commodorified | Spring Cleaning

So I ... may have just spent about 6 hours cleaning the stove. 6 hours WITH HELP: Herself did the burner rings and bowls while I tackled the rest:

and then hung out helping me with bits and pieces and handing me things and shaking her head disbelievingly at the sight of me taking the stove apart into increasingly tiny manky pieces of mankiness and scrubbing them with glee until 2:30 when she sensibly went to bed.

This stove is VERY CLEAN.

The oven, which had a mince pie boil over in it at Christmas, is ALSO clean.

So in theory that should be it for cleaning the stove, except ...

A few years ago I discovered that you can lift up the tops of stoves to clean them. I was mildly irate at my mother for not having told me this, until I did it to her stove and she said "How did you just do that?"

So THEN I should TOTALLY have been done, except...

It has bugged the crap out of me for years that you could clean the outside of the glass on an oven window, but it never looked clean because you couldn't get at the inside panes, which always get streaky and full of condensation and all sorts of Nameless Horrors.

So tonight I finally figured out both how to take the door of my oven off and how to take it apart to clean the insides, which never having been cleaned before were manky with the mank of more than a decade.

It really is possible that I am much too excited about this. I am slightly disturbed.

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northern

Woot - loads of points if you're on Chorewars!

mercurybard

I...did not want to know that you could take apart the stove to that level. Wow. So much I am NOT cleaning right now.

con_girl

So, umm, want to come do mine?

After you do the other stove over there :)

Stoves didn't always have the car hood design. Oddly, they don't seem to promote this amazing feature.

fajrdrako

My goodness. I need to clean my oven, I really do. But when can I find the time? Not in the middle of the night, no. So... when?

pocketmouse

The first times lifted the top off my oven, I thought it was broken.

twistedchick

Okay. How do you take the door apart?

jae

Wow. My oven is certainly not that clean.

-J

indywind

That is freaking impressive. Is there an instructable or youtube howto video for the taking apart?

giglet

That is an awesomely, awesomely clean stove and oven! I salute you, ma'am!

(Says the woman who has to clean the oven this week. T'husband spent about 2 hours on the stovetop and underlid last week.)

brownbetty

That is one clean oven!

dorothy1901

I am in awe.

cpolk

I would love to know how you clean in inside f the oven door glass. that drives me mental.

recessional

You are mighty and shall be numbered amongst the great cleaners of old.

mmegaera

The things that make us homeowners bounce. Yesterday I got all excited about getting my toilet flappers replaced (one of them broke, and it turns out you should get them replaced every few years to prevent this, so I had the other one done pre-emptively as well). Yes, I probably could have done it myself, but it would have taken me enough time and aggravation to way more than pay the few bucks my moonlighting plumber asked for.