On 7/21/2016 9:37 AM, The Greatest! wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> On 7/19/2016 6:40 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>> On Monday, July 18, 2016 at 11:23:29 PM UTC-4, Jeßus wrote:
>>
>>>> It's a stupid feature. A feature which technology hasn't mastered, yet
>>>> they still successfully sell it to the public because they're so
>>>> hopelessly self-centred and monumentally lazy. Just use some elbow
>>>> grease and clean the goddamned oven by hand.
>>>

>> PLUS ONE. I've never had a self cleaning feature break, and I'm
>> never buying an oven without it, I'm not going back to that
>> disgusting thankless chore.
>>
>> Also, I got a nice burn when I accidentally touched oven cleaner
>> with my forearm and didn't notice. That is not the oven cleaner's
>> fault, but you can keep that caustic stuff. I want nothing to
>> do with it.
>
>
> Nancy, I was watching an old "To Tell The Truth" episode from early 1962* on some sub-channel, these are fun to watch because the have the original ads. There was one for Easy - Off, and back then it was apparently not a spray, but you *brushed* it on! Came in a glass jar with a small brush, did not look much larger than a pastry brush. The housewife - in pearls and heels, natch! - smilingly cleaned her oven, just in time for her Mad Men hubby's arrival, the ad ended with her serving them a big steak dinner...
>
> I mean, *brush - on*, geez...!!!

I remember using that stuff. It is why we eventually bought a self
cleaning oven.

Along with self cleaning ovens, some of us self centered lazy people
have air conditioning, electric mixers and other useless appliances.