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Thought everybody knew to cover drip pans with aluminum foil, then toss the aluminum foil?? Or is aluminum foil just too unsightly? Hey you make your choices in life I guess. Aluminum foil makes more sense than heavy scrubbing to me.
From this thread, I am more amazed there are people still using their kitchen range enough to get it dirty than I am what kind of range they like/dislike. Or is this just the remains of generation that actually cooked on a range for more than Thanksgiving dinner.
Kinda like those threads proclaiming people will die from indoor pollution caused by gas range. Seriously? The current generations that live on takeout and nuked convenience foods? I have known couple people that heated their apartment with their kitchen range waiting for landlord to repair the furnace. Didnt seem to have killed them.
Imagine the waste (and cost) that would go into lining a tray with foil and then throwing it away with every spill. That's disgusting! Aside from that I'd rather scrub the drip tray then go through the trouble of having to wrap the thing in foil every time I cook. What a a pain in the neck that would be. I have to wash the dishes anyway, what's one more?
I have no idea what you mean about people "still using their ranges". How else would they cook?
As for using a gas oven to heat your house when there's no heat, well, like another poster said, it won't kill you, until it does. There are other safer options such as stay somewhere else until the heat is fixed.
Freezing to death cause of a lazy landlord will kill you too, choose your poison. Also means the manufacturer of stove and builder of the kitchen its installed in needs to be sued cause they didnt properly engineer for safety. Baking bread 24/7 or cooking for hours for Thanksgiving is safe? but heating with stove is not? Care to explain the difference? One assumes people arent storing old newspapers in/on the stove while its in operation.... nor throwing gasoline on it while in operation. Hey you cant absolutely protect for stupid short of banning everything locking everybody into padded cells.
The door is generally closed when cooking... and generally not if you're using it to heat the house.
My point, which you almost certainly already knew, was that it doesn't blow up the house or put folks to sleep all the time. Buit it happens enough that people have to keep saying it's not the smartest thing to do.
Imagine the waste (and cost) that would go into lining a tray with foil and then throwing it away with every spill. That's disgusting! Aside from that I'd rather scrub the drip tray then go through the trouble of having to wrap the thing in foil every time I cook. .
You don't do that. You line it with foil and toss the foil when enough spills build up to be an issue. Maybe every few months. Same as you do in the oven. Look, you've got red hot heating coils an inch away - anything you spill turns to carbon in about ten minutes. It's not going to smell or attract insects. It just looks ugly. If you're really that concerned about what the pans, UNDER the coils of your stove, look like, I'd suggest you need more work to do. For me, a stove is a tool. It needs to be sanitary but it doesn't need to look like an operating room. I'm too busy cooking food on it to worry about a few drops of some carbonized spilled stuff down under the burner.
You don't do that. You line it with foil and toss the foil when enough spills build up to be an issue. Maybe every few months. Same as you do in the oven. Look, you've got red hot heating coils an inch away - anything you spill turns to carbon in about ten minutes. It's not going to smell or attract insects. It just looks ugly. If you're really that concerned about what the pans, UNDER the coils of your stove, look like, I'd suggest you need more work to do. For me, a stove is a tool. It needs to be sanitary but it doesn't need to look like an operating room. I'm too busy cooking food on it to worry about a few drops of some carbonized spilled stuff down under the burner.
Huh, if you say so. I simple wash the drip tray with the rest of the dishes if something spills or boils over. Wash under the pan, on the "floor" of the stove top, too of course. The drip trays do have some hardened on spots. I'm not overly concerned about the appearance of the things, as long as I know they are clean, perhaps that part of your post is directed at someone else. House proud I am not lol.
And I certainly don't put foil in my oven. I suppose you mean to catch spatters? How would that help? It won't protect the sides of the oven. The heating element is on the bottom, if I put foil above it my oven is going to have to work a lot harder to cook whatever is in there.
Huh, if you say so. I simple wash the drip tray with the rest of the dishes if something spills or boils over. Wash under the pan, on the "floor" of the stove top, too of course. The drip trays do have some hardened on spots. I'm not overly concerned about the appearance of the things, as long as I know they are clean, perhaps that part of your post is directed at someone else. House proud I am not lol.
And I certainly don't put foil in my oven. I suppose you mean to catch spatters? How would that help? It won't protect the sides of the oven. The heating element is on the bottom, if I put foil above it my oven is going to have to work a lot harder to cook whatever is in there.
I never used foil in my oven. It's self cleaning but i never use it unless it gets very cold and that is never anymore in FL. Mine never gets that dirty and i use it all the time.
My wife does the cooking--and she can point out Bobby Flay's screw-ups--but I do the cleaning, and I agree with you.
She would still be happier with gas. Induction burners are not as bad as electric coils, but they're only not as bad as electric coils...not better than gas.
Out of curiosity, have you and wife cooked on induction?
Why do you think they are not better than gas?
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