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

[IncompleteSenten]

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.

Yes, he is going to make sure the outside is clean.
The outside does get cleaned with the rest of the kitchen. It's just the inside that's not seen ovenpride in about 6 months.

DH cleaned our oven when I was visiting my DB during his last round of chemotherapy treatment and now every time I try to use the bottom element it trips the fuse and the whole downstairs electric goes out! I totally understand you wanting it cleaned but I’d probably take the hide upstairs option - with a cup of tea x

Personally I would not clean it. I guarantee the people removing it won't care, and will likely have seen much worse.

It’s going, who cares. Yabvvu to expect someone else to do something unnecessary.

This.

6 months no cleaning? - absolute guaranteed they'll have seen far far worse.

Get a liner for the new one.

I wouldn't clean it, it's being thrown away. The only thing I would recommend though is a wipe across the bottom to ensure no runny grease that could drip getting in out of the house (previous experience!)

YABU

Built in oven(s)? I would make sure that the visible surfaces are clean (eg front of door(s) and handle(s).

There’s no way I’d clean the inside of a broken oven that’s going to be scrapped.

There will be screws inside that fix the oven to the housing - if your DH removes these (and the racks), they (probably) won’t even need to open the door!

@IncompleteSenten

6 months... that's incredibly recent, try over 2 years

Will they know your name (well, apart from Ms Senten, 1 The House, The Road, The Town?
Will they ever visit you again?
Will they even give you, personally a single thought apart from "This is job number 6 of the day"?
Will the actually look at the oven (apart from how to move it)?
Will they have an opinion about the cleanliness of anything they move that day...or just it's size/weight/accessibility?
Is the cleanliness (or otherwise) important in any way to these delivery people? Will they actually give the tiniest fuck about it?
No?
Therefore no need to give a fuck if they judge you/your oven.

If they do judge it (incredibly unlikely)....does that not say more about them being petty/judgemental twats than anything else?
If they do judge it...how long will they spend judging it? 2 seconds? 2 minutes? 2 hours? 2 days? The rest of their lives? Honestly.....if they do it will be the seconds/minutes...no longer. Your oven will not impinge on their lives for more than a few minutes.

Also
Will you know the delivery people's names? Their surname?
Will you ever visit them in their homes/workplaces?
Will you ever sit and have lunch/tea/dinner and a nice chat with you?
No?
Therefore no need to give a fuck if they judge you/your oven

This is so not something to worry about.

But I get it...it would cross my mind...and really, I would have to keep reminding myself about all of the above.

Ha! I’ve cleaned my oven twice in 7 years.

just the inside that's not seen ovenpride in about 6 months.

I am an able bodied woman of nearly sixty three and have never cleaned the inside of an oven. I am all about saving my energy for the things that matter.

When did you last do something for yourself (or have something done for you) for just the sheer joy of it?

I had a new oven just before Christmas and didn't clean it. I also have dodgy lungs and thought there was no point filling my kitchen with cleaning chemicals for a broken oven.

They won't care or judge what the oven is like. Make sure the front is clean so they don't get grease on their overalls but that's about it. You could give them a tip and that's all they will remember about you rather than the dirty oven

I would take the opportunity to haul it out and do a really good clean around the floor, sides and back.. all the places you cant reach when the replacement is in.. As for the old cooker.. no way. Its getting scrapped!!

Yabu. Cleaning unnecessarily is a waste of time. It's bad enough having to fo it when it is necessary!