Cheery's country living adventure

rtandon27

Cheery_Daff said:

...I was just getting over excited about the new oven 😂😂 ...

I'm totally with you on this Cheery - we just got our oven cleaned (3 months after moving in) - and are now looking for excuses to use it! We've baked pizza, quiche & fish+chips - once a day since it was cleaned Holidays next week, so am hoping to do a bit of baking - perhaps a loaf of banana bread or some dried fruit & nut muffins.

...side benefit is that we get a blast of extra warmth into the ground floor each time we use it!

Karmacat

Clean ovens are blissful.  Ovens are blissful!  Warm kitchens even more so  

Baileys_Babe

Our oven and hob both need a thorough clean before Friday and no doubt they will need to be done again after Christmas dinner.

themadvix

Cleaning.... an oven? What is this?

(*skulks out the back door after admitting oven has never been cleaned and would only be cleaned if a) the Queen was coming or b) we actually do move*)

badmemory

You may think your oven is dirty, but I doubt you really know what dirty is.  I thought mine was dirty, well it is over 20 yrs old & I certainly haven't cleaned it more than twice.  Although to be fair to myself I do work on keeping it clean, like making sure pizza can't drip on the base of it etc.  But a friend was kind enough to give me her 1 yr old oven when she moved in with her friend.  It is still in the garage because it needs a major clean, so much that I am thinking of getting a company in to do it.  And I thought she was really picky but obviously I am a lot more picky - who would have thought it, certainly not me.

themadvix

I do have a tray in the bottom to save the oven itself, it’s true. I definitely think you should get someone to clean the oven for you Badmemory - it’s such a horrible job and more thankless if it’s not even your mess. I don’t think it’s that expensive - I looked into it when our move was imminent.

EssexHebridean

The grill pan for ours sits in the bottom of the bottom oven and collects drips - I just line it with foil so I can change it every....ummmm....well....so I can change it, let's leave it there. (It does get done every time after I grill chops, mind!)

badmemory

themadvix said:

I do have a tray in the bottom to save the oven itself, it’s true. I definitely think you should get someone to clean the oven for you Badmemory - it’s such a horrible job and more thankless if it’s not even your mess. I don’t think it’s that expensive - I looked into it when our move was imminent.

I must confess to not even having opened the oven door yet.  The outside has red all splashed down it & the top is so sticky with grease Yuck.  I suspect that the last couple of months before she moved out the boyfriend was doing all the cooking & like so many men of his age just don't "see" the mess.

I too line the grill pan with a thicker than usual foil & have a large tray in the bottom of the oven covered with foil.  So it is just a case of removing the foil from time to time. I have had one of those oven liners for some time but I really need to give it a good clean before I use then.  Perhaps I may get a discount for having 2 cookers cleaned!

Karmacat

Yikes to unusually dirty ovens - my oven smells of chocolate quite a lot it's all the frugal brownies I make  and I've put too much oil in the baking tin underneath the greaseproof paper, I think, quite a bit has gone into the tin at the bottom.  Two years since I had the new kitchen installed, no oven cleaning has happened in that time, I can now happily confess! 

When I first arrived here, I cleaned the *old* oven, and the reaction of my lungs made me read the health warnings on the bottle of oven cleaner I'd bought.  Never again!  Scraping, soaking, soap and water, those chemicals are never touching anything I use for food again!

starnac

EssexHebridean said:

The grill pan for ours sits in the bottom of the bottom oven and collects drips - I just line it with foil so I can change it every....ummmm....well....so I can change it, let's leave it there. (It does get done every time after I grill chops, mind!)

Same here. I totally despise cleaning the oven so doing it this way means that it needs cleaning less.