There is no need to replace your oven following the treatment. If done properly, you’ll be able to kill off the unwanted roaches and still be able to use the oven like you could before the roaches ever arrived.

The first thing you need to do is remove all the food you can, as well as pans and pots, from the oven. Getting it clean will prevent the roaches from having any local food supply so the treatment will be more effective.

Once the oven is emptied and cleaned, apply our Roach Gel bait to the perimeter as well as the back and up under the front kickplate. For most ovens, making 20-30 small placements will do the job. This gel bait is highly attractive to the roaches. They’ll quickly find it and feed – especially if you have removed all alternate food options – and this will lead to their certain death. The roach gel is odorless and easy to use as explained in our roach control article. Expect most of the roaches to be dead in the first 2 weeks. Apply more gel after 2 weeks and by the 5-6 week, the problem will probably be resolved. If you still see roaches in the oven after 6 weeks, apply one more series of placements to get complete control. You can clean out the oven again after the problem is resolved and no more roaches are thought to be present.

Treating cockroaches that are nesting in your stove will require some patience. If you’ve found them “inside” the actual part where you bake food, then it will also take a little time to get the job done right. It would be best to leave this part of the stove alone for at least 2 weeks; a full month left unused would be ideal. This will allow the treatment to take full effect. You can still use the top of the stove, i.e., the burners, without any problem so the stove will be useable. Just don’t bake anything during this time.

The best product to use in this case will be the Cockroach Gel. Place 5-10 dabs inside the oven, some more underneath on the bottom broiler side as well as up under the burner cover. 15-25 placements throughout the stove will really help. Try not to use the burners for at least 2 days so all that are outside the oven will surely find the bait and feed. The oven should be left alone for at least the two weeks previously mentioned to insure all inside get some of the gel. If you notice the gel is all gone in 2-3 days place some more out. When you’re ready to start using the stove again, just give the inside a good cleaning  and let it “burn” for 30 minutes prior to it’s first use to insure any/all contaminates (mostly from the roaches) are burned away and you should be roach free!