Fourth of July Tomato Pie

Yesterday I made ten Fourth of July tomato pies for my friends. I had gotten a case of tomatoes from the farmers market and needed to use them up before going on my road trip. The pies turned out great, but my ovens were more than a little dirty when I was done.
Tonight for our Independence Day dinner I reheated our pie and the smoke billowed out of the oven into the kitchen. I decided it was time to clean the oven. What better time than Fourth of July night? Carter was going to a party and Russ and I are home chilling.
Cleaning my oven is not really much work since it is “self cleaning.” It means I push a button and the oven locks and heats itself up to a very high temperature and burns all the gunk in the oven up. Well, maybe tonight wasn’t the best time. The house got smoked up. We had to open all the windows and doors to keep the smoke alarm from going off and it is just a little muggy to have the doors open.
I am not sure I have an answer to keep this from happening again, except for not cooking at all. I wonder if I clean it more often if it would smoke as much. I feel like it would still smoke and that means smoking up the house more often.
I hope everyone enjoyed their pies. Tomato pie is a family favorite here at our house and I am not making one pie at a time. In the end the dirty oven is worth it.