I Thought I Bought the Deluxe Model!

(You may have to click on the comic below to read the caption)  I thought I bought the range that ‘did it all’!                                

Evidently NOT!                                                        

First of all, I can’t believe it has been 7 1/2 years  since I bought my new Maytag Range.  I also can’t believe I have never used the Self Cleaning oven feature on it! I should have taken ‘before’ pictures, but I probably would have been too embarrassed to show them anyway. 

A friend of ours got a new ‘used’ stove which was very much like my stove, with the glass top, and self cleaning oven. It ‘really’ needed cleaning, but the price was fantastic. I told her after a clean up, it would be good as new, but that I had never used my self cleaning oven, and I really should go home and try it.

I did just that. I came home, emptied the oven of cookie sheets and a cake pan or two, and oven racks, found the directions, opened a few windows, turned on a few ceiling fans, and turned it on. I let it cook for two hours, which was plenty of time to clean. I don’t know that I would recommend cleaning an oven in the winter time, though, because even with the ceiling fans and range vent going, and windows open, my eyes and nose did get a bit irritated. Louie holed up down in the basement watching a ‘Cubs’ game, and said he could smell it a little down there, but when he came upstairs, he said he was surprised the smoke alarm didn’t go off.

This is what the oven bottom looked like this morning after the cleaning, and before I wiped it out. It just had specks of white ash that wiped up with a wet cloth.

                                       This is what the inside of the oven door window looked like before I took a single edge razor blade to it, and soapy water.                                                                And after! You can see my pot rack which hangs above my stove in the reflection of the glass. Ooooo, baby!                  

                                           Now if I could just get those oven racks shining like new again…….                              

This got me thinking about a lot of other products we have bought over the years. We usually buy the products that have a lot of extra features, but realistically, we probably never ever use the products to their full potential.  Do you do things like us too?

Be blessed,

Michelle