My left arm always snags against these protruding door latches on this Oster microwave oven. This happens every time when placing or retrieving items using both hands. Not good!
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Pet peeve: Drawer pulls that have ends that catch in my pockets and belt loops. it seems like some version of these is installed in most new kitchens. IMO, they should be banned.
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I've ripped clothes on these and several times pulled a loaded drawer onto the floor (in someone else's kitchen). HATE!
I replaced some like that for a friend years ago, with some curved handles, with nothing to catch on - something that she couldn't find locally (though local places have much more these days!), but I had a very thick catalog (before the internet!) of woodworker's hardware, with countless knobs, handles, hinges, etc., and all of the measurements were given for the handles - center to center for the screw holes most important.Pet peeve: Drawer pulls that have ends that catch in my pockets and belt loops. it seems like some version of these is installed in most new kitchens. IMO, they should be banned.
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I've ripped clothes on these and several times pulled a loaded drawer onto the floor (in someone else's kitchen). HATE!
My pet peeve about badly designed appliances is about oven doors. Most oven doors have a vent near the top. Some of them have the vent on the horizontal surface on the top and stuff drips into the space between the two panes of glass. There's usually no way to clean that.
In my mother's apartment in Copenhagen, there was a stove that handled that. The inside pane of glass was removable. It was held in place with four wingnuts. Does that exist in North America yet?
I frelling hate when something can get dirty in a place that I can't access to clean.
I can take the oven door off, take out two screws and access the inside, mine has panes of glass. If I put something under the opened oven door, I can do it without taking it off, but since I'm usually cleaning the oven, I just do it with it off.
I clean this at least every 6 months, because the drips drive me batty!
Are the panes removable? Or is one attached to the front and the other attached to the inside. In the one I was talking about, the inside pane comes off and the other one is permanently attached. I actually washed that inside one in the sink. I think I prefer the easier, wingnut attachment. I'll have to check my oven door.
Pet peeve: Drawer pulls that have ends that catch in my pockets and belt loops. it seems like some version of these is installed in most new kitchens. IMO, they should be banned.
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I've ripped clothes on these and several times pulled a loaded drawer onto the floor (in someone else's kitchen). HATE!
...I have a hand crank pasta machine that is for right handed people. I don’t use it often but my DH get a kick out watching me try to crank the noodles out. I have to cross my arms to crank and catch them. ...
Interesting. I'm right-handed and I have a hand cranked pasta machine I mount on the kitchen counter. I find that I crank with my left hand and "catch" the pasta with my right. The cranking is a simple motion that requires little dexterity while guiding the pasta takes a little more attention.
That works fine if you don't need to carefully feed the pasta into the machine. But, I find the whole process a lot easier with another person doing part of the feed-crank-catch process.
It might make a difference on which edge of the table that the pasta machine is attached.
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It might make a difference on which edge of the table that the pasta machine is attached.
I find that once you start the pasta through the rollers, it takes care of itself.
LOL, taxy, it still mounts in the same direction...
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It would be much easier with two people, I’ll have to run that suggestion by DH. I’m just challenged by holding it with my left hand, cranking it with my left hand and catching it with my left hand. Probably my OCD working! I love this topic.