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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 121464" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>You're supposed to <em>clean</em> a toaster? I figure the heat when you're using it at least sanitizes the gunk that's in it. Once in a while I unplug it and shake it over the garbage can. I have a self-cleaning oven but I'm afraid to use it! <em>800 DEGREES</em>??? I don't think so. Not in MY kitchen!</p><p> </p><p>Growing up, I never realized what an <em>awful</em> cook my mother was until I started cooking myself! In her defense, she had learned from my grandmother and she was pretty awful too. And mom learned to cook during the Depression, so she naturally skimped and substituted. Everything she made was plain, unseasoned, bland and burnt! She never quite learned to work the gas stove and she burned everything! Spaghetti was a can of plain tomato paste stirred into the cooked spaghetti. We had plain boiled potatoes with butter on them EVERY night for dinner. She made "salad dressing" by mixing plain white sugar with vinegar and pouring it over lettuce, but the sugar never quite dissolved - nasty. She made cake frosting with about a tablespoon of butter mixed with powdered sugar and milk - it hardened up just like concrete. Occasionally we'd have "steak" - round steak that she <em>fried</em> until it was hard like shoe leather - and burnt! But we didn't know any better! We <em>never</em> went to restaurants either, so until we grew up, we never knew any different. But we LOVED the school lunches and scarfed them up like there was no tomorrow!</p><p> </p><p>This is so funny thinking about it now, but when we were little kids there was an elderly retired Italian couple who lived in a little house behind us. They were very nice but we never even knew their names and they rarely ever went out. But once or twice a week, that old lady would start cooking things that smelled so good it would make you just want to cry! She would start cooking early in the day and the smell wafted through our whole end of the block, turning on the whole neighborhood! My brother and I would stand there at the edge of their yard looking down at their house trying to imagine what she could possibly be cooking that smelled so wonderful. We even discussed the possibility of knocking on their door and inviting ourselves to dinner, but we never got that brave! Or rude. But we did <em>seriously</em> consider it ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 121464, member: 1883"] You're supposed to [I]clean[/I] a toaster? I figure the heat when you're using it at least sanitizes the gunk that's in it. Once in a while I unplug it and shake it over the garbage can. I have a self-cleaning oven but I'm afraid to use it! [I]800 DEGREES[/I]??? I don't think so. Not in MY kitchen! Growing up, I never realized what an [I]awful[/I] cook my mother was until I started cooking myself! In her defense, she had learned from my grandmother and she was pretty awful too. And mom learned to cook during the Depression, so she naturally skimped and substituted. Everything she made was plain, unseasoned, bland and burnt! She never quite learned to work the gas stove and she burned everything! Spaghetti was a can of plain tomato paste stirred into the cooked spaghetti. We had plain boiled potatoes with butter on them EVERY night for dinner. She made "salad dressing" by mixing plain white sugar with vinegar and pouring it over lettuce, but the sugar never quite dissolved - nasty. She made cake frosting with about a tablespoon of butter mixed with powdered sugar and milk - it hardened up just like concrete. Occasionally we'd have "steak" - round steak that she [I]fried[/I] until it was hard like shoe leather - and burnt! But we didn't know any better! We [I]never[/I] went to restaurants either, so until we grew up, we never knew any different. But we LOVED the school lunches and scarfed them up like there was no tomorrow! This is so funny thinking about it now, but when we were little kids there was an elderly retired Italian couple who lived in a little house behind us. They were very nice but we never even knew their names and they rarely ever went out. But once or twice a week, that old lady would start cooking things that smelled so good it would make you just want to cry! She would start cooking early in the day and the smell wafted through our whole end of the block, turning on the whole neighborhood! My brother and I would stand there at the edge of their yard looking down at their house trying to imagine what she could possibly be cooking that smelled so wonderful. We even discussed the possibility of knocking on their door and inviting ourselves to dinner, but we never got that brave! Or rude. But we did [I]seriously[/I] consider it ... [/QUOTE]
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