"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
> 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.

I never used this but I remember seeing ads for some sort of pad with a
plastic handle on it. It was filled with cleaner and you somehow pierced it
to let the stuff out. I do know people who tried them and said they were
pretty worthless in terms of cleaning.

I used to get laughed at by coworkers because I insisted on AC in my car.
They kept telling me that I didn't need it. I beg to differ. I think I use
that more than I do heat. Even in the winter, when the sun comes through the
car windows, it can make the car uncomfortably warm inside. And I don't like
driving around with my windows down.

Thankfully, these days it's pretty hard to even buy a new car with no AC. At
least not a Ford. I was told it is standard now.