I buy new drip pans.

But you could try a paste of Dawn and Oxyclean, because Dawn Takes Grease Out of Your Way, and Oxyclean has some grit to it?

Or possibly Oven Cleaner, and put them in the oven overnight?

I need to deal with the drip pan in the back right burner, but that's the burner that's most awkward and it never gets used.

I suppose I should just clean the whole damned stove top.

Teppy, tell your friend to cake the drip pans with baking soda then pour vinegar over them. Let soak a while. Scrub a layer off. Lather, rinse repeat. Unless one likes how Barkeeper's Friend feels on one's skin. Cuz it'll do the job, but it's not particularly friendly to my hands.

ETA: If it is mostly grease, and there is some Simply Green lying about (and one does not despise the scent of it), soak it on there full strength for half an hour, rinse with water to see how much comes off, and go after the rest with baking soda.

Steph, tell your friend that drip pans are cheap enough to replace when they're so dirty they're a fire hazard. There's no sense in wasting time soaking and scrubbing them.

Then tell your friend to wrap the new drip pans in aluminum foil for really easy cleanup if he or she is still not committed to cleaning them on the regular.

Your friend looks an awful lot like you.

Or possibly Oven Cleaner, and put them in the oven overnight?

It's so sweet that you think we have my friend has oven cleaner. (My method of cleaning the oven is as follows: [1] wait until it catches fire; [2] husband orders me out of the kitchen; [3] husband cleans oven; [4] profit!)

Teppy, tell your friend to cake the drip pans with baking soda then pour vinegar over them. Let soak a while. Scrub a layer off. Lather, rinse repeat. Unless one likes how Barkeeper's Friend feels on one's skin. Cuz it'll do the job, but it's not particularly friendly to my hands.

They are currently sitting in a paste of Barkeeper's Friend, but my friend may switch to baking soda and vinegar if she ever, ever finishes editing these goddamn articles.

Then tell your friend to wrap the new drip pans in aluminum foil for really easy cleanup if he or she is still not committed to cleaning them on the regular.

I need to do this. I'm a terribly messy cook.

Maria, That's the biggest way the JEB showed he is a vindictive bastard when he loses.

A smaller example is the issue of the State Library of Florida. He decided to sell it off to "help with the budget" it would have been sold to Nova University (the Bush family has strong ties there) and after the sale Nova would have been able to do anything they wanted, including tossing materials. A lot of families donated books, papers, letters, etc to the library so people were pissed. Librarians and others organized and JEB lost. So he changed the rules (I have no idea if this is still in effect) - he closed the stacks. You could still get a card and check out materials but you had to ask for them, you couldn't browse. He claimed there were too many rare and valuable books and he was doing it to protect them.

Not that cared that much when he was trying to get rid of it, but once he couldn't those books became valuable.

He's an ass and I hate him. And a hypocrite. He was vehement that anyone who was arrested for abusing prescription drugs or using false prescriptions to get drugs should get no mercy and no consideration.

Then his daughter got caught and all he asked for was mercy and privacy. She was a good girl who made a mistake.

You know I had no idea how much hostility I still harbor over Jeb.

Steph, tell your friend that drip pans are cheap enough to replace when they're so dirty they're a fire hazard. There's no sense in wasting time soaking and scrubbing them.

True story: we bought new drip pans, and they were the wrong size. Bed, Bath and Beyond had only 2 size options, so we exchanged them for the other size...which was ALSO the wrong size. How is our stove a freak? We need to just look online with the model of the stove.

Your friend looks an awful lot like you.

Uh...whaaaaaaat? t runs away

I once worked with a woman who lined her entire oven and stovetop with aluminum foil because she could not bear to have one drip on the stove, and her teenage sons lived with her.

Ok, I've been thinking it was just ordinary distractedness, or some wacky way my brain interacts with teeny tiny on-screen or wireless keyboards, but it has gone on for months, and it disturbs me. When I type as I think, then go back and read what I wrote later, I find that I am skipping whole words which are fairly important to the sentences I am typing. And it isn' just when I go back to rearrange and edit something because I changed my mind about how to say something (that happens, sometimes I don't manage to get the whole sentence in line with the changes I want to make. I chalk that up to carelessness.) It is also different from those times when I think one word but type some other word.