Reasons to make the slanty face
Posted by Allychristine on Oct 02, 2009 · Member since Dec 2007 · 15438 posts
:\ You know, in between the smile and frown. I'm more often :\ ing.
P is gone to class, but will be back in a little over an hour. Also, he's going to a Street Fighter club thing tonight, that I would like to go with him, but I don't know that I'll be feeling up to it. The fact that he's going is a reason to smile, though.
ftr, i hate cleaning the stovetop.
Ok, this was something I was meaning to ask. Do you not clean the stovetop after cooking? Just wiping everything down? I guess I don't know what "cleaning the stovetop" means otherwise..unless you mean cleaning under the burners in the drip pan things...which is indeed highly annoying. ???
I have flat ceramic elements so I wipe it down all the time, and occasionally 'clean' it with baking soda and a bit more scrubbing if there is anything that has spilled and gotten a little baked on or whatever.
drip pans sound disgusting.... : /
Ah. Well, I feel like I should wipe down the stovetop every time after I cook (or at least if there's some evidence of splatter). ... but I don't. I doubt I represent the consensus on cleaning things, tho.
Instead I just kind of, um, until it gets bad or every month or whatever... clean the top with stain remover/etc. For under the burner/drip pans things, I HATE that, because it's the hassle of taking things off, and then the burner things can never really be cleaned well, and anything on the actual stove is probably pretty well burnt/dried on there, and I have to either extinguish the pilot or work around it.
I don't have drip pans, though (they wouldn't fit the stove anyway); I put foil down (like a square with a hole punched out for the actual burner), so that way I can get off most of the stuff by just tossing the foil. (it generally works pretty well at protecting the stove, except when something has boiled over a lot).
I'm the same, fb. I wait until the stovetop looks disgusting, then I clean it, and every time I think about how much easier it would be if I just wiped it down after cooking. Sometimes I actually do for a few days, but it never sticks.
I see, I see.
but it never sticks.
It doesn't stick because you've been wiping it off! So..it's clean...and not sticking to the stove... har..
I'm the same, fb. I wait until the stovetop looks disgusting, then I clean it, and every time I think about how much easier it would be if I just wiped it down after cooking. Sometimes I actually do for a few days, but it never sticks.
YAY!
and AC... terrible joke. You just wasted 0.5 seconds of my life. UGH
I wipe the stovetop down every few days or so. I like to get fancy with the skillet-food-flipping and liquids usually fly around a bit during that. My mom obsessively wipes down the counters and I just feel like it's kind of an eyesore to have shiny counters and a nasty stove. As for the under drip pan thing.. I can't even remember the last time I cleaned that.
eta: I just checked and my stove doesn't have any under drip pan thing because it's sealed around the tops of the burners. WHEW. I remember the one in my old apartment though, and it was so disgusting (caked with grease, and ROACHES!!!!) the first time I opened it while living there that my mom made them give us a new stove. Aw yeah.
I always want to wipe the hob down after cooking, but never get round to it because it's too hot!
How do you guys do it immediately after cooking? Do you have asbestos fingers?
I think they all have gas hobs.
weirdos.
: )
This is beginning to confuse me more and more.
but Ih ave a gas hob and it's hot after cooking
Asbestos fingers sounds like it should be the name of some trendy band's hit song, like Vampire Weekend.
eta: is hob code for stove?
but Ih ave a gas hob and it's hot after cooking
Are you trying to like scrub the actual burner? What the heck. Cleaning around the stove top..it's not that hot?! I do it WHILE I'm cooking, because I'm a freak. I even wipe under pots and pans while they are on the burner! My stove is something like this, though not this new and fancy:
http://images04.olx.com/ui/10/92/64/1294444487_154718864_2--FREE-GROCERIES-Next-to-NEW-GE-StoveOvenBroiler-White-Electric-Jacksonville.jpg
Under the burners are little pan things like: http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/public/C7WEzBS_R5mwWsA5BYmrqTi66EWCxLw4ef29u0bId1-kebbC6WTCWpUX_UoFdUhUqhaHKhJgcMwfomEV3F29w05nbTkGkDXRPXgNbDMFQ5bdkphHpY2vonCdY5EgP4RzbRNBsXjfPIhrBCawww
http://images04.olx.com/ui/10/92/64/1294444487_154718864_2--FREE-GROCERIES-Next-to-NEW-GE-StoveOvenBroiler-White-Electric-Jacksonville.jpg
so you don't have gas?
on my parents' gas hob, the metal frame thingies are usually pretty hot just after turning off the gas, but they're not dirty, and I just go all ninja and wipe underneath them without touching them.
I wipe mine straight after turning off the elements sometimes, and the cloth usually steams and hisses but it hasn't caught on fire yet, so I figure it's ok..
yeah, I get that....but isn't it still hot around the burners?
Maybe I'm just a wuss.
And yes, hob = stove top.
eta: ok you're braver than me, oww.
I would just wipe the bit where there might be splashes/messes, so not too close to the bit the flames actually come from and not the metal frame bits
Oh, no..mine is not gas with flames. Just the coils, but I wipe everything except on top of the coils!
wait, so where is the gas if there are no flames? I AM CONFUSED!
It's.....inside the coils?
wait, so where is the gas if there are no flames? I AM CONFUSED!
It's not gas!!!!
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