My OperaEasy ways to clean your stove tops
Saturday, May 29, 2010 8:59:04 PM
It always would seem that you have more things than you remember when you have to place it all into a truck and drive it away. When we first moved into the condominium, it took us one trip with a Tacoma, and we were done. Only three years later, it took me two trips in my ten food U-Haul and about twelve trips in my brother-in-law's truck; I still had enough junk to fill and entire dumpster. Where did I get all this stuff from? I didn't go to cheap furniture stores or garage sales on a regular basis. It is just remarkable how mess seems to multiply.
After all that challenging work, there is still all the housecleaning I had to do in order to get back my security deposit back. I am also amazed at how dirty everything seemed now the clutter had been carried away. There were grease stains on the carpet from my bike, teeny little nail holes in the dry wall that needed filling in, mildew on the tiles and around the taps in the bathroom and the kitchen. I don't even want to mention those little drip pans that were caked with grease from almost three years worth of meals
My hypothesis on ovens was that they are all kind of self cleaning. If you leave the burner on long enough and let it burn hot enough, all that crud underneath it should just burn away right? I was so very wrong. I know the truth, the longer you leave those little drip catchers without cleaning them, the more hopeless it is to clean them. I even tried to soak them in the strongest degreaser I could find at the time, and left them soak for over 8 hours. I did benefit slightly, but not nearly enough. It only took about half the grease off. I really should just have bought new ones.
After all that challenging work, there is still all the housecleaning I had to do in order to get back my security deposit back. I am also amazed at how dirty everything seemed now the clutter had been carried away. There were grease stains on the carpet from my bike, teeny little nail holes in the dry wall that needed filling in, mildew on the tiles and around the taps in the bathroom and the kitchen. I don't even want to mention those little drip pans that were caked with grease from almost three years worth of meals
My hypothesis on ovens was that they are all kind of self cleaning. If you leave the burner on long enough and let it burn hot enough, all that crud underneath it should just burn away right? I was so very wrong. I know the truth, the longer you leave those little drip catchers without cleaning them, the more hopeless it is to clean them. I even tried to soak them in the strongest degreaser I could find at the time, and left them soak for over 8 hours. I did benefit slightly, but not nearly enough. It only took about half the grease off. I really should just have bought new ones.
