How is it that humans have yet to come up with a drawer at the bottom of kitchen ovens that actually works?
Seriously though, I’ve never operated one that didn’t require a minute or more of struggle – down on the ground hauling like a pack mule on this flimsly drawer while it squeaks and groans and contorts and rumbles and INEVITABLY falls off its painfully inadequate rails!
Then you finally get the baking sheet you’re so desparately seeking (which is guaranteed to be buried at the absolute bottom of the pile, even though it’s the only one you ever use) and the battle is only half over, beccause the restacking and reclosing game is no better! It’s like a sick, sick joke, but I’m sure as hell not laughing.
—Whatever happened to the Maytag guy?
This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2009.
well, mine seems to work fine. weird.
Hahah I’m with OP. I’ve never had one that works either. Maybe it has something to do with the heat from the oven warping the drawer? No idea.
Mine always worked just fine. It’s actually spring loaded – you push it in a bit til it clicks to release it…. nothing fancy, just a 5-year old run of the mill stove…
So True! Our oven is brand new and already the stupid drawer is off the rails!!!!
I have a brand new GE one and it slides in and out smoother than cummm off a gold tooth…..
This is an excellent bitch.
I battle with the oven drawer on a weekly basis. Why won’t it stay on the rollers??? And why is the cookie sheet always on the bottom???
“This is an excellent bitch…”
?!
Only because it is indicative of the domestication and trivialization of this forum…what’s next…”I can’t find a good dish soap”, or “My boyfriend leaves the toilet seat up’?
Bah
Yes Frosty, I do consider this an excellent bitch.
Not only because I could actually see myself struggling with the stupid oven drawer as I was reading it, but because it doesn’t deal with Metro Transit, cyclists vs motorists, smokers vs non-smokers, or the toll obesity takes on our health care system.
Last time I checked, this wasn’t the UN. This forum is SUPPOSED to be trivia.
Agreed Jennie. Trivial shit that annoys people is what LTWWB is all about. Occasionally we accidentally talk about something with substance but that’s the exception, not the rule.
Trivial. Oops.
Domestication? Trivialization? Four out of every five bitches has to do with failed relationships, shitty landlords, mistreated pets and noisy neighbours, and every single one is trivial – That’s why it’s called Love The Way We Bitch, and not Love the Way We Take Action.
Considering domestic life is a rather large part of life, what direction would you prefer this thread take? Industrialization? Commercialization? Magnification? Self-realization? Anal penetration?
Bah yourself.
Good one, Frosty: the toilet seat left up! UGH!
I find it easier to stand cookie sheets, cutting boards and such on its side along one side of a cupboard instead of laying them flat. It uses less room and they are easier to access. The secret to the stove drawer is to not fill it too full and open it evenly and slowly.
You mean to tell me, there’s a drawer under the damn oven ?!?
>goes & looks<
Bloody hell there is too.
Well it always nice to learn new things… I wonder what I should stash in there…hmmmm the chocolate’s probably not a good idea .
Don’t bother More. That stupid drawer will let you down every time.
I have a propane stove and the drawer underneath isn’t for storage. It’s two roasting pans/warming drawer. It’s awesome! And it opens/closes just fine.
try putting a little cooking oil on the sliders once every couple of months. or move to a better unit. or buy tyour own stove, and bitch to makers then.
Ditto on oil, my stove belonged to my grandmother. It’s at least 40 years old and I can open that drawer with a pinky.
I have to agree, I’ve never experienced such a problem with opening the drawer… And as to why the cookie sheet is always on the bottom? because when you put everything (obviously too much) back in its maticulous place, you put it on the bottom…
And speaking of kitchen related bitches, why is the lid to the Tupperware I’ve already filled with leftovers always the one that is missing?
i think my stove drawer eats my pans…as for socks i don’t own a dryer but no one in the house wears a matching pair…maybe i’m living in the 3rd dimension gack
Great bitch!
Much better than the daily relationship bitch directed at someone in particular that the rest of us don’t know, about some specific relationship conflict we know nothing about. Everybody has an oven! We can all appreciate how frustrating those drawers can be.
Bravo.
I avoid the whole problem and don’t bother with that bleedin’ drawer. I keep my pans in the microwave stand… That’s never swallowed my pots. Yet.
I always just use a microwave. What’s an oven?
qpmzwonxeibcruv, we know yo mama (not Yo Mama = ) still cooks for you.