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.
haha. I thought when you said it's not gas with flames... you meant it's gas without flames!
Interrupting the stove cleaning talk....
I'm meeting another dog (a whippet) tomorrow, and if she gets along with Hugo she'll come stay with us this Saturday through Dec 2, then Junior the bull terrier comes to stay on Dec 3. I'm excited, but a little overwhelmed. I hope it all goes well!
Aww! I've never "met" a whippet IRL but they are so cute. And I have always wanted a bull terrier. Hoping everything works out with your pups, pg!
haha. I thought when you said it's not gas with flames... you meant it's gas without flames!
No no. AC has an electric stove. At least if it's like that one in the pic.
I think that if you're of the school that cleans the stovetop right after cooking, it's just the part around the burners, not the burners themselves. Otherwise you'd have to wait for the burners to cool down to do that part. No one is handling fire here. Maybe. At least I'm not.
But with gas stoves, there's the spot above the pilot light that's pretty much too hot to clean, unless you extinguish the pilot lights. It's a pain, and so I usually just wipe over it quickly. Fortunately that area is never too dirty, 'cause I hate turning on/off pilots (every time I lower the stove top back down, at least one extinguishes again!).
Further slanty:
yesterday, I finally got some more flour (I was out of flour! Can you believe it?) :)
Today, I'm making cake and... the flour's hard. Like there was moisture near it. Except I didn't have moisture near it... I could take it back to Target, except I don't have the car today, threw out the receipt already, and I WANT CAKE DAMNIT
And, FYI, it's difficult to google this issue. "hard flour" yields stuff about wheat varieties, "clumped flour" yields thickener troubleshooting, "wet flour" gives stuff about getting flour off your car (?), "damp flour" - mites, "humid flour" - cooking in humid temps, "moist flour" - delicious cakes. UGH
... do you guys think i can sift this problem away? :(
wait, I have a gas hob and have had one previously, but have no idea what you're on about with the whole pilot light business.....what/where is it?
Is there a part of my hob I have been neglecting to clean all this time ???
Aww! I've never "met" a whippet IRL but they are so cute. And I have always wanted a bull terrier. Hoping everything works out with your pups, pg!
I've met a few whippets at dog parks. Hugo always seems to like them but they don't always like him (apparently it's common for whippets to prefer people over other dogs...and Hugo is a bit of an extreme dog). They've told me the whippet I might be watching is very well socialized and gets along well with other dogs, so hopefully Hugo won't freak her out.
... do you guys think i can sift this problem away? :(
That's what I would try, but if it's really hard/crunchy you might not be able to do anything with it. But if it's that hard it's probably because the whole bag got wet, not just moisture near it....
Shell, some gas stoves/ovens have a pilot light, some have a little thing to make a spark, some you have to light with matches. I light my stove with matches and I have a spark button in the oven.
Oh yeah. All the gas stoves I've used have a pilot light. Some have two - one on the left and right, between two burners. Some have one, in the center. Because it's constantly lit, the stove top right over it's very hot, so any liquid that hit it pretty much immediately evaporates --> can get/stay dirty easily, hard to clean unless you turn it off.
I sifted it. A lot of it's hard, some not, but it was mostly sift-able... it didn't look discolored/spotty, so let's hope I didn't poison myself with some cool fungal toxin.
CAKE HERE I COME
pg, hope it all works out with meeting the new doggie. I think this sounds like such a cool/fun job, even if you don't end up earning very much! : )
fb, I very rarely run out of flour and it always freaks me out when I do. I do buy it in 5kg bags though... Hope your cake is not delicious poison cake!
PILOT LIGHTS SOUND SCARY! I have definitely never come across a gas stove with an ETERNALLY LIT FLAME so I am pretty sure they don't exist like that here. No way would I ever feel safe to leave the house with a stovetop that was ALWAYS ON FIRE!!!!
fb, I very rarely run out of flour and it always freaks me out when I do. I do buy it in 5kg bags though... Hope your cake is not delicious poison cake!
pg, hope it all works out with meeting the new doggie. I think this sounds like such a cool/fun job, even if you don't end up earning very much! : )
Yeah, I think it will be a lot of fun...I'm just nervous because I've never done it before and now I'm getting 2 dogs back to back. Well, we've looked after my SIL's dog a few times, but this is the first time I've looked after dogs through this company. I'm worried that something will go wrong and they'll never want me to watch a dog again. :o
pg, hope it all works out with meeting the new doggie. I think this sounds like such a cool/fun job, even if you don't end up earning very much! : )
fb, I very rarely run out of flour and it always freaks me out when I do. I do buy it in 5kg bags though... Hope your cake is not delicious poison cake!
PILOT LIGHTS SOUND SCARY! I have definitely never come across a gas stove with an ETERNALLY LIT FLAME so I am pretty sure they don't exist like that here. No way would I ever feel safe to leave the house with a stovetop that was ALWAYS ON FIRE!!!!
but... i'd think any gas oven, even if the stove top required matches, would have a pilot light on for the oven part, right? or do you also have to used a match or whatever for the oven, too?
NO, GAS OVENS ARE TERRIFYING! And pretty much non-existent here. I've never seen one and never heard of anyone having one.
But are you saying there is an ETERNALLY LIT FLAME in your oven as well? HOW DO ALL YOUR HOUSES NOT BURN DOWN???
My gas oven does not have a pilot light. I have to push the knob in to start the gas going, then press a button to make a spark, and hold the knob in for 10 seconds or so otherwise the gas turns off again. This is the 3rd oven I've had that's like that (all 3 have been in Australia...maybe it's an Aussie thing). I like not having a pilot light because then my stove/oven aren't using gas constantly (even though it's a small amount). Except I have an instant-gas water heater with a pilot light.
NO, GAS OVENS ARE TERRIFYING! And pretty much non-existent here. I've never seen one and never heard of anyone having one.
But are you saying there is an ETERNALLY LIT FLAME in your oven as well? HOW DO ALL YOUR HOUSES NOT BURN DOWN???
It's a tiny flame, like that of a lil candle. And it's within the confines of the oven. CALM DOWN.
but but but.. I would never leave my house with a lil candle burning!
I AM SCARED FOR YOU ALL!!!
I have to agree with oww here......how can you leave your house with your gas hob still burning!?!? Do you not all burn to death every night
altough thinking about it now I have gas heated water so I probably leave my water on fire all the time too.
It's a tiny, tiny flame with a cutoff. I lived with one until I left my mom's house. No problems and it doesn't get all that hot if it's properly installed.
You can't buy gas ovens in Europe anymore since about 1955 when they realised that sticking your head in a gas oven was the suicide method of choice. Because you just go to sleep, it doesn't hurt or anything. Oh you can get them for restaurants etc but they're huge and mongo expensive.
OWW you have obviously never heard of the "range" (Aga or Rayburn) that is always "on". And the size of a small car parked in your kitchen.
Here in Spain you have to light a gas stove burner with a sparker or match. I also have a flow-through gas water heater that has its own sparker thing installed.
Electric water heaters scare me because here they are often hung (and plugged in) in the bathroom. Water and electricity, no thank you. I know I'm being stupid but that's just how it is. I grew up with gas everything.
I used to wipe down the stove every day or so, but since DH took over most of the cleaning in my busy times the surfaces are a nightmare.THIS stove I mean to keep clean, though, because the old one was badly designed and a pain to clean. This one I wanna keep nice and not all gross.
OWW and Shell, I have an electric stove/oven at home but our RV has a gas stove/oven. The pilot for the oven is a little tiny flame that burns 1/2" or 1 cm high. It is centered in the bottom of the oven with all open space or metal around it. Nothing is getting to that flame to catch fire except gas when you want to bake something. There is a metal plate between the gas elements and the cooking area. To me, it is less scary to have the pilot lit than actually bake in the oven with the larger gas burner.
I grew up with electric coil elements and all of their power-variability. I never had a problem cleaning around/under them until my current flat, whose randomly-old-fashioned stove-top has little catch-pans under the four elements... which are somehow ATTACHED to the bottom of the entire stove-top. So you go to lift it up and scrape/clean underneath, and the whole thing lifts up and laughs at you. How freegin' pointless. ::) So, when I have little accidents and spills, I just have to let them burn away under regular element use, which can make my kitchen stinky.
My jaw bone is sticking into my cheek again and it hurts a lot. Its making the rest of my jaw swell up and stuff. Ouch :(
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