Being quite a fanatic about having everything spotlessly clean in the kitchen, especially the cooker, I have a good session stripping it all down at regular intervals so that I can get into all the little out of sight corners.
This was a job that I decided to do this morning because it was raining pretty hard and I didn't really need to go out. I also wanted to bake some bread so I prepared the dough and while it was resting and rising, I started to give the top oven a good wipe out.
Now my arms are pretty long but when the door of the top oven/grill is pulled down and open, I can barely reach the back and when I do, I can't get any power or pressure so that I can clean it as I would like. I get into all sorts of gymnastic poses until I'm almost hanging upside down but all to no avail and this is not good for someone with arthritis and back problems.
There are also some very sharp edges where the shelf runners are and I have to be particularly careful that I don't cut myself (as I have done before).
The other problem with this cooker is the bottom oven! Yes, it has a glass door so that you can see how things are baking but in order to look into the oven I have get right down so that my nose is about nine inches from the floor and as I'm not as nimble as I used to be, I'm afraid of getting stuck down there!
I often think that the people who design these things so badly never have to clean or use them. They may look good, but that's as far as it goes.
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