When doing research for this restoration, I did come across a suggestion about using the self cleaning feature on my oven. But some other comments suggested that self cleaning might put a lot of strain on the oven’s components, for a task which could also be achieved chemically.

So to see how my oven might behave, I set it to the highest temperature (550 F; 290 C) for 20 minutes. What happened was that the crud in the oven started smoking so badly that I had to cut the experiment short. Apparently I need to also clean my oven but I didn’t want to start a second project just to finish the first one. I’m lazy lol

So in my case, a hot oven was also a no-go. But a bonfire would have been awesome to do. For science, of course.