New dietary guidelines to live longer:

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marilynfl

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• Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

• Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

• Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

• Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

• Germans drink beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than us.

CONCLUSION: Eat and drink what you like. Apparently, speaking English is what kills you.

(what can I say? My oven has died so I have to post jokes.)

 
Oh... and of course not under warranty anymore, right? Maybe you just

blew a fuse? I didn't know that the 220 outlet had 2 fuses - one for the heat and one for the lights. But look who I'm telling - an engineer for LM.

 
I think it's the thermal cut-out. It's designed too close, so it gets too hot.

And I bought this used from a bachelor guy...racks were still wrapped in plastic so I KNOW he never cleaned the oven.

I'm going to pull it out this weekend and see if I can find it easily.

I miss baking.

 
I have never used my self-clean feature. A temperature that high in my house is "agin nature"

 
aajay, have you ever made Thomas Keller's roasted chicken? The oven ends up like

a war zone...but the chicken ist Wunderbar!

 
I second that! I love, love the chicken. Hate what it does to the oven!

Do you snitch the wing tips before anyone else has a chance? YUMMY

 
My appliance repair guru said the self-clean cycle is waaay too long. He told me to start the self-

clean cycle, let it run for one hour only, then cancel it. He has many years of experience with appliances, and has done fine work for me, so I'm going to try this method this weekend, when we get a cold snap. I have only used the self-clean cycle two other times, and liked the results, but it took too long to finish. Kitchen prep is important...open all cabinet doors and drawers next to the stove, so they don't get cooked, and turn on the exhaust fan.

 
I have a GE Profile. Can I put the stove burner cast iron racks in the self cleaning cycle? I have >

left the oven racks in and they got clean put are now dull not shiney.
More info: it's Duel-Fuel. Gas stove top, electric oven.

 
Luisa, I have the GE Profile stainless cooktop with separate oven. The cast iron grates on my

cooktop have little rubbery bumper thingies on the bottom of the feet where the grate meets the cook top. If yours has those, I wouldn't put them in the cleaning cycle. Mine says dishwasher safe, but so far haven't even done that.

 
No, mine has no rubber feet. I have washed them in the sink once, but usually I just use a sponge >

on them. I have a black enamel surface on the cooktop that has tough grease very near the burner that I just can't get off. Can't use a scrubbie or anything abrasive including cleanser. Any ideas?

 
Check the instruction booklet. Just checked my cooktop booklet and it said to not

put them in a self-cleaning oven. As for the discoloration, the area around the burners is stainless steel and is discolored. DH is the main stove top cleaner (thanks for all the good meals he gets, lol) and he has been hesitant to use any thing on it to remove it. I guess I need to check that book again.

 
I have double old GE profiles. I've cleaned the dickens out of them for 33 years without any

trouble but also agree that the cooking time prescribed is too long. A few years ago, the rolling numbers on the clock got permanently stuck with accumulated oven-exhaust grease, I guess, and I just run the clean manually now, setting alarms in every room in the house.

But only if the oven is extremely filthy (like the rotiss oven after a duck), do I do a full 3 hours. Usually 1.5 hours will do. My ovens are the 24"ers so need cleaning more often. But again, not so long as noted in the manual.

And I do the racks as well. They come out very clean but lose the shine and the easy-glide character. I can do without both for clean racks.

I also clean my BBQ grill racks and GE oven roaster pans at the same time, but not all at once, of course.

 
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