4th Quarter - Frith TV and Appliance Repair

FRITH APPLIANCE REPAIR
NEWSLETTER
SINCE 1983
DUBUQUE IA
frithappliance.com
(563) 556-0600
FOURTH QUARTER 2015
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A HELPFUL APPLIANCE HINT
Getting ready for holiday baking?
Try Convection Baking
Are you confused about that “convection” setting on your oven?
Chances are that you have never used the convection setting on your
oven since day one. Why not give it a try?
• A record 3.3 million students are expected to graduate
from U.S. high schools this
year.
Here’s some information that will help you in experimenting with convection baking. If this doesn’t help or you need more information, just
call us. We can help.
• Less than 6% of Americans
leave money to charitable organizations after death.
Lower temperature convection baking can cook many dishes more
evenly and up to 20% faster than a regular oven. The convection setting
uses a fan in the oven to circulate hot air. This makes it a great method
for cooking meats and fish and vegetables. It is also a great option for
beautifully-browned breads and pies. If you’ve got something cooking
that could easily splatter, it probably doesn’t like convection.
• Percentage of homes that
have only wireless phones:
16%
If your recipe does not give convection baking instructions, the general
baking rule is to drop the temperature by 25°F and
start checking for doneness after three-quarters of the
normal cooking time. Do some experimentation. You
will be impressed with convection cooking once you
become comfortable with the method and the changes
that make it different from regular baking.
• Percentage of Americans
that have only analog TV sets
and will be impacted by the
February 17, 2009 transition to
digital TV: 20%
MAJOR APPLIANCE MAILBOX
Q.
A.
My microwave oven interior is greasy and
spattered and is beginning to smell. Is there
any easy way to clean it without a lot of
scrubbing and harsh cleaners?
Signed—Going Green in Muscatine
Reply is on Page 3
• The age that working
Americans consider to be old:
73
• The number of hours annually that a typical business executive spends on hold on the
telephone: 68 hours
• The average time spent
driving daily: 72 minutes
Be Well.
Have Fun.
Do Good Things.
All About My …
Range Hood
FYI: Fruit and Veggie
Stickers
Range hoods can be vented or non-vented. The most functional type
for capturing and venting outside smoke, heat and steam are the vented
type. Non-vented merely recirculate this stuff back into the room after
going through a charcoal filter.
Hood filters should be cleaned every few months. If you cook a lot,
clean them more frequently. Many can be cleaned in the dishwasher.
Check your owner manual or call the hood manufacturer.
Hoods can be over the range or downdraft units that require no overhead venting. Many of these downdraft models are retractable, telescoping hoods. In general, updraft hoods are more effective.
To eliminate or reduce the noise from the vent hood, the noisy part –the
blower – can be remotely located (in the attic or roof). Hoods with internal blowers, however, are sometimes much easier to work on or to
replace.
Experts recommend that the hood be at least 3-6 inches wider than the
cooking area below and stick out far enough in front to cover the front
burners or elements of the cooktop. If this is done, you will spend
much less time scrubbing grease off of the surrounding cabinets and
walls.
When shopping for a hood, you will need to decide the airflow that is
needed. Hoods are rated by CFM or the cubic feet per minute of airflow. A good rule of thumb for calculating the CFM needed is to add
all of the BTU outputs of the surface cooking burners or elements and
divide that total by 100.
Call us if you would like some additional maintenance information
about the hood you already have or if you have questions about selecting a range hood. We can help.
Have you ever wondered about
those stickers on the fruits and
vegetables you buy and just what
they mean? The numbers on the
stickers let us know whether the
food is conventionally grown,
organic, or genetically modified
(GM).
The code for the numbers on the
stickers is as follows:
• A 4 digit code means conventionally grown
• A 5 digit code beginning
with 9 means organic
• A 5 digit code beginning
with 8 means GM
Fun Fruit & Veggie Fact
The average number of miles
that produce travels from farm
producer to your table in the
U.S. is 1,500 miles.
Are you Smarter Than a
Fifth Grader?
Maybe it’s time you explored
the local Farmer’s Market in
your community!
Here goes…
Are you a bit
nervous?
Can you name the seven
continents?
Here they are in
alphabetical order:
Africa
Antarctica
Australia
Asia
Europe
North America
South America
Which continent is the smallest?
Here they are ranked by size in (rounded)
millions of square miles:
Asia – 17.1 million
Africa – 11.7 million
North America – 9.4 million
South America – 6.9 million
Antarctica – 5.5 million
Europe – 4.0 million
Australia – 3.0 million
MAJOR APPLIANCE MAILBOX (cont’d from page 1)
A.
Dear Going Green in Muscatine:
You bet there is! Harsh chemicals and lots of elbow grease are not always the best answer
for cleaning those greasy microwave splatters. Here’s a way that is simple, effective, good
smelling (and green, too):
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Remove all excess dirt and grime and debris with a damp cloth from the interior and the inner door
Use lemon wedges from one lemon or use lemon juice (2-3 TBSP) and add to three cups of water in a
microwave-safe bowl.
“Cook” this water for as long as it takes to boil that much water. Microwave ovens will differ in power.
Keep the microwave door shut and let the mixture cool down for about fifteen minutes. Don’t get in a big
hurry. Sit down and drink some coffee or something. Read a chapter in a book. We want steam to
build up inside the oven.
Carefully remove the bowl.
Wipe the inside and inner door using a warm damp rag.
Repeat the above steps if necessary.
Call us if you have questions or comments or have a better method.
Helpful hint: Perform this cleaning before the interior gets too dirty and greasy.
CLIP ‘N’ SAVE * * * CLIP ‘N’ SAVE * * * CLIP ‘N’ SAVE
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Homemade Cleaning Solutions
Rubbing Alcohol: Spray rubbing alcohol on those hard to
clean window smudges, and wipe down. Reduce streaking by
using your old newspapers instead of paper towels. Rubbing alcohol also works to get that pesky hair spray residue off of eyeglasses.
Baking Soda: Mix baking soda with warm water for an inexpensive cleaner comparable to
commercial ‘abrasive’ cleaners. For an effective drain cleaner and deodorizer, mix baking soda
with hot water. Don’t forget baking soda in your refrigerator and freezer to absorb odors.
White vinegar: When diluted in equal parts of water, white vinegar makes a great all-purpose
cleaner. Avoid using vinegar solutions on marble or grout, but it's perfect for all other surfaces in
the kitchen and bathroom. For a cheap mold remover, spray vinegar directly on mold and let set.
Borax (Sodium Borate): Borax is best known as a hard-water laundry soap, but it also cleans
wallpaper, painted walls, and other painted surfaces. This versatile naturally-occurring mineral
also preserves cut flowers and can be used to repel roaches and other bugs without toxic fumes
or chemicals. Borax can be an irritant, however, so protect your eyes and hands, and, of course,
do not ingest.
Lemon Juice: Like vinegar, the acidic nature of lemon juice makes for a great cleaning and
deodorizing solution, especially in the bathroom. Use lemon juice on hard-water stains, soap
scum, even rust stains in the shower, tub, and toilet. Mix lemon juice with salt to remove stubborn stains from coffee pots. Mix lemon juice with baking soda for softer, paste-like cleaning
solution. Add a little to olive oil for an effective wood polish. Blend it with water to make a potent air freshener.
Want to Show Your Age?
Do you remember when these were ‘IN’?
Here are the top 25 things (according to Walletpop.com) that we wish
would make a comeback...see if any of them are what you miss the
most!
25.) Grape Nehi Soda
These didn’t make the list but
24.) H&G Magazine
remember:
23.) Use of vowels
22.) Lard in pastry
Culottes
21.) Howard Johnson's
Moon boots
20.) Vent windows in cars
Polyester leisure suits
19.) Screaming Yellow Zonkers
Spandex biker shorts
18.) Train Travel
Harem pants
17.) New Harry Potter Books
Fanny packs
16.) Chromed Metal
Zoot suits
15.) Gelatin Salad
14.) Drive In Theaters
13.) Gas Attendants (they still exist in New Jersey & Oregon)
12.) Milkshakes with milk
11.) 45 rpm records
10.) McDonald's Fried Pie
9.) Cursive writing
8.) Full size spare tires
7.) Day games during baseball playoffs
6.) Phone booths
5.) Pleasurable air travel
4.) Hydrox cookies
3.) Easy to open packaging
2.) In store lunch counters
1.) THE FAR SIDE by Gary Larsen!
What household activity
burns the most calories?
A. Doing laundry
B. Vacuuming
C. Cleaning house
Washer/Dryer Vibration
and Noise Issues
Does it sound like there is a helicopter hovering in your laundry
room when your washer begins to
spin?
If your washer is on a pedestal, or
stacked or sitting in a drain pan,
vibration and noise can be a real
problem!
Call us today and we’ll show you
how using specially designed vibration isolation/noise reduction
pads can take the ‘shake away’.
These pads from KE ShakeAway
do not stop the machine from vibrating, but nine out of ten times
they will reduce or eliminate the
transfer of that vibration and noise
to your floor support structure. Go
to www.keshakeaway.com for
more information.
Get rid of that helicopter….call us
today.
Based upon a 150-pound adult, doing
laundry burns 133 calories per half
hour. Just so you don’t feel too silly
for choosing ‘b’ or ‘c’, the other two
options are close: cleaning house
burns 127 calories and vacuuming
burns 123 calories.
Answer: A