Break #1: Cleaning

Chore? Chores!
As usual, I need to clean the fridge once a week, and the best time to clean it is when it's near empty! Maybe tomorrow morning before cooking breakfast, sometime before dawn.

And the stove, the stove! Though I wipe it clean every day (usually at night) with soap and water to avoid the cooking oil build-up, it still needs some serious cleaning due to the serious build-up on the surfaces of the bronze burner and on the metal surrounding it. But besides the liquid dishwashing soap that is apparently ineffective on the black spots, what else could I use?

Some options:
1- try mild zonrox (maybe I'll soak it?)
2- scrubbing it hard with the metal scrubber (*nah! I don't have that much energy)
3- never mind, I'm too tired
4- I'm tired but I'll do it when I feel like it (*once in a blue moon)
5- scrub a little every night with the dishwashing soap so that the build-up lessens (not a real solution though; it's for maintenance, but might work)
6- try some cleansing powder

If I get a chance to work and actually develop a household product in the chemical industry, I think I'd want a cleaning product to work on. Let's see... something biochemically safe and chemically effective!

How I wish they taught us in class how to apply theoretical chemistry in practical situations like cleaning! But then again, I guess it would be some kind of adventure to discover exactly what works on what. It sure would save me a lot of time and would help improve my attitude in cooking. I want the stove to look pretty clean, pretty good, and pretty new. (I've avoided all the baking recipes so far as well, 'coz I'm not in the mood to clean the oven yet. If it looked dirty, who else would have to clean it?! So... nevermind the oven!)