How to clean your oven grates

Don't you hate scrubbing the grates of your oven?  It never fails you have a self clean oven and you take the grates out to clean and it doesn't work.  So I took to the web to try and find an easy way to clean them.  I saw one that was simply putting putting dryer sheets in a bath tube and letting them soak overnight.  Then simply wiping them down.  Seemed easy enough for me; so I thought I would give it a go.

So here is what I did.

Place towels down in the tub.  This isn't a necessity, but I didn't want to accidentally scratch the tub.

Place a layer of dryer sheets over the towels.  I used 13.
 No special reason why.
I had a bunch from a couponing expedition a while back, so I went crazy;
plus I have a double oven so I had 6 grates to let soak.

Add the grates on top of the dryer sheets. 

Add water.  Make sure to put enough to completely cover the grates.

Let soak for 18-20 hours.

Try not to let your children see that you are using their tube.  My daughter freaked out a little when she saw her tub.  I promised to clean the tub when I was done (and take her for ice cream...that seemed to work better).

The next morning I simply wiped them down with the dryer sheets.  I spent maybe a minute on each of the grates.  It worked well.  I have no after photos, because as soon as they were clean; my husband had a pizza in the oven.  Well, they were clean for a couple of moments.  Back to reality.  Next time, I will only do a few at a time.  I think that will work better, but overall I am happy with the results.  Give it a try and let me know how it goes.