Ya' know, if I didn't know better, I would begin to think some nefarious force has placed a curse on my kitchen!
Last week my microwave (my less-than-4-month-old microwave) died! I mean dead. No lights, no nothing.
This made heating Easter dinner leftovers a royal pain. I am actually a little wary of microwaves and would be happy to not have one. I have lived without a microwave and it can be done. However, I have found that my kids will eat more leftovers when they don’t have to put them in a pot and stir, or wait for something to heat up a half hour in the oven. I hate to throw away food even more than I dislike microwaves. So, now I have to buy a new microwave. The Oster company is honoring our warranty and refunding our money, but that will probably get here months from now…you know how that goes! Not only that, but we got a great deal on that microwave, and it looks like a new one will cost us a good $50 more than what I originally paid.
Then, the blender attachment to my Bosch kitchen machine stopped working (again).
There is a design flaw in the part of the blender that attaches to the drive shaft and it gets stripped, thus making the blender not blend. Well, I am rather partial to smoothies, so I actually use my blender. I have already replaced this part 2-3 times! And I refuse to pay another $15 or so to get another little bit that is just going to break in a few months. So, I will have to buy a new blender.
Are you keeping count?? That's two appliances that need replacing.
Then yesterday, I was being domestic diva (baking bread, making homemade Lara bars, etc.) and the glass bowl to my vintage KitchenAid mixer slipped out of my hands into the sink and broke! Waaaaaah!
This was my grandmother’s mixer and has great sentimental value to me. It is a model 4C which was produced from the early 1960's through the 1970's. The company doesn't even make a glass bowl that fits this mixer anymore. I have looked online and found a metal replacement at the tune of about $50 plus shipping! :-0 To replace it with a glass bowl like the one that comes with it is hard to find and costs even more dough (pun intended.) Although my Bosch kitchen machine is great for kneading bread and mixing really large batches of stuff, we regularly used the KitchenAid for cookie dough, cakes, icing, etc.
And then to top it all off, while I was still trying to hold back the tears over the broken mixer bowl, my kitchen sink suddenly and mysteriously decided to refuse to drain!
It was working fine, and then all of a sudden it wasn’t. We have poured chemicals down it, boiling water, and tried a plunger. We even went to the hardware store and bought a plumber's snake. 15 feet of snake later, still no drainage. GAAAAAARRRRRGH!
Score:
Kitchen appliances to be replaced plus a plumber's bill -- 4
My bank account -- 0
Do you think the plumber could be bribed with homemade bread???
1 comment:
Well you could try! It might put him in a good mood and he'll keep his bill as low as possible. It's funny (not in a ha-ha way) the way appliances all seem to go at once. As if they can communicate with each other and say, "Let's make this human's life as difficult - and expensive - as possible."
Could you perhaps pick up a glass bowl from a second hand store? I had a wonderful ceramic glass bowl for my mixer and when I broke it I had to replace it with plastic. Plastic! Just not the same. Then the mixer broke and I had to get a new one anyway (which is now broken and in pieces on my spare bed because Son#3 decided to take it apart to see if he could fix it - he can but it will cost more than a new one).
Being at that stage where I have to look for new kitchen appliances, I can sympathise. Why can't they make them the way they did in our grandmother's day - when they were made to last?
Blessings, Jules
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