Home cooking appliance having an integrated door glass surface cleaner for automatic removal of cooking debris

Abstract

A home cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking cavity and a door movable between a closed state and an open state for providing access to an opening of the cooking cavity. The door has a glass surface facing an interior of the cooking cavity when the door is in the closed state, and at least a portion of the door is configured to be retractable into a position adjacent to a wall of the cooking cavity upon moving the door into the open state. The appliance includes a surface cleaning mechanism on the housing and configured to remove debris from at least a portion of the glass surface during at least one of a retraction of the door into the position adjacent to the wall of the cooking cavity and an extraction of the door from the position adjacent to the wall of the cooking cavity.

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