Our New Ovens!

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WE HAVE NEW OVENS!
As in "ovens" plural.  As in TWO.  Which is very exciting!  Just think of all the food we'll be able to cook come Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years and birthdays and Wednesdays when the rolls need to be cooked on a different temperature than the lasagna and and and there are endless possibilities.

Before the old oven escapes completely from our minds as quickly as it was removed from the house, let's take a moment to remember fondly the horrors it made us endure:
1.  The 450 degree blast of air that burned your face as soon as you opened the oven door.
2.  The door that didn't close all the way.
3.  The way it would be set at 300 degrees and overheat to 500 degrees and shut itself off.
4.  How is would incessantly beep when it shut itself off.  Or how it would incessantly beep for no reason.  In the middle of the night.
5.  How we were worried that the incessant beeping meant that it was going to explode so we had to shut the circuit breaker off after each use and turn it back on again when we needed it next.  It's cold in the garage in the middle of winter by the way.  Almost, but not quite, cold enough to risk blowing up.
6.  Oh it was ugly, let's not forget that.

There are many more ways we hated that infernal thing but I'm done discussing it's faults.
Not surprisingly we never took any amazing pictures of the horrendous thing, but here are a few shots of us painting the walls in the kitchen that have a small view of it.

It was an oven on the bottom and a microwave on the top.  Notice the two drawers, we sadly had to lose one, but it was worth it!  Btw hi Dad!  Make sure you're safe as you climb all the way to the ceiling to paint while bracing the ladder against the fridge.

See what an amazing difference tan paint instead of pink makes to a room!?!
There's a close up of the microwave.

But they are gone!  And THIS is in their place!

Btw do you like all our tree foliage reflected in the glass doors?  We do too :)
But see how pretty these are?!  So nice and streamlined.  The one on top is a regular oven and the one on bottom is a convection oven.  I think.  I may have gotten that switched.  Well it's one way or the other at least.  We ended up choosing KitchenAid over Bosch because with Bosch we would have lost both drawers and had to bend really far down to open the bottom oven.  With this one we only lost one drawer but it's ok, we'll just put our cast iron pans somewhere else since we barely use them anyway.  Sorry Paula Deen.

Oh and did I mention it's blue inside?!  Nice touch :)

Here is our first meal cooking.  Enchiladas yum.  Yes Sarah, we made whole wheat ones for you.  Don't freak.

All warm and cheesy and no blast of heat!  I checked.  I opened the door and kept my face really close to the door (with my eyes closed just in case) and all I felt was a warm balmy breeze with thunder rolling in the background.  Not exactly the beach but hey it's as close as I'm going to get with my limited leave time this year.  More importantly, no chemical heat peel happened!

So there you have it.  The most exciting Tuesday of this year so far!  And Sarah comes home tonight so double exciting!  (I hope she doesn't feel the need to bake a cheesecake immediately at 2am, I've used up all the cream cheese so it shouldn't be a problem but I wouldn't put it past her . . . )