Posted on 01/08/2014 12:26:39 PM PST by Little Bill
Suffering from zero weather conditions, lack of activity, and boredom, I decided to use the self cleaning feature on my gas range.
Now, my mother wasted a lot of money educating me in various fields that involved burning things, and people actually paid me a lot of money to help them do it correctly.
So I removed the internals of my oven and pushed the button marked CLEAN.
So I sat back and grabbed a brew to help me get through the cleaning time.
After the stove warmed up the smoke came billowing out, lots of smoke. So I opened all the windows and most of the doors, even broke out a couple of fans, to get rid of the acrid smoke.
The temperature of the house went down to meet the 10 degrees out side when the smoke finally went away.
I learned a lesson from this experiment, never hit the clean button buy a new stove.
I never saw my Ma clean an oven nor my Grand Ma's, but then Old Ma was an Executive Secretary for a large Corporation and was Irish to boot and God as my witness they cannot cook, my Daughter in Law is one of those.
Hehe. I cleaned mine after six years, just a couple months ago. Dang that oven was clean! After a few hours with the windows open, I was one happy homeowner.
Or is it, 5 years later, I am too lazy to find the original user manual?
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they’re also available on the web.
Now, a self cleaning oven, doing the jobs Americans won’t do. That right there is funny. :)
“Hey, let’s try THIS on the coldest day of the year!”
Bored? Take up whittling.
(all in good fun bill)
I have no experience with self-cleaning ovens but my rule during extreme cold spells (or hot spells - 110+) is TAKE NO RISKS AT ALL!
Pour some vinegar on the end of towel. Grab the dry end of the towel and spin it like you’re going to rope a calf. This will help to get rid of the smokey smell.
“The operative fact is that you waited for the coldest temps in 25 years to experiment. I understand, cabin fever . . . but that’s what the beer is for . . . .”
Most astute analysis, LOL.
Much depends on the ladies. My wife is a cleaning fanatic.
My Dear ex couldn’t use a dish washer.
I burt up in the drawer under the stove when he cleaned it
I have never cleaned an oven in my life!!! LOLOL
Oven clean cycles scare me more than vacuum cleaners.
“...this was user error.”
Not as bad as my brother-in-laws though. Bought a new stove, put a pizza in to try it out. Somehow put it on clean. And it has a “safety” lock bar on the thing so you can’t open it while it is cleaning. Four hours later his pizza was “done”. It did not ruin the stove though!
We recently (tried to) broil some steaks in the oven. Nice little filets from Omaha Steaks, a Christmas gift. FLAMES AND FIRE. Maybe due to the bacon wrap? Too close to the broiler?
My daughter wanted to use the fire extinguisher on them, and I said, NO WAY, not wanting to sacrifice the steaks. They ended up fine, and the smoke odors were pretty well cleared out of the house after 3 or 4 days.
Back when my first husband and I moved out of our first apartment in 1981 after 3 years, the landlord came and inspected everything, checked the oven. He was a proud Asian immigrant, probably quite successful with his few small apartment buildings. He said, “I no give you back the whole damage deposit. I keep $5 because you no clean the oven”. I remember thinking DEAL, could barely buy a can of oven cleaner for the $5, and this was before the self-cleaning type.
Lost those in a boating accident in the lake down the street.
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