Did the power scrubber clean the baked-on grease on my oven window?

And the answer is . . .just about.

Yesterday afternoon I had an hour to spare. I thought this would be a great time to "quickly" clean the oven door window, using Mrs. Meyers spray and the power scrubber.

before

I first tried the scouring sponge (yellow sponge with green scrubbing side). It didn't work as quickly as I wanted. I next tried the flat brush attachment. I could tell it was getting grime off as it turned the cleaning solution into a gray foam. But even so, it wasn't working as quickly as I had wanted. So I went for the stainless steel mesh brush. (It's under the microfiber flat polishing attachment in the photo below.)

The instructions say that this attachment is for the toughest jobs, like BBQ grills, oven racks, and range hoods. I was a little worried it might be too harsh on the glass surface. My worries were quickly allayed. It did just fine on the glass and the enameled steel parts of the door.

I worked for about 35 to 40 minutes on the inside of the window. It wasn't hard work, but it was slow going. Near the end, it seemed like I needed a less coarse tool to use on the glass to get those last tiny splatters of grease. I set the power scrubber down, donned some gloves, and grabbed a piece of steel wool. I spent 4-5 minutes with steel wool, putting some muscle into getting the splatters off, and voila a clean oven door. 

It was hard to get a photo of the how clean it is. That's the power scrubber on the floor beneath the open oven door in the photo below. The glass is so clean you can see through it again.

after

With the power scrubber and a little muscle to use a bit of steel wool at the end, I can get stubborn oven grease off of glass and enameled surfaces with somewhat ease. Could I have scrubbed with steel wool alone? Yes, but I think I would have needed several breaks. The 4 to 5 minutes of scrubbing I did at the end did tire my arm a little. 

The power scrubber is not a magic tool that will make every chore super fast and easy. But it does cut the work time by as much as half and effort by a whole lot compared to manual scrubbing. I'll be trying this tool on the stove top surface next. There's some stubborn carbon around the gas rings that I'd like to get rid of.

Sara, I also scrubbed the bottom of a stainless steel skillet. I did this in the sink. The scrubber did throw off dirty, carbon stained water in spatters onto the insides of the sink. However, no spatters ended up on the backsplash above the sink or on me.