use Them To Clean Your Oven (With No Effort)

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When Life Hands You Lemons, Use Them To Clean Your Oven (With No Effort) By Karen Hart Oct. 29, 2025 6:39 am EST

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Lemons are not just for making a delicious lemon olive oil bundt cake or that easy lemon chicken on a work night. This citrus has a superpower that goes beyond the culinary. Did you know it can also help keep your oven clean? Lemons are oozing with citric acid, and it just so happens that this naturally occurring compound can cut through grease and grime plaguing your appliance in an efficient manner that also makes your kitchen smell bright and lemony. It will loosen that burnt-on, baked-on residue leftover from meals past while neutralizing odors that might be making your kitchen a little smelly.

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