Kitchen Disgraces

[plumtreeblossom]

When the stove repairman took off the burner panels from the malfunctioning stove, I don't want you to know how much grime, grease, crumbs, burnt residue and cat hair was lurking under the panels and in the cracks. Who knew those panels even came off at all, and that you could clean more than just the tops? But if I don't publicly shame myself, no lesson can be learned, no purification process can begin.

The stove is now clean inside and out, and repaired, too. If, like me, you have a wee bit of slattern in you, this BBC program will kick your ass nine ways from Sunday:

Comments

[heliopsis.livejournal.com]

How do they find people to go on this show? I will never understand reality TV.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

That woman and her husband and their sons should all be too embarassed to appear on TV at all!
By the way, one of the ways I earn a couple of dollars now and then (in addition to cat-sitting) is that I clean people's stoves and refrigerators thoroughly, including taking the stove apart in order to get dust and animal hair, etc. out of the works. I charge $20 for a stove, $15 for a refrigerator (unless the fridge is TOO gross, then it would be $20) or $30 for both ($35 if extra filthy). And I subscribe to the code of client-cleaning lady confidentiality, so that nobody hears from me about the condition of someone else's apartment.
Like you said, who knew that stoves came apart at all? I did not, until my Portuguese landlady back in 1963 showed me how to properly clean a stove. Who would have guessed? Certainly not me!