Oh my! Anyone else have a gap between their cooker and worktop that food gravitates towards? I'm at the stage now where I can't bare pulling my cooker out again to remove a pea.. Especially since I just did it yesterday! Can't bare doing it again so soon lol. Anyone have any aesthetically pleasing or creative solutions to stop this? I'm open to anything right now!
Quote: Steve Allan @ 14th April 2016, 3:06 PM BSTOh my! Anyone else have a gap between their cooker and worktop that food gravitates towards? I'm at the stage now where I can't bare pulling my cooker out again to remove a pea.. Especially since I just did it yesterday! Can't bare doing it again so soon lol. Anyone have any aesthetically pleasing or creative solutions to stop this? I'm open to anything right now!
First of all, don't bare yourself as you are likely to burn your bits, and as for the gap - Intumescent Mastic.
Quote: Steve Allan @ 14th April 2016, 3:06 PM BSTOh my! Anyone else have a gap between their cooker and worktop that food gravitates towards? I'm at the stage now where I can't bare pulling my cooker out again to remove a pea.. Especially since I just did it yesterday! Can't bare doing it again so soon lol. Anyone have any aesthetically pleasing or creative solutions to stop this? I'm open to anything right now!
Sellotape the peas individually onto your Matchbox Superfast cars. Send them around the yellow loop while ensuring that the flat bit of track is positioned in a saucepan of boiling water. The sellotape will naturally separate at the point of entry. Dish out all the peas with a strainer and remove the vehicles once the water has cooled.
Yes. Or folded tea towels the same colour as worktop plugged in the gap. It works but if you're messy like me when cooking you have to bung them in the wash quite a lot.
I had this problem in my last place and getting food out with a long sharp stick doesn't clean the area.
So I fashioned a 'chute' by cutting a piece of plastic tubing in half lengthways, wedged it in there at a downwards angle and had instant crazy golf for peas, and just whipped out to clean if anything oogie got down there.
This is really weird because a friend of mine has just bought a cooker which fits almost perfectly but was told that there needs to be a gap and it is too close. The next size down leaves too much space. She is still negotiating with various fitters etc to get to the bottom of what the real rules and regulations are.
Your cooker gap conundrum is indeed a tricky one, it must be hard to live with such a void in your life. Have you considered fitting motion sensors so that every time pea goes down the back it kick off the London underground "mind the gap" recording ? Or getting a burly workman to fill your gap, just needs a bit of Formica over the top ? Or possibly you could move house, you would lose your conversation piece, but many houses have well fitted cookers these days. I hope this is helpful. 
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/voice-london-undergrounds-mind-gap-7760632
Haha!! You crack me up!! 
Ended up going with these:
Hopefully problem solved!
It's telling that it's your cooker and not the family cooker...
Quote: Paul Wimsett @ 15th April 2016, 3:54 PM BSTIt's telling that it's your cooker and not the family cooker...
Fair point 
Quote: Chappers @ 15th April 2016, 12:01 AM BSTThis is really weird because a friend of mine has just bought a cooker which fits almost perfectly but was told that there needs to be a gap and it is too close. The next size down leaves too much space. She is still negotiating with various fitters etc to get to the bottom of what the real rules and regulations are.
You get plenty of cookers which are built into worktops though, so this is strange. Maybe there's some type of ventilation requirement with the one she's purchased, but I don't think it's a standard regulation.
I agree, I think some cookers require ventilation space. Good call!