On Oct 15, 3:42*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:32:42 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
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> >On Oct 14, 10:18*pm, Cheryl > wrote:
> >> I am getting my new range tomorrow and was cleaning out the storage
> >> drawer and removing all the stuff I keep on top of the
> >> backboard/splashboard shelf - which my new range will not have because
> >> it's curved - and pulled it out a bit to see if I could easily move it..
> >> * Well it looks like I need an electrician. *The current power looks
> >> hardwired. *There is a thick wire coming out of the wall (no receptacle)
> >> and the new one comes with some new code power cord that's been in
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> >whaaaat? *No flat backboard? *I'd die without mine. *Homebase for
> >salt, pepper, cinnamon, ( all in shakers), seaweed flakes, a 3 minute
> >egg timer....and a minute minder. *I bet you'll miss that feature.
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> My stove has a narrow flat area all along the top of the back
> splash... but I never put anything there, it would just collect
> schmutz. *And that's certainly not the place to store spices. *They
> probably now design stoves with the curved backsplash for safety
> reasons, that's about the least safe place in the kitchen to store
> anything flammable *In olden times the shelf above the kitchen stove
> was in lieu of a warming drawer... but now we have central heating.

Yeah - it gets schmutzig, but I try to give it and the control knobs
a good scrub every blue moon. I have been in houses where the
stovetop is just a big, flat grease smear, and they wonder where the
shine went. The householder gives it a swipe with a dishrag, but
never soap etc. Ugh. What's worse - a dirty house or an untidy one?
They usually go hand in hand, but not necessarily.