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Dear Messers Bosch, Neff, and others.

You know that strip between the oven door and the oven itself, where detritus collects?

You know how you keep making it out of aluminium?

You know how caustic soda corrodes aluminium?

You know what oven cleaner is made of?

You stupid or something?

@goatsarah I can’t use oven cleaner in my 1980s era miele. Supposedly the surface is catalytic. All I know is it works great at keeping the junk off.
Sadly, I can’t get new door gaskets, so I’ve got may a couple more years until I need to learn how to vulcanize rubber or something to make new ones

@josephholsten @goatsarah A cerium-based one? How exciting! Cerium is one of those slacker elements when it comes to applications and people always say "self-cleaning ovens" as if that's sufficient justification to occupy a slot in the periodic table. I've known a few folk with self-cleaning ovens and they've never been a cerium catalytic one.

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@chiffchaff @goatsarah Not certain. Miele H 806 B2. Looks like it’s a similar process, if not the exact catalyst.