Check in - Stinkin' Hot Saturday -August 18 - All Welcome!

Good morning.

It is dead around here, linda72.

doordie50, it is a great day for those who don't know whether they are coming or going—today it just doesn't matter!

We are looking at another hot weekend here with poor air quality and Spare the Air alert. Ugh. It has been so nice and Spring-like lately.

linda72, I'd be tempted to try an actual degreasing product on the grill next time. With a gas grill, you just turn it up to high for 5 or 10 minutes after cooking and it kind of takes care of itself, but I vaguely remember trying to clean the grill on a Weber charcoal BBQ some years ago and it was not fun.

I'll be off making French desserts at Sur La Table later this morning, and then will meet a friend at Sizzler for lunch. Probably will not end up being a low-cal day!

KOKO

I found the Ammonia trick on the Internet for cleaning ovens. I tried it with my self-cleaning oven when it was horribly filthy, because I knew that if I ran the self-cleaning cycle in that condition I'd get smoked out of the house. And the Ammonia worked to loosen much of the gunk so that I could wipe it out; and after thoroughly rinsing the oven I ran the self-cleaning cycle to finish the job.

The instructions I found (and there are a number of them; hard to choose one) called for placing the Ammonia in a bowl on an upper rack with a bowl of boiling water on a track underneath, closing the oven, and leaving it for at least 8 hours (overnight works). Then, if I recall, the Ammonia is poured into that bowl of water and the water is used to clean the oven before rinsing with clean warm water.

I used the Ammonia trick for my microwave because the interior is stainless and one can't use regular oven cleaners on it. It helped there a lot, too.

I’m in. Short to do list starting with sleeping in. We’re going to church tonight and I need to pickup a prescription. Otherwise a quiet day. Have a great day everyone.

Late check in for me as I had my colonoscopy this morning and then came home and went back to sleep

All good, no problems or issues..don't have to go back for 10 years - YAY

Just lazying around today on the couch watching TV.

I hope everyone has a great day! - Happy 8/18/18 

LOL zazzles, & lmenglish,

dina, that's really good news!

linda72, what a shame! The ammonia trick always worked for us but, we did add some baking soda too. I think DebDoesWW, had it right - it needs to be out in the sun to heat up

Happy 81818

Pam, I had it tied securely in a black trash bag all day yesterday and this morning. It was plenty hot in that bag yesterday when it hit 97 degrees. Not sure if the ammonia had lost its potency but it didn't seem to do anything. I might try baking soda with it; hope it doesn't blow up! I like the idea of oven cleaner but I was trying to be more "green" with my choice. As lmenglish, said, another Pinterest fail! LOL!!