Domestic Help

I have a flat top range from the 1970s. OK, maybe not the 70s, but whenever they started making them, I have that first one. This is the same stove that is mentioned in this post. I have baked all of the wax out of the bottom of the oven and we are back on track now! Praise the Lord for answered prayer. It's the simple things that bring a mother joy.

Due to the fact that we have been spending enormous amounts of time with said oven and stove top while trying to remove the wax, Riky has noticed that there are rings around where the burners are that don't come off, even with the assistance of oven cleaner. I have steeled myself to the fact that the range is somewhere around my age, and has every right to have a little discoloration. So, I've become OK with it.

Last night Riky went to WalMart for some Christmas shopping and also to pick up a few things for the house. Toilet Bowl Cleaner was one of the things on the list. After helping me do some housework yesterday and using toilet bowl cleaner on the floor around the toilet. (See this post)Riky was sure that toilet bowl cleaner would solve my ring "problem" on my stove top.

So, today Michael accidentally placed a bagged head of lettuce on a warm burner and melted plastic to my stove top. I seized this as the opportune time for me to try out Riky's hypothesis.

Out comes the TBCleaner and a scraper.

I also called Sherri to chat, since the children and husband had vacated the kitchen.

Scrape-scrape-scrape, chat-chat-chat

scrape-scrape, chat-chat

scrape- Sherri says "what are you doing?"

I explain the situation to her and she says--

now, here I will side step for a second:

Does anyone else have friends who have

the solution to any and all common (and not so common)

household problems? Well, Sherri is my go-to girl when it

comes to how to get stains out...cleaning things...what spice to substitute for something that I have run out of...a quick recipe for what I have in my cabinets. She knows what's what when it comes to tons of domestic things. I am constantly calling her for advice on all things domestic.

So she says: "Do you have any Bologna?" Which, of course, is pronounced Ba-lo-nee

scrape-- "What?"

Sherri "Do you have any Bologna?"

I stop scraping and turn to take mental inventory of my fridge -Why yes, I do.
"What good will that do?"

Sherri "It's non abrasive"

well, yes, it would be, I guess "What is it again?"Sherri's pretty health conscience, what is she doing with bologna in her house.

Sherri "either Balogna or Barkeepers Friend would work"

"Ohhhhhh, that stuff that you use on your stove top?"

Sherri "yes, of course."

"What is it called again?"

Sherri " Bon-A- Mee~~Bon-Ami"

"I thought you said Ba-lo-nee... And not only that, I was going to get it out and start scrubbing."