Cleaning my oven on my day off

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 10:44 am

I don't use my oven much, but every year I clean it. Boy, does this job blow. First, you spray that toxic cleaner that makes you gag and weez and then you spend a half an hour on your knees reaching into the oven to clean the thick brown sludge out.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 12:35 pm

Is there some allegorical aspect to this that I'm missing ? If not , having spent some time in these quiet summer days cleaning parts of my shop , I could not agree more . How could I have worked surrounded by such filth!

maria · Post by **maria** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 3:58 pm

Yeh, but after the gag and weez, the brown gluey sludge and mountain of rancid kitchen roll comes the high, perhaps off the clean oven? But I've always suspected there's somet upper behind all that lemony zing. Perhaps we're on to something here. Should we cut it down into foil packs and head for town? It's Saturday night after all.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 4:25 pm

When I finished uni every year, me and my pal used to have a massive clean of the kitchen before we left our accomodation (so we didn't get deposit deducted from)...and it always took the best part of a day, even though we usually had a really clean kitchen. No, seriously...clean student digs!
I reccomend those wirey brushes to clean the oven, as long as you're not worried about scratches...

Gillibeanz · Post by **Gillibeanz** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 5:16 am

Ice - just a suggestion why dont you give it a wipe over each time you do use it? That way you wouldnt have a mammouth job yearly and the fat doesnt get baked on like concrete!

Another neat tip to save cleaning is to line your grill pan and the top of your hob and the bottom of your oven with silver foil (dunno what you call it over there but its the foil you cook your chicken etc in). Just cut out holes for the electric/gas rings. Then all you have to do when it gets mucky is throw it away! Also saves on the cooking bills as it reflects the heat and things cook quicker.

Now im going to shut the **** up and stop boring you with all this useless drivvel!!

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 5:26 am

I recommend cleaning your freezer instead (as I did yesterday). Just sit back and watch it melt.

maria · Post by **maria** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:45 am

Thank the lord, he has 9 lives

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:03 pm

Self-cleaning ovens are where it's at, kiddies.

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 8:11 pm

Thanks for the household tips everyone. I have tried covering the burners with aluminum foil before, Gilli, but it's so much effort to cut the foil and wrap the foil around the burners.

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:44 am

You can all breath easy. I am done cleaning my kitchen. All that's left to do is mop the floor.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:53 am

are you hiring out for this kind of work? my kitchen could use you.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:01 am

Surely you just get the maid to clean it. That's what we do at Verbal Towers

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:11 am

I bought him the outfit, but Mr. Swung refuses to wear it.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:17 am

Has it got the proper feather duster though?

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:19 am

Nah, Verbal. If I know Mr. Swung, it's because the lacy apron didn't have a pocket to put his beer can in.

marblefaun · Post by **marblefaun** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:30 am

Well, it looks as though I'll be cleaning my ENTIRE kitchen from top to bottom since I dropped 15 lbs. of dog food all over it. That's what happens when you have 2 hungry bucking bronco dogs at your feet and one complaining hungry cat at 7am AND the dog food bin is on a shelf way up over your head.
Any tips for getting rid of dog food dust?

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:44 am

I think dogs are pretty good at licking it up...

marblefaun · Post by **marblefaun** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:53 am

Yes but then you have everything covered in dog saliva!!!

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:56 am

Yes, but if you have two dogs, everything is covered in dog saliva anyway!