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Spring Cleaning
Mar. 27th, 2012 06:35 amSo 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.
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.
