How are you doing with kitchen appliance maintenance??

This, let the truth be told, is the mound of dust bunnies at the base of our refrigerator I discovered this week upon investigating why our 15 year old refrigerator wasn't cooling our food properly!  Mighty embarrassing, I know.  The manual stated that the condenser coils needed to be cleaned by vacuuming "every other month".  WHOA.......in that effort I failed miserably.  So, folks, this is a friendly reminder to keep your appliance manuals handy and refer to them now and then.  Don't wait until you have a malfunction like I did!
P.S.  It turned out that even a thorough cleaning didn't resurrect our frig, but who knows how its happy life might have been extended had I been more vigilant??
Now that I have shared my story, I invite you to share a true horror story of a kitchen appliance in your life!  Come on, BLOG AWAY!!

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