Last night when Chad and Nicole were here, I don’t even know how it got started but I ended up being chastised because I won’t clean my oven. About a month ago, something sticky and probably greasy spilled in it. After it cooled, I wiped it down as best I could but it’s still a mess. I figured if the new stove would be here in 2 – 4 months as originally told to us, it should be here in July. So, I have a wall oven I can use so my plan was to leave the main oven alone, let it be taken away as is.
I tried explaining that it stinks when the oven is cleaning. I can’t use the top of the stove during the cleaning cycle and it seems like it’s never a convenient time to not have access to the stovetop. I didn’t want to do it while we were away or sleeping. It’s too hot and muggy this time of year to have the windows open and we till have an oven we can use so why bother? Nope . . I was a lazy slug for not cleaning my oven. Really Chad and Vince were just having fun picking on me.
This morning I decided to clean it. The wall oven isn’t convection and I miss not being able to use that feature in the big oven so once I finished cooking the English Muffins this morning, the cleaning process began.
Vince came in from outside outside and said “What’s that smell?” Ahhh . . I’m cleaning the oven. Then he said “I’m turning the a/c colder . . it’s hot in here and I told him the oven cycle takes about four hours so it’s going to be hot for a while.
Since the new target date for the oven is September or October, my guess is it won’t be here for Thanksgiving so I’ll need that oven but, I guess I could have waited til it was cooler and I could open the windows. Oh well . . it’s started so it’s happening today.
I stirred up a batch of crawfish cornbread that I’ll bake in the wall oven and we’ll have leftover broccoli salad and leftover baked beans for our mid-afternoon meal.
The wall oven could use a cleaning cycle too but that’s not happening today.
For now, I’m going down to the sewing room where it’s clean and not stinky and I’ll sit and stitch with Boots.
vivoaks says
Hahaha! I wanted to check out your crawfish cornbread recipe, but was taken to Amazon instead…. Not that I would ever make crawfish cornbread. (1. We don’t have crawfish easily accessible here in Western PA; and 2. If I made it I’d be the only one to touch it…) I got a good look at the needlework stand you were looking at, though! ?
Judy Laquidara says
That’s the needlework stand Chad found at a flea market for me yesterday for less than 1/3 of the Amazon price. 🙂
I did fix the link. Sorry.
Carolyn says
Cleaning the oven is WAY down the list of things I want or need to do. Mine will actually come apart so that it could be done in the sink. I don’t think I have ever cleaned it like that
Judy Laquidara says
I have never seen one that will do that. All I had to do when it was done was wipe the ashes out. I figured . . heck, while the house already smells like a cooking disaster, I’d just clean the other one too. It should be done about 10:30 p.m. but I’ll wait til tomorrow after it cools down before wiping out the ashes.
I’m not sure I ever cleaned the oven in Texas. We had that stove probably 6 or 7 years but I never made a mess like I have here. Once skewer full of pork chunks fell off the tray and I didn’t know it so all the pineapple juice and fat from the pork cooked on the bottom of the oven. Then last night I made the blueberry buckle in a pan that was too small and a lot of the topping ended up on the bottom of the oven. I must do better!!
Nelle Coursey says
My oven is so old, it is a self cleaning oven or continuous clean!! I think Mr. Perkins from Southwest Appliance told me it was a 1967 model! Pat was ready to get a new one, but I talked him out of it!!
Peggi says
I had a repair man once tell me to not use the self-cleaning cycle on ovens, because the high temps shorten the life of the wiring/circuitry in the control panel. Fortunately the stove we bought 4-5 years ago has a low-temp self-clean cycle. You pour a couple cups of water on the bottom and it heats to about 140° F for a couple hours, then you wipe it out. Unfortunately, it’s a glass-top model so I can’t can on it. 🙁