KimMC

I'm not worried about the power going out, we have wood stoves to. There are two stoves on sale right now one is a self cleaning the other isn't. The difference is about $100. The only thing I don't like about the self cleaning one on sale is it's black. lol It might grow on me, but I wanted a white one to brighten the kitchen up. But really the only reason I'll spend the extra money is if they really do bake a lot better. I've never had one before! Cleaning an oven isn't THAT hard if you don't put it off to long. lol Or get your hubby to do it for you.

We are needing to get a new stove soon and hubby was checking out prices yesterday. The appliance store mentioned to him that a self cleaning oven bakes better than a normal oven because it's better insulated. They also said the GE brands were better for canning because they have a tighter spaced coil on the stove burners. The burners I can see that would be logical, although I've never ever had trouble canning on a normal stove. But I've never had a self cleaning oven sooo do they really bake better? I'm tired of buying used stoves and not having them work right after a while. It seems that with in a year of us buying a used stove the thermostat for the oven goes on it. Since they are older ones, you have to use a generic thermostat and the oven just does not regulate as well after that. If a self cleaning oven really does bake better we might go with that. But if not, that difference in price will do a lot of other renovations around here!

Hi everyone! I've been AWOL from the forums for far to long now. I've missed you all and hope to pop back in more often! We've been very busy getting the gardens in. I'm just about done now. It's been so terribly dry here. Last year we had a drought, next to no snow cover over the winter and hardly any rain this spring. The ground is like dust, down 3 inches. Even the farmers fields are blowing dust everywhere. But it looks like we might get some rain this afternoon. I'm hoping to finish transplanting into my last raised bed before that.

Congrats! Your new home is beautiful, LOVE the kitchen!

Sat & Sun I did 19 pints of bread and butter pickles. Yesterday I finished 10 pints of diced tomatoes and 9 quarts of zucchini relish. I'm hoping today to start on huckleberry jam and our volcano pickles.

Thanks Stephanie! Unfortunately I can't find it :-(. I don't see any categories options listed in the blog settings...

Ok feeling silly here...But how do you add categories to this blog?

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