You blew it, Home Depot!

The new stove…..

I got a new stove.  The old one was in need of repair (once again) and having done so several times, I decided it was more prudent to replace it.

I had planned to do so for several months.  I had even gone into the local (Parkesburg, PA) Home Depot during one of their big “Appliance Sales” to try to give my local merchants my business.  I had several things to purchase, so I filled my cart and headed to the appliance section.  Big signs hanging overhead declared the “Big” sale.  I wandered around the stoves and actually found one that I really liked.  I waited and waited and wandered and waited….I was there for close to 30 minutes and not a single sales person came into the area (other than to wander through from other areas to go on breaks).  No one asked if I needed help.  No one seemed to be anywhere near the area that was having a “Big” sale.  So, I finally decided if that was the kind of service I could expect in just trying to buy the item, it was not the place I would want to buy my appliance from.  I did stop at the front of the store and complained stating that I would be heading to Sears to purchase my stove…. And then I left.

I did eventually go to the local Sears Hometown store.  They, too, were having a sale, but I was approached as I walked in the door and had some wonderful interaction with the salesperson and the manager of the store as we arranged for the delivery of my beautiful new stove.  The only disappointment was that I was not able to get my stove in the color of the other appliances in my kitchen.  Every kitchen appliance I had was in the color Almond or Bisque, depending on when I bought it) but the kitchen color choices were either white or stainless.  So my new stove is stainless with black.  It is stunning.

My BFF Marji’s husband came up with her on Saint Patrick’s Day.  I fed them corned beef and then he disconnected my old stove from the gas line.  He moved it out onto the deck and then he and his son came and picked it up to sell for scrap.  Then later in the week Sears came and delivered the stove and the day after my gas supplier came out and installed the stove after converting it from natural gas to propane.  I was back in business.

I heated the oven up several times that day with nothing in it to burn off the oils and things from the manufacturing process.  Then I have been baking and cooking and enjoying the fact that I have ovens and burners that come on without waiting.  It is a convection oven as well and I am learning to push that button when I am cooking (not baking) and finding that it is indeed cutting down on the length of time that stuff has to cook.  I had not gone into the process looking for a convection oven, but very quickly I am finding myself very happy that it is there.

Here are some pics of the new appliance…