Oct 03 2014
For the last 3 weeks I haven’t been able to cook as usual; with the pain in my hip and leg. I am getting a little antsy with not much to do. I went to the Dr. this am and she ordered a MIR for me and gave me some stronger pain medicine. I am going for the MRI next Thursday. I hope they can find the problem and get me repaired!
A while back someone posted about moving the kitchen stove out to clean behind it. I have tried to do mine every year along with the refrigerator. The one side of my stove fits against the kitchen cupboards. The side of the stove and the cupboard usually had some caked on food I had spilled over the crack. After the post I thought I should be able to find a strip to cover the crack that would help. I found one that is T shaped, has a magnet strip for the stove side and 1 ½ wide at Amazon. It fits nice and hope it will be easier to clean the next time I move the stove out.
Years ago I was getting too many kitchen gadgets and not enough cupboard space. My kitchen is
U shaped, and fairly small. I love it for cooking since everything is a step away. I looked at it to see how I could add more cupboard space and look nice. I told the wife if we could find a nice cabinet to sit next to the stove I could add a section of top kitchen cabinet above it and give us more space. She found a nice oak cabinet that was a replica of an old pie safe and had pierced copper in the doors. It looked prefect.
I use the pie safe to store canned goods, salt, cooking spray etc.
The oak pie safe did not exactly match my kitchen cupboards so I picked out a top section that matched the cabinet. After I had it installed I added the wainscoting on the wall behind.
After cooking a while I noted if I fried anything that popped, like bacon, or searing meat I was getting splatters on the cabinet. My large burner just happens to be on the side of the cabinet. I thought if I get a 12 inch floor tile and some notched molding I can mount it to the cabinet and pull it out when I use the front burner. I found a marble tile that I liked and installed it. The notched molding Lowe’s had in stock that worked perfect. It saves a lot of cleaning splatters off the cabinet.
Writing this up and taking the photos gave me something to do today. I hope some will also find the tips useful.
My Kitchen
Marble tile installed
Pulled out
Strip in place on stove
Bottom of strip
Smokin Don
