Gotta' Love Idiots!

[FCD]

Ya' just gotta' love idiots sometimes...they're great for a really good belly laugh sometimes!! 

So, we have a big commercial stove in our kitchen (as some of you former ATS'ers may recall).  Love the stove, but these stoves can be a bear to clean sometimes.  Today was cleaning day.  After I got done I was looking for something like a stove mat to cover the areas in between the burners to make cleaning easier.  In the process of looking for a product which would work I came across another product which is a silicone mat for covering glass cook tops (not like ours).  These things cover the entire cook top.  Well, I instantly knew this would probably be entertainment gold, so I just had to look.  It was on Amazon, and there were like 3,400 reviews.  Oh boy!  (I know, I know...I'm so cynical).

These covers are just for covering your stove when not in use, but I just knew I'd see someone who turned their stove on (even if by accident) with one of these covers on.  I wasn't disappointed.  There were many.  Now, I could understand if someone made a mistake and turned their stove on, but what cracked me up was all the 1 star reviews calling the product junk because...wait for it...they couldn't "cook" on top of it!  And, it got even better.  People were posting pictures along with their reviews of the charred remains of these mats with comments like..."This product SUCKS ballz!...damn near burnt the joint to the ground!!"  People were upset after they intentionally turned on their stoves with this mat still on their stove, and then shocked when it..."Burst into flames!  DOH!!!"  One person even posted a picture of one of these things on fire!!!  They had time to take out their phone and snap a picture of the tragic event for their precious review...'Fuck da' house!'  LOL!!!  (snort).  And, I'd be willing to bet, if their house really did burn down they'd have been first in line at the insurance company (right after they called some ambulance chasing attorney cos..."IMMA' SUE THE BASTAGES!!").

Now granted, it is a pretty dumb product, candidly, but still...the idiocy of people just knows no boundaries anymore.  And we wonder why shirts have warning labels which read..."Remove garment before ironing."  Well, now we know!

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Now granted, it is a pretty dumb product, candidly, but still...the idiocy of people just knows no boundaries anymore.  And we wonder why shirts have warning labels which read..."Remove garment before ironing."  Well, now we know!

I knew where this was going once we arrived at silicone cover for glass stovetops.

Did anybody ask in the Q&A section if they could use it on their gas or electric stoves? This product seems like there could be a maelstrom of idiots swirling around it.

Godspeed on the commercial stove cover. The best I've seen are on commercial stoves that have what amounts to a metal "skirt" with cutouts for the burners. It's still a nightmare because the skirts only work in the broad flat spaces between burners, but to really clean you then have to pull the whole skirt off anyway because there are always large gaps. The easier to handle and smaller the segments of the skirt... the more fiddly the cleaning is because of drips and drops that always find the seams and follow them. I don't know if they make retrofit covers. The best set-ups I've seen have the skirt AND a removable basin underneath that catches most of the debris and liquids. Some are nightmares of impossible to reach places with plenty of ways for crap to get in them.

As much as I love commercial kitchen equipment because it does the cooking far better than residential, those stovetops are designed to facilitate frequent heavy cleaning and stand up to it. Easy isn't a main part of the design considerations and it shows.

[FCD]

GAWD, you just had to ask!  LOL! 

So, I went back and looked at this product...

Here's one example, BTW

To answer your question; as near as I can tell, there are at least (16) questions asking if you can cook on it (and probably 81 million views of those (16) questions...and yes, I picked '81' million for a reason!).

There is also (1) question which asks..."Why do people ask if you can cook on a mat like this?"  So, I guess there's at least one (1) person out there in the Amazon genetic pool who is worthy of reproduction! 

Anyway, if you're looking for a laugh, you might check it out, but you can find 81 million other products on Amazong with 81 million just as dense reviews. 

Sometimes, when I'm bored and need a laugh, I just go out to Amazoink and read reviews for random shit.  Scissors..."Can I run with these, pointed at my face?"  Knife..."Product sucks because I cut the shit outta' myself with this!  Should be banned!"   Truck Floor Mats..."Product sucks ass!  I got the mats, but the thieving seller didn't include the gawddamned truck!  Total Rip off!"     Dog Collar..."Tried to put it on a stray dog, but it bit me!  Garbage!"  14" Black Gonzo Dildo..."Speedy shipping, BUT wife won't let me back in the house now! Zero stars!"