Thothmuffin
Don't get any crumbs on the scale of judgement.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Meet my vinegar and despair, Oven!
So, my new apartment is really nice, but the appliances in it have been giving me some trouble. The dishwasher doesn't get dishes clean (a major problem), my oven reeks of poisonous oven-cleaner residue whenever I turn it on, and I'm pretty sure my dryer is missing the removeable part of its lint-trap, but it might just be poor design, so I'm afraid to bring it up.
The dishwasher is obviously something I'm going to have to take up with my landlords, but I figured the oven cleaner miasma could be fixed with a simple rinse. And I wanted brownies!
However, my foe was wilier than I surmised. Apparently oven cleaner is impervious to water. I thought of using vinegar, then wondered if that would make matters worse, so of course I asked the Internet. eHow told me that a watered-down vinegar solution would fix my problem in a trice. Not bothering to convert measurements to the scale I needed, I just threw some vinegar and water in a spray bottle and had at it! (Organic chemistry had a lasting and possibly detrimental effect on my willingness to accurately measure.)
I'm trying the heat-test of my oven right now, and despite my devil-may-care attitude towards proper concentrations, it seems to be working. At least, the oven cleaner smell is greatly dimished, and there is only a slight scent of warm vinegar, which hopefully will dissipate.
The dishwasher is obviously something I'm going to have to take up with my landlords, but I figured the oven cleaner miasma could be fixed with a simple rinse. And I wanted brownies!
However, my foe was wilier than I surmised. Apparently oven cleaner is impervious to water. I thought of using vinegar, then wondered if that would make matters worse, so of course I asked the Internet. eHow told me that a watered-down vinegar solution would fix my problem in a trice. Not bothering to convert measurements to the scale I needed, I just threw some vinegar and water in a spray bottle and had at it! (Organic chemistry had a lasting and possibly detrimental effect on my willingness to accurately measure.)
I'm trying the heat-test of my oven right now, and despite my devil-may-care attitude towards proper concentrations, it seems to be working. At least, the oven cleaner smell is greatly dimished, and there is only a slight scent of warm vinegar, which hopefully will dissipate.
