@IHeartAnimals it folds down to nothing, is super light and costs less than 10 USD.
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Me too. If the sitās in driving distance I also take my electric kettle. I only drink 1 cup of coffee per day so taking the time to figure out a fancy coffeemaker that likely makes a whole pot, just isnāt worth it to me.
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Can anyone explain why one would remove an oven door to clean it? Is that a thing?
I have this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09X48952C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1
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I would message them and make offer again. We once broke a fridge door handle it just came away in our hand. We glued it back together but I got the parts number and sent them a new one when we got home. They were very pleased with this.
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I had a food splash in between the inner and outer windows. Had to take the oven door apart to clean it. Never figured out how I ended up with a food splash in there, I didnāt notice when it happened, just saw one day that it was there.
Noted! Rest assured, I wonāt be doing it again! I hadnāt realised until this incident just how OCD Iāve become about end-of-sit cleaning. Itās not just about reviews, itās some kind of crazy perfectionism and I need to get a grip on it.
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I didnāt dismantle the door! I removed the inner glass panel, in case anything had splashed onto it (it hadnātā¦ 
) The idea was to wash it in the sink. Itās something I do at home. But I learned the hard way that some oven panels are harder to get out and put back than othersā¦
Iām a bit like that! Iāve not broken anything yet but Iām only on sit 7, so thereās still time! Try not to beat yourself up, your heart was in the right place and itās definitely a lesson learned. Also, by posting your experience, Iāve been able to read it and will be mindful of anything extra I clean!
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Like someone else mentioned, I never dismantle stuff to clean on sits. Besides cleaning, I try to prevent things from getting dirty in the first place, so I donāt have to clean unnecessarily.
Like if I microwave or use a toaster oven, I make sure stuff is covered (leaving an air gap) and/or I use something as a liner, whether foil, parchment paper, a cardboard lid, paper towel or whatever else might be handy. I do that at home, too.
Actually, I might start packing these when I sit. Theyāre light and multipurpose. Like I use them at home to prevent water or condensation stains on tables. I worry about damaging hostsā furniture, too.
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I burned one of the wooden spatula too during my sit and I informed the HO and replaced it with something similar. She was very cool about it and did not fret at all. But my worst nightmare is to break something of sentimental value that is irreplaceable. I think as a HO and sitter, I would treat any incident as how I would like to be treated.
As a HO, it is worse to come home and realize the sitter never told you they struggled with the coffee maker and left the coffee grind in the water reservoir, come home to a broken screendoor, or literally witness on my RING camera my puppy jump through the broken screendoor and escape. Anything can happen, and we cannot prevent accidents, but communication is important to me. We can use less assumption and more grace and communication.
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My post can be deleted.
I am a coffee addict. I carry one of these
ABSOLUTELYācheapest, easiest, tastiest way!
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We carry cheap paper plates to use as covers in the microwave. We can usually use them several times before we throw them away.
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Never thought of covering like that - unless using bowls for micro - but makes perfect sense. Also tip from Maggie8k about paper towels seem an easy solution.
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At my current sit, Iāve been using ceramic plates that perfectly fit over pasta plates/bowls that my hosts have, so I can contain splatters in the microwave. I just sit them so thereās a gap for steam to escape. Glad, because the microwave is at a higher than normal height, so would be harder to clean.
Yes it is!
Sorry. Somehow this got attached to the wrong post. Drinking decaff tea. So probably the reason my brain cells arenāt working properly!
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Iām glad everything turned out for! the best. By the way, there is a good forum thread about Coffee brewing including various suggestions for easy to travel with coffee makers you canāt break! Coffee brewing
Iāve broken a few things on sit and heard from panicked sitters who broke or thought they broke something in my home. Rule of thumb for me as a sitter: Iād never take something apart to clean it! A few months ago, I cam up against a particularly dirty microwave which I attempted to clean, but stopped myself at some point because I was scared the whole thing would disintegrate. I wouldnāt consider descaling a coffee machine my job. Iād be miffed if I needed to clean an oven to use it on a sit. If I used it and needed to clean it for a hostās return, Iād find a way that didnāt require disassembly. If a homeowner left these as tasks for me, weād have a talk about it!
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