Pete and I have a gas oven and hob that has served us fairly faithfully since we bought it in (must have been) 2001. We had a teensy weensy grill fire once, and since then the fan hasn’t worked particularly well – it comes on for a minute or so and then cuts out, rinse and repeat. No matter. Yesterday it decided that it was going to stay on permanently for some reason. Since we’re planning a new kitchen anyway, we took the easy solution – we turn the cooker off at the socket so the fan has no power.
We don’t use the oven that much, but we use the grill quite regularly. The grill has a black enamel tray, and we’ve always lined it with aluminium foil to reflect the heat better. We use recycled foil now (and not that much of it, since we don’t use it for anything else), but you can’t recycle it once it has been used in the grill because it’s far too greasy.
The grill pan gets very gungy. Everytime I get fed up with that grill smell I change the foil and wash out the pan. It’s a nasty job, and it’s always me that does it. Personally I would prefer not to line the tray with foil, but to treat it like a frying pan and wash it after every use. Pete won’t let me do that, because he reckons the lack of foil will mean everything takes longer to cook and we will be wasting energy.
Is he right? Is there a better solution that we haven’t thought of?
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