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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on October 14, 2012, 07:21:44 PM
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Oh my.
The chronically-helpless primitive again.
Paper Roses (4,475 posts) Sun Oct 14, 2012, 07:37 PM
Plese suggest a cure! I have an electric stove with removable drip pans.
Every so often I have to replace the drip pans. I have bought expensive ones(Sears and HD) and cheaper ones at Target and Wal-Mart. After a point, they never seen to clean. I scrub with SOS and never seen to get the old shine back.
Tonight I tried again and I think it is time to replace them again.
Have any of you found a good way to clean these pans or is there a good replacement.
I don't let them get grungy, but sometimes when something boils over, I'm stuck until the burner cools. By then, the drip pan is a mess.
Any helps appreciated.
Sedona (1,159 posts) Sun Oct 14, 2012, 07:42 PM
1. magic eraser
after which an image of a name-brand cleaner; the one with Yul Brynner
mopinko (39,020 posts) Sun Oct 14, 2012, 07:54 PM
2. steamer
great for that sort of thing.
^^^the hypochondrial primitive.
Viva_La_Revolution (26,164 posts) Sun Oct 14, 2012, 07:56 PM
3. buy black ones
a little grunge doesn't show
Warpy (65,070 posts) Sun Oct 14, 2012, 07:57 PM
4. You are asking a few months too late!
What you need to do is save the ones with the baked on, burnt on grease in a dark green or black plastic trash bag under the sink.
Next June or so, when it gets really hot out there, open the bag full of cruddy drip pans and spray household ammonia over them. Shoot, throw the broiler in there, as well. Really soak them down. Then seal the bag and leave it in full sun.
Oh, say four or five hours later mosey on out there and open the bag (away from your face) and get out the garden hose. Wash off the ammonia and some of the residue. The rest should come off with a sponge. At that point, you will have the next year's worth of pristine drip pans all ready to go.
^^^needs no identification.
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Oh for crying out loud dummies!!!! Put some aluminum foil on the pans. Don't wanna do that? Oven cleaner works too. :thatsright:
Stupid morons. :loser: :loser: :loser:
And we are the idiots? :mental: :mental:
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Al-foil and regular cleaning. I swear. For the most smarterest demographic on the internets they can be pretty damn dense.
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I am pretty darn frugal, but the aluminum foil sets off my OCD for some reason, and SOS pads don't cut it, so I include the $$ to replace them every year in my Christmas budget.
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My question is this: is the chronically-helpless primitive a careless cook?
Does she put a pot of something on a burner and then go away? And then forget about it?
I don't cook much, but when the stove's on, I'm always right there in front of it. If I can, I wash some dishes in the nearby sink too, but I don't do anything where my eyes are away from the stove.
Stoves can be dangerous things, and need watched when they're turned on.
As a consequence, I have no boil-overs. I may have had one back when Carter or Reagan was president, but that's it.
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I still can't believe the chronically-helpless primitive.
When I have something turned on, I watch it, in case something goes wrong. I can't hear.
The chronically-helpless primitive is an old woman, older even than the pie-and-jam primitive or the CalPig primitive.
She's not as alert as she once was, and needs to understand that; she shouldn't just leave something running and go off to chitchat on the telephone or vacuum the living room or go and sit on the commode. If something goes wrong, she can't react as quickly, or Heaven forbid, given her age, forget all about something being on.
I'll bet she turns on the water to the bathtub, and then goes away to pull weeds from her garden, leaving it running.
Damn.
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I'll bet she turns on the water to the bathtub, and then goes away to pull weeds from her garden, leaving it running.
Damn.
I've always wondered if that little overflow drain hole in the bathtub can take away water as fast as the spigot can supply it.
I don't think it could, but I've never been motivated to conduct the test.
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I've always wondered if that little overflow drain hole in the bathtub can take away water as fast as the spigot can supply it.
I don't think it could, but I've never been motivated to conduct the test.
The one in the sink can't. :rofl:
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I've always wondered if that little overflow drain hole in the bathtub can take away water as fast as the spigot can supply it.
I don't think it could, but I've never been motivated to conduct the test.
For some really odd reason--maybe I take the predicaments of the ancient primitives too seriously--I thought about this one of those short times I awoke during the middle of the night.
Actually, I'm sure that the chronically-helpless primitive does this a lot, turning something on and leaving it on while she wanders away to do something else.
I suspect she burns food a lot, and has a lot of boilings-over, which accounts for the quick deterioration of those drip pans.
The chronically-helpless primitive has got to realize she's not as alert, not as on top of things, as she was when Eleanor and then Bess were in the White House. She's an old woman now, and needs to take old-woman precautions, so as to prevent injury to herself and damage to her kitchen equipment.
franksolich is a much younger, healthy, virile, vigorous male, but it doesn't bruise my ego to admit that I too have to take old-woman precautions because of deafness. It's just a fact of life, and one accepts, adapts, and moves on.
The chronically-helpless primitive, when she's cooking something on the stove, should stay right there, doing nothing else but watching to be sure something bad doesn't happen.
But I'll bet she puts something on the stove to cook, and then decides to go and yap on the telephone with Wanda or Freida or Wilma or Madge or Amelia or another of her friends "for just a couple of minutes," or she decides to go watch her soap-opera on television "for just a couple of minutes."
And then stuff on the stove boils over, or gets burned.
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I solved that problem a coupla years back. I put in a glass cook top.
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I solved that problem a coupla years back. I put in a glass cook top.
Well, that would take care of the problem about having to constantly clean or replace drip pans.
However, I suspect the chronically-helpless primitive would still over-boil or burn food, because she'll turn it on and leave and go somewhere else, maybe to hang around the primitives on Skins's island "for only a couple of minutes."
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Well, that would take care of the problem about having to constantly clean or replace drip pans.
However, I suspect the chronically-helpless primitive would still over-boil or burn food, because she'll turn it on and leave and go somewhere else, maybe to hang around the primitives on Skins's island "for only a couple of minutes."
Well, I have to admit I have been guilty of forgetting when I have somethin' on and get involved on the 'puter, so I wouldn't hold that against her. "Toots" gives me hell all the time for doin' it.
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Well, I have to admit I have been guilty of forgetting when I have somethin' on and get involved on the 'puter, so I wouldn't hold that against her. "Toots" gives me hell all the time for doin' it.
This goes back to the gist of my concern.
You can get away with it, because you're alert and on top of things, and can react faster.
The chronically-helpless primitive is an ancient old woman, and franksolich is deaf; our senses aren't as alert and quick; there's a great deal of damage that can happen with something before either of us are aware it's happening.
You might hear a piece of oven glassware start to crack, and act in time.
Unless they're watching, by the time the chronically-helpless primitive or franksolich knows something's wrong, it's already exploded all over inside of the oven, making a glorious mess.
The chronically-helpless primitive is not as young as she was 60 years ago; she's got to pay more attention to things than she did when Mamie was running the White House.
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This goes back to the gist of my concern.
You can get away with it, because you're alert and on top of things, and can react faster.
The chronically-helpless primitive is an ancient old woman, and franksolich is deaf; our senses aren't as alert and quick; there's a great deal of damage that can happen with something before either of us are aware it's happening.
You might hear a piece of oven glassware start to crack, and act in time.
Unless they're watching, by the time the chronically-helpless primitive or franksolich knows something's wrong, it's already exploded all over inside of the oven, making a glorious mess.
The chronically-helpless primitive is not as young as she was 60 years ago; she's got to pay more attention to things than she did when Mamie was running the White House.
I would think yer sense of smell is far more acute than average. Just seems like you would know sooner than I because of the stench of burn factor. Can't say as I've ever "heard" anything. Usually I smell it first, and since you're a smoker like me, ya know it might be a while before I react, heh, heh!
As I said, "Toots" gives me hell about it. There have been times I put somethin' in the toaster oven to warm, and I walk back out to the shop. Good thing I have her around, I hope for quite some time yet.
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I would think yer sense of smell is far more acute than average. Just seems like you would know sooner than I because of the stench of burn factor. Can't say as I've ever "heard" anything. Usually I smell it first, and since you're a smoker like me, ya know it might be a while before I react, heh, heh!
As I said, "Toots" gives me hell about it. There have been times I put somethin' in the toaster oven to warm, and I walk back out to the shop. Good thing I have her around, I hope for quite some time yet.
If "toots" should precede you when you two first meet again in heaven she will just know you finally burnt the house down . :lmao:
Cell phones have timers , computers have timers, most watches now a days have timers, Take the time and set a timer. :cheersmate:
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My old stove had teflon drip pans.
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If "toots" should precede you when you two first meet again in heaven she will just know you finally burnt the house down . :lmao:
Cell phones have timers , computers have timers, most watches now a days have timers, Take the time and set a timer. :cheersmate:
Sure easy to say. I set the timer then leave and go outside where I don't hear it. Little tough to hear em over the weed eater or table saw/band saw/router/jig saw/drill press/grinder, etc.....
My new cooktop has a timer where it will turn off the heat. It's saved my ass several times.