yesterday:
Obviously the person who designed
my oven door did not have housekeeping
in mind. My oven door has the vents
immediately behind the door handle.
The space is too narrow to clean
with a toothbrush, or any other
type of brush. I've tried
everything.
I wipe the stove top and oven
face using a glass cleaning product
after each use, even if I just heat
water for instant coffee
The buildup over time drives me nuts.
It takes hours and patience to get
these tiny vents (on a white door) to
look clean.
I will keep this in mind when I purchase
my next appliances, but that will be a
while since the ones I have are in good
condition except for thecrapon
the vents that I cannot clean daily.
-- D
Thank you so much for the email. I had
not realized that oven door vents are so
important until recently.
Apparently an oven door needs vents or
these vents would not be there. However,
these vents can be a problem.
One problem that has come up is the
possibility of water getting into these
vents. The water then streaks its way
down the interior surface of the oven
door class. At this point, the oven
door glass becomes impossible to clean
because there is no way to reach between
the layers of glass.
I've never heard of oven door vents being
behind the door handle. I can see where
this would cause cleaning problems.
I can also see why an oven designer might
put the vents there. It makes it harder
for people to spray cleaning solution into
the vents. If no cleaning solution reaches
the vents, no cleaning solution can get
stuck between the layers of oven door
glass.
However, you seem to have discovered a
distinct disadvantage and that is that
the vents are hard to clean around.
Maybe someone will invent the removable
oven door handle. If this were done, the
designer of the oven could still protect
his precious vents from water getting into
them. At the same time, cleaning up around
the vents would be possible.
I'm not sure what the answer is. It sounds
like a typical design problem. Design problems
are often centered around trading one problem
for another.
Life is like that. You trade one thing for
another. As we get older, life becomes a
series of trade-offs. Some of the trade-offs
are not so bad.
Ed Abbott
