Addendum-
My SIl played the Wicked movie for my Mom and I. The singing was great. It was very enjoyable. It had almost nothing to do with the book. When I said that, my SIL kept insisting ‘all movie adaptations are like that’. I pointed out that other movies based on books I had seen did not differ from the source material any where near that much. She kept insisting that I was wrong. She admitted to never having read Wicked. Her opinion is thus meaningless. I did not tell her that.
Good times.
Why are you wasting your limited life energy dealing with this controversy in the first place?
They don’t like you. They might love you as family, but they don’t like you as a person. So GTFO and go home.
Ala SATC Samantha giving Charlotte her compact to go look at her vagina in the ladies room. 
I have a new stove. It only took them twenty minutes to remove the old one and install the new one. That included the few minutes it took me to sweep out the dust and cat toys that were under the old one.
It’s currently running a cleaning cycle to burn out the “moving stuff” from the oven, and then I need to let it air out (if I understood what the installer said correctly. Since I hadn’t planned on using it today anyway, I’m going to take some time to read through the manual before using it.
My response to that would have been: “Your world may nor revolve around me, but mine does.” If I was in a bad mood I might have added that she could take her opinions about your grocery shopping and exercises, fold them until they are all corners, and place them firmly some place where the sun doesn’t shine.
It’s stories like yours that make me so happy with my family.
The movie isn’t an adaptation of the book, it’s a pretty faithful adaptation of Act I of the stage musical.
An anecdote, FWIW: All the stoves I’ve ever had in my life have been electric. Only the last two had “self-cleaning” ovens. Only the last two had the oven bake elements burn out. After I replaced the oven element in the current one, I haven’t used the self-cleaning feature since. YMMV.
Which century was this failing over made in? The 19th?
Oven self-cleanings are properly every 6-12 month affairs. It beggars belief that occasional exposure to 10% higher temps have any material effect on oven longevity.
I don’t wish to escalate any sort of argument here between the canine species and, presumably, a worthy human, but what beggars belief is the idea that a temperature 10% higher than normal baking temperatures is going to incinerate the crap that said baking might produce. Because in fact the self-cleaning cycle typically reaches temperatures of around 900°F or so, and might be maintained for hours. Which is why self-cleaning ovens typically auto-lock during the cycle and are exceptionally well insulated.
In any case, I do not present myself as some sort of canine expert on oven tech. I know how to “sit” and “stay” but that’s about it. I’m just reporting on a very limited sample of lived experience. I’m sure that running occasional self-cleaning cycles in an oven designed for it is probably harmless, but oven elements do burn out, and self-cleaning stresses the factors that can lead to failure.
I too am no expert. My thoughts, be they skilled or stupid, went like this …
To talk about energy, thermal expansion, etc., temps need to be measured in absolute. Routine cooking is at up to ~450F which is really 900 absolute Fahrenheit-sized degrees (AKA Rankine scale) since absolute zero is -459 Fahrenheit-sized degrees.
My assumption is that self-cleaning temps were about 650F, or 1100R. So the actual thermal energy increment is from 900R to 1100R is about 20%. My original guess was that self cleaning temps were cooler than that, so the percentagewise increment was smaller.
If self-cleaning temps are really 900F, so 1350R, then the energy increment from 900R to 1350R is about 50%, not 10%.
Woof! That’s a big bite. 
My dear fellow, you appear to be digging yourself in deeper. I thought I was the only one who did that, usually out back in the flower beds and getting yelled at for it.
For some reason – I can’t possibly imagine why – I found myself thinking about a chart I saw some years ago showing how atmospheric CO2 levels have varied over time, and in particular, how they’ve supposedly increased in the post-industrial era. Turns out, according to the chart, they haven’t really changed much at all.
Since the chart was published by a known global warming denier, I first looked at the associated values on the vertical scale, and they were actually reasonably correct.
Then I noticed that the chart was using a baseline CO2 value of zero!
I haven’t read what the manual has to say about the self-cleaning feature yet, so I don’t know how it’s supposed to work. I didn’t do a lot of cooking in the oven of my old stove, relying instead on my trusty toaster oven. (One of the advantages of living alone is that I can get away with this.) So I suspect that I’ll probably be relying on hand-cleaning the oven unless for some reason I have a major spill.
Continuing the Pit tradition of topics wandering all over the place, you might appreciate the benefits of an air fryer, depending on your culinary preferences. I’ve had mine for about a year now (Ninja AF101 – one of the most popular models, and low cost) and love it.
The major benefit is not so much that it produces stuff much better than a regular oven, but that it does it so much faster. But some things really do turn out better. For me, some of the things it’s great for are chicken wings, sausage rolls, and 5-minute fries. If I happen to get peckish in the middle of the night, I can be munching on crispy chicken wings in about the same amount of time it would take a regular stove oven to just warm up.
Several Rants In One
First, yesterday afternoon I received a text from buidling management. It said that since it would be very cold we should leave the faucets dripping to prevent the pipes from freezing. As it wasn’t nearly as cold when I left for Florid and neithe of the other two buildings I have lived in required you to leave the faucets dripping during cold weather, I had not left the faucets dripping. Foolishly, I mentioned this to my family. I messaged the two friends who are getting my mail and asked them to leave the faucets dripping. A few hours later, I messaged them again to be sure they had done so. They said they had been unable to get to my apartment that day. My sister became very anxious and concerned, She repeatedly told me what would happen if the pipes froze. I told her I already knew. She insisted I call maintenance and have them leave the faucets dripping. I did not want to tell her that #1 maintenance is monstrously incompetent and #2 if maintenance saw the state of my apartment there is a good chance they would evict me for “extreme hoarding”. I just urged her to let the matter drop. My Mom and SIl urged her to let the matter drop. Of course, she kept bringing it up. At one point, overcome by frustration I slammed my hands down on the chair I was sitting on. Everybody noticed and gave subtle signs that they thought I was over reacting, My sister proceeded to bring up it again. I got very angry. Rather than starting another fight, I declared “I’m going upstairs!”. Eventually, my sister came up and apologized. Later, she texted me that everybody was going to watch a movie and I should come down. I went up again to take a shower. When I was done, I found another text from my sister. It said to come downstairs for a surprise. I did and my sister and SIL had bought me a slice of peanut butter/chocolate pie with chocolate chips and chocolate graham cracker crust. It was a very thoughtful thing to do, and the pie was excellent.
I would hate to feel that I’ve dissuaded you from using a feature on your nice new stove, but I was truthfully relaying my experience in this area, albeit with a very small sample size. If it were me, I’d use the self-cleaning feature only when really necessary.
But then, I have the same approach to using the dishwasher. Is running a dishwasher “harmful”? Here we get into deep waters of philosophy and semantics. Let me put it this way. Many years ago I saw a dishwasher out on the curb for pickup by the junk-appliance guys. It was the exact same model that I have – no surprise, because those were the dishwashers that the builder installed in this neighbourhood, and came with the house. But my dishwasher is still running fine many years later. Why?
Maybe just dumb luck, but going from the reasonable assumption that a dishwasher has some finite number of cycles before the water pump or some other critical component fails, running it once a week instead of once or twice a day should yield statistically predictable beneficial outcomes.
I am staying until Saturday for several reasons-
Changing my flight last minute would be very expensive. I would also not have a ride available if the flight arrived during work hours and would need to use Lyft or Uber.
If I needed to be at the airport during work hours, I would need to use vacation/ sick time I doubt I have.
If I announce I am leaving early, it would almost certainly start a very large fight.
Our Mom came this past Saturday. She is 81. She has seven things wrong with her spine. One lung is mostly collapsed due to pressure from her misshapen spine. She developed neuropathy or something similar in her feet this year. She has always been somewhat absent minded and forgetful. This has definitely gotten worse this past year and it is very likely she is in the beginning stages of progressive dementia. This may be the last time we can be together as a family,
I’m really looking forward to eating meals without the accompaniment of dripping kitchen faucets. -4F this morning.
By tomorrow we should be able to stop the drips.
I’ve been looking into getting an air fryer based on similar recommendations from others. The primary reason for not yet doing so (besides general inertia) has been trying to figure out where to put it. Unfortunately counter space is at a premium in my kitchen, which is why my slow-cooker is in a cabinet and taken out when I need to use it. I am in the process of re-organizing my kitchen to try to alleviate this situation.
My house came with a dishwasher which has never been used except during the pre-purchase inspection. Again, living alone it’s just as easy for me to hand-wash the few dishes I use every day, and it doesn’t make sense to let dirty dishes pile up until the dishwasher is full.
For dripping faucets I put a fold up tea towel inside a colander in the sink and never hear the dripping faucets. One has been on in my bathroom since last Sunday night. I hate that sound so I came up with this method.
But I am looking forward to turning off the dripping for sure.
I don’t see why not (“full” in this sense meaning enough stuff in it to make running it worthwhile). I’m not averse to hand-washing an item that I know I’m going to need again very shortly. But there’s no point in having a dishwasher if you’re never going to use it. My point is only that I use it efficiently. I reject the idea that running a dishwasher should be a nightly after-dinner event. Unless you have a large family, in which case OK, but I expect the various members of said family to contribute to the cost of the next dishwasher, including the cost of Ukrainian plumbers, which I happen to know is quite high! 
I absolutely detest washing dishes by hand, and a dishwasher using very hot water and a good detergent is arguably more sanitary and certainly produces a nicer sparkle! 
I had the same issue. I ended up making room for it on a small section of counter just to the left of the stove. My reasoning was that I wanted a heat-proof surface nearby to set down the basket, and a glass-top stove was ideal. At first it looked rather disturbingly prominent, but I got used to it, and since it’s so useful it’s a welcome presence in my kitchen. Note, though, that its usefulness to you will depend on the kinds of foods you like to cook. While “air fryer” is something of a euphemism – they’re really just small convection ovens – it’s mostly fried stuff that they do particularly well with, including homemade french fries!