The re-kashering process was supposed to finish up last week. We lit the burners and ran off to Home Depot for a blech and Plexiglas for the countertops. I came back to the restive sound of my smoke detectors going off.
My boyfriend, who has been orchestrating this whole endeavor, is used to kashering kitchens with gas stoves. Apparently electric stoves get much hotter than gas ones. The first time I kashered my kitchen, I only heated the burners until they were red hot. I didn't turn them on high and leave them for two hours.
Yes, I know... never ever leave burners unattended. What can I say? Intelligence has never been my strong suit.
I have an old wine bottle collection sitting on the edge of my stove, against the backsplash. The heat from the burners caused the labels to blacken and melt. Stuff from the vent above the stove melted and dripped onto to the stove top and those red-hot burners.
I am very very lucky that I didn't come home to an open fire. We burnt our fingers turning off the knobs on the stove, but eventually everything cooled down. The unidenfiable something that dripped onto the area between the burners rendered it all unkosher, but at least three burners got done.
Home Depot doesn't cut Plexiglas, so I have to order it from elsewhere, but I am going to enjoy my $7 blech. And to think, I thought everything would be finished in a week. Silly me! Well, hopefully from this point on, the worst thing to worry about will be picking out my new dishes. I am a huge fan of the Colonial Williamsburg "Openwork Creamware" pattern, but as I this is something I actually plan to do and not some silly girlhood fantasy... I think I'll be looking at dishes from Target or Costco instead.
(For those who are interested, there are two new posts up at AnotherBT.)
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A $7 blech?! What exactly did you get at Home Depot? Does it work?
I've found a great attractive way to cover countertops; much better than plexiglass and kasherable too. Buy 1ft sq granite floor tiles and the cheapest 1 ft sq vinyl floor tiles you can find. Place on top of your counter with the vinyl ones underneath to prevent scratching the counter. Granite tiles are thick and are really heavy, so they won't move easily and there's no need to glue. It is very hard to cut granite (diamond saw), so you'll have to live with only about 80% of your counter covered, but I've found that good enough.
Sara-bat-sheva, I just got a thin piece of sheet metal that fits over two of the burners on my stove. It works pretty well, actually.
Anonymous, thanks for the tip! That sounds like a good long-term solution. It's just that I'm hoping to be engaged and planning to move out within a year or so, so I'm trying to keep to the cheapest possible solutions...
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