Ceiling Elements

98% of the time, I will not clean the ceiling of an oven due to the fixed heating element; these are easily damaged if hit with a scraping blade.

Only 2% of ovens and microwaves I clean have an element drop-down system, allowing the element to pivot down, giving access to clean the ceiling.

If an oven is badly dirty, it will smoke. I have seen the ceiling and elements looking like solid, thick black crude oil creating stalactites! In this scenario, the only solution would be to have an engineer replace the element and have the ceiling cleaned beforehand.

The only manufactures who I have seen using drop-down heating elements are Miele and Smeg but this is only on selected models.