"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>> 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.
>
> LOL, older and wiser now for sure. I would never buy (if they even make
> them anymore) a refrigerator that had to be defrosted, a wringer type
> washing machine, or a non-steam iron either.

My two little fridges need defrosting. Actually, the smaller of the two
isn't bad at all. Rather than getting frost, it will occasionally get a
chunk of ice that forms in a little tray that came with it. The tray sits
under the tiny freezer section. I just take it to the sink to dump it or
grab a bucket and dump the ice in there.

The slightly larger one will get a frost buildup at the back but it's not a
big deal either because I hardly ever put food in it. The freezer
compartment is used for blue ice only and the fridge part for drinks. So I
can shut it off and leave the doors open for a few hours. No big deal.

My little upright freezer supposedly needs a manual defrost as well but I've
not noticed any frost in it yet.

I did do a great deal of hand wash when I lived above the dance studio. No
wringer washer. I use my big bathtub and a plunger that I purchased
specifically for that purpose. I did still go to the pay laundry a couple of
times a month because certain things like towels and socks came out better
when dried in a dryer.

I have decided that I really prefer hand washing dishes though. Might be
different if I had something like a countertop dishwasher. But it is just
too difficult for me to do all the stooping and bending needed to load and
unload the one that I have. Plus we all eat at different times now. Was
different when we all ate dinner at the same time but that rarely happens
now. So aside from when I initially cook/prepare something, few things get
dirty at one time.