I had to clean the stove top the other day.

Did you have to?

Well, okay, so the oven's not worked for a little bit, and we mostly use the toaster oven slash air fryer in the summer because it makes the house less hot than the real oven does.

Understandable.

So, like, the oven's been broken for a bit, and the guy was coming to look at the oven to see what was wrong with it.

And the top, like, I like to think at the oven to see what was wrong with it. And the top,

I like to think that a thin layer of grease on the top of the stove top helps to protect the, the, the enamel of the stove top. It's a lubricant. It's a sealant, it's a sealant,

whatever you want to call it. Yeah. It's keeping the bad stuff out and the good stuff in, right? It's like wax for your car.

Yes. Yes, you know, I like,

I like to let the, let life find a way.

So anyway, I cleaned it off.

And you know, that stuff that gets like the hard baked on kind of like, they're like dark spots usually.

It's like, it's like if you spill something with some fat in it, it'll get cooked on there

if the burner's hot.

And then it's really hard to get off.

So I went to the internet, as one does, to find out how to remove these, hopefully

with chemistry or something that wouldn't involve me scrubbing for three hours.

And somebody on the internet said, hey, if you have a lay crusette, an enameled Dutch oven, like one of those Dutch ovens, and you bought their fancy unnecessary for the Lake Cruset Dutch oven, but totally necessary for other enameled cookware, cleaner, which is, I think, just something that's more basic than like baking soda, but less basic than, like, you know, lithium hydroxide or something.

It takes that stuff right off.

Okay.

So I degreased to the top and I, I wedded the stuff on the sponge and I put it on there and I rubbed it on.

Let's sit for a few minutes.

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