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.

I'm pretty sure I have a good idea, askye. It's the conservative right's MO.

Tep, you, er your *friend*, should still wrap the newly cleaned pans in foil. Easiest clean up ever, even if it does look a little less put together. It works like a charm.

Steph, your "friend" wouldn't need to deal with her drip pans if I destroy the world. Because I am prepared to do that today.

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.

If you have one of those modern, new fangled, electric ovens where the heating element is inside the walls of the oven rather than hanging out where they can be seen (and dripped on), do NOT line your oven with foil. It will mess up the oven. That happened at one of the houses I work at.

Steph, your "friend" wouldn't need to deal with her drip pans if I destroy the world. Because I am prepared to do that today.

That *would* eliminate the need to clean the drip pans.

I approve.

I'm usually buy new ones, but in the past I've soaked them and then used something to scrub them clean. I think once they were still kind of nasty and I was doing the Fly Lady sink cleaning thing (fill it with water and bleach and let sit) so I threw the drip pans in there too. Probably defeated some ofthe purpose of cleaning the sink but that seemed to work.

You shouldn't use foil INSIDE the oven, it messes with the way the heat is conducted.

Boss just called an un scheduled meeting. That's never good, right?

Boss just called an un scheduled meeting. That's never good, right?

Usually not. Although there is this new management school of thought that says it's good for bosses to randomly give all their employees fudge....

There's a drip pan in ovens? Huh.