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17.11.04

damn, no more excuses.

When we bought our house, the stove had crud on it over the two pilot lights in the middle. One assumes that the sellers / realtors / et c. had scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed it, and it did not come off. When a house is on the market it is to be clean, top to bottom, and everything else was spotless, but this ooky stuff on the stove. Burnt on. Years of buildup. Chemically molded to the surface, even. i have no idea what it was originally. So i'm sure it had been scrubbed, possibly for hours, prior to any of my attempts.

Upon buying the house, i tried to clean it too. Scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing with whatever products i could find that i didn't think would scratch up the enamelled surface of the stove and cause actual damage. Eventually i gave up. my fMIL gave up. my mother gave up. The stove was uncleanable. which might have contributed to my perhaps not cleaning the stove as often as i might have, but hey - it was uncleanable. That shit was not coming off. And my layers started building it up more - all the rest of the stove could be cleaned - but there over the pilot lights - nothing.

Five minutes with the new magic eraser. Five. Two and a half years' worth of our crud, who knows how many years' worth of other people's crud. Five minutes. Total, for both pilot lights. Five. I was in shock.

Now my not-cleaning-the-uncleanable-stove excuse is gone, though, and i'm not completely sure how cool i am with that.

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