Ovens

Today's the day ...................... to clean the cooker

Sorry folks - the above is a picture that conveys the pinnacle of my achievements today (and most definitely what I spent most time on) - but if oven-cleaning is not your thing, please feel free to look away now.

We were generating lots of solar energy today, so it seemed like a good idea to use it to operate the 'Self-Clean Pyrolyse' programme to clean the oven.  It's a bit scary because once you set it going, it goes into its own complete lockdown.  It takes a couple of hours to complete, during which time it heats itself up to the sort of temperatures you might experience on re-entry to the earth's atmosphere after a moon landing.  You just have to trust that it knows what it's doing - and all will be well in the end.

But while it's doing that, of course, you have to set to and clean all the other bits of the oven - racks, shelves, glass panels and the like.  So it is a combined effort that eventually produces the above result. 

And it is SO clean.  Look at that gleaming oven.  It's so clean that you could - well - eat your dinner off it ……………………...