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Cooker cleaning AIBU. With vote. Ample opportunity for judging and arguing here.

39 replies

IncompleteSenten · 11/02/2023 10:03

We are getting a new cooker.

It comes with installation and they also remove and dispose of the old one.

My current cooker is minging. The oven hasn't been cleaned for ages. It's got that horrible crusty stuff that makes your eyes sting when you open the oven.

I cannot clean it myself because of serious physical health and disability issues. Details available if you want them but basically my lungs are fucked, my heart is fucked and I'm life limited.

I want my husband to clean it and have it looking like it's never been used. I don't want the people coming to take it to judge us.

My husband thinks I'm nuts. His argument is it's broken. They're coming to take it and they'll most likely just throw it away. Who cares if the oven needs cleaning and the glass door's gone yellow? He is carer for me and our two sons due to various disabilities, the house is very clean and tidy in all the places it matters and it's a task he doesn't need thank you very much.

yanbu - cooker needs cleaning you filthy pair. That's disgusting. I bet your home would make kim and Aggie throw up. Why should the delivery people have to deal with your greasy grimey oven?

yabu - you're being a twat. Who gives a fuck what they think? Three out of 4 people in the home are disabled and need help in different ways. Your husband is f/t carer for you all and has enough on without spending a morning scrubbing a broken cooker so the installation people don't judge you. If it bothers you so much just hide upstairs till their gone, you arsehole.

Third option - not voting because who gives a fuck if you do or you don't. It's a fucking cooker. I wish that was all I had to worry about.

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Original poster
IncompleteSenten · 11/02/2023 10:05

Oops. Bonus spag shit for extra judgement Blush

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Awrite · 11/02/2023 10:06

It would never occur to me to clean the inside of something that is going to be disposed of. Indeed, that you are (most likely) paying to be disposed of.

Tillow4ever · 11/02/2023 10:07

YABU (can't vote as I'm on the app).

It's being thrown out. It won't be the worst they've seen. Why on earth would you waste his time and energy to throw it away? Cleaning ovens is a truly SHIT job.

StormInaDcup99 · 11/02/2023 10:07

Sorry OP...i think it's madness wanting to clean it. What a waste of time!

HappyHolidai · 11/02/2023 10:08

If it's going to be binned/recycled I definitely wouldn't bother cleaning it.

If it's going to be reused I'd give it a clean but not a major-league super-deep clean: just a spray with oven cleaner and wipe off til it stopped being black.

HouseOfRunners · 11/02/2023 10:08

I think I love you 😁
I’d have to clean it but that’s my own issues.
Just leave it and hide if you need to x

LadyGardenersQuestionTime · 11/02/2023 10:08

Good grief woman, get a grip. If you’re that concerned for your reputation get someone in to clean it, your DH has enough to do (but they will think you are batshit crazy too).

WindowsSmindows · 11/02/2023 10:09

You're funny so you're probably finding the humour in it anyway but when I struggle to throw out things that I feel could be used again if cleaned and repaired, I ask my husband to send it to The farmer who's a magical man who cleans and repairs and rehomes everything.... He also takes troublesome pets...

Merryoldgoat · 11/02/2023 10:09

The literally won’t care and if they do, so what?

Whatatimetobealivetoday · 11/02/2023 10:11

You should read that back - I suspect your husband has enough on his plate without adding a task to his list just to save your pride.

(Although I totally get your thinking 😂)

dizzydizzydizzy · 11/02/2023 10:11

YABU

SockQueen · 11/02/2023 10:12

Just let them take it.

For future reference, there are often local people running small businesses doing appliance cleaning, who you can get round every few months to de-ming your oven. Have a look on local FB pages. I hate oven cleaning so it's money well spent for me!

MajesticWhine · 11/02/2023 10:14

I get you but don't worry about it. It's not worth it. I don't think you can make your DH do it just because that fits with your anxieties.

LadyKenya · 11/02/2023 10:14

Yabu to even be wasting your precious time thinking about it. You sound as if you should be spending your time on more important things.

Original poster
IncompleteSenten · 11/02/2023 10:15

You're all right of course.

Urgh. I hate my brain. 😁

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Geepee71 · 11/02/2023 10:17

They possibly won't want to come back to yours for oven cooked dinner, well maybe initially while you have spanking new oven, but seeing as they are delivery people who you will never seen again, shut the oven door and leave it to fester.

I'm a lazy slattern,who would always be on the side of not cleaning somethjng being binned.

Boredof2020 · 11/02/2023 10:18

I cleaned the outside of my old cooker. Obviously not the inside

Ireadthenewstodayohboy · 11/02/2023 10:18

My oven was minging, and we paid a professional oven cleaner to clean it. He confirmed that it was really bad. I don't even have a disability as an excuse!

Lemonyfuckit · 11/02/2023 10:19

I'm sorry OP but I think you're being selfish even suggesting your husband should clean it and having this debate with him. If you want to clean it yourself fine go ahead but you said you can't, so it's not fair for you to think he should when by the sounds of it he does everything else.

Chenford · 11/02/2023 10:19

In answer to your OP - no, I wouldn’t clean it, but I understand your thought process and would be feeling uncomfortable when getting it collected.

Also - and I know you didn’t ask this, but just in case it’s helpful…. is your new one pyrolytic? They are absolutely brilliant and look showroom new when they’ve finished cleaning themselves. Worth looking into for your new one, if you haven’t already.

KeyWorker · 11/02/2023 10:19

I’d not waste time and effort cleaning it but when they come to remove the old one and install the new I’d probably discuss loudly with DH that moving is such a busy time and you’ve only been in a week or something!!

BamBamBilla · 11/02/2023 10:20

Who cares if they do judge you? You're never going to see them again.

AlwaysLatte · 11/02/2023 10:22

I would have to clean it myself but you do have exceptional circumstances and it sounds like you both have a lot to deal with so no one would think badly of you.

Original poster
IncompleteSenten · 11/02/2023 10:22

Chenford · 11/02/2023 10:19

In answer to your OP - no, I wouldn’t clean it, but I understand your thought process and would be feeling uncomfortable when getting it collected.

Also - and I know you didn’t ask this, but just in case it’s helpful…. is your new one pyrolytic? They are absolutely brilliant and look showroom new when they’ve finished cleaning themselves. Worth looking into for your new one, if you haven’t already.

This is the one I've ordered.

www.hotpoint.co.uk/hotpoint-hdt67v9h2cxuk-double-60cm-electric-cooker-inox-f159328/p?idsku=886&gclid=CjwKCAiAlp2fBhBPEiwA2Q10D_0_Ij74lPC_lot4o2E9m3EIKd91skQCz9ZTbt_JM2TeqDQieBxJWRoCXg4QAvD_BwE

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ChungusBoi · 11/02/2023 10:23

For safety reasons I would clean the grease off the exterior surfaces of the oven so that it is less likely to mark clothing if someone is handling it, or slip and fall out of someone’s hands when it’s being removed. But don’t bother about the inside. Can you suggest your husband does that? It seems a fair compromise and a courtesy to the people removing it?

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