Life certainly can be entertaining… and educational.
Deb and I were talking a while back about a theory she had been reading about that basically (my paraphrasing here) there are things all around us that we never see…. because we’re not looking for them.
Well, in real world life, I can attest to that theory as being at least partly true.
Granted, I went through a LONG phase of not using my stove top burners much, being the microwave queen, but after reading some stuff about how the microwave changes the chemical make up of things… I decided to drag out the ScanPan pots I have so carefully preserved (by not using) and put those puppies into action.
Now whether or not that thing about the microwave is true or not, as we become more natural in our eating, I think we tend to pay more attention, not only to WHAT we are eating, but to HOW we are preparing it.
But I bet you are waiting to find out what my revelation on the theory that things are around us that we never see, aren’t ya?
Well, here it is… The BIG discovery …
Did you know that there is a catcher under the burner and they rust?
Who knew?
Not me!
….. I made this brilliant discovery last week when I accidently flipped something out of the pan and down into the drip pan and things started smokin!!!!!! (Well, maybe I did know at S O M E point previously in my life….. but it wasn’t stored data).
I didn’t even realize it was called a drip pan until after some exhaustive searching on google and calling it oven burner trays, and other off the wall things that seemed to make sense to me at the time.
Now you may think,
“silly woman. At your age you ought to know these things”,
……but I believe we only have so much space for currently needed data and how my stove top works and all the parts necessary have NOT been on my need to know list…. Like I said – Until now….
After some research on google, as I mentioned before, I found out that I could simply buy replacement drip pans…..
Now the next question was:
Can this woman handle the formidable task?
Of course she can…. and here’s the results:
Oh of course, first the embarrassingly
rusted out front drip pan…. It’s beyond
me how I managed not to notice before.
Ah… the theory in action…
I wasn’t looking!!!!!
Followed by 4 brand new ones…
Hey! If you’re gonna do one… might as well do all –
Here’s the offending burner with brand new drip pan going in… (on the right)
And here’s the completed job below……. Stove burners tested and back in place
Oh, and C L E A N E D, too !!!!!!
Grrrrrrrr.
Mission accomplished !
Til the next time…
You’re never too young or too old to have fun … So ……
Live….. Laugh… Love …..
~Jennifer