With my new stove. Seriously. I would have it’s babies. I went from my Habitat for Humanity $40 stove to the most gorgeous piece of machinery I have ever owned. Anyhow, I did take some pictures of course to show the before and after:
The Before:
Decent stove when it was new I’m sure. We bought it at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore for $40 when we bought our house. Everything worked on it however we determined that it had probably been on fire at one point because there was burnt insulation falling out of the back of it. Because of that I never used the self-clean feature. I was too scared of it lighting on fire. You had to be a magician to use the oven on this stove, some days 350 was like 450 and other days it was like 250. It just depended on how it felt I guess…but it was always a crap shoot as to what result you would get. It also had coil burners and knobs which I hate, hate, hate cleaning!!! Not at all sad to walk past this in my garage right now…
This is my new beauty:
I bought a LG Self Cleaning, Smoothtop Convection Range. It has lots of the bells and the whistles! I could have got the additional oven drawer for another $200 but I knew I would not personally use it. I use my bottom drawer for storage…We spent a bit of money on it but so worth every cent! I cook all our meals as well as bake mostly from scratch. This range cooks and bakes like a dream. Randy made cookies the first night we had it and they are so soft and tender and flaky, cooked perfectly! I have coveted a convection oven for awhile and wasn’t going to get it but I got a really nice bonus from my work and thought I would treat myself. I love the smooth top, I love that there are no knobs (I so hated cleaning around them!) and I love having so much control over my temperatures. It is taking some getting used to as I find out what each temperature setting is on the smooth top but so far no problems! I love that it is stainless and black; it matches my other appliances so well. We have a stainless fridge, black dishwasher, stainless toaster, black and stainless Kitchenaid Mixer, coffee pot, crock pot and bread machine. It all works so well! Of course it is making me want to re-do my kitchen…I really hate the narrow 70’s cabinets and the pink countertops…but that will come in time. Anyhow, I promise to stop ranting about my stove one of these days, for now I’m just going to love it!!!
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