Smutzproofing

I swear, from this point forward, to never ever CONSIDER buying a kitchen gadget that is harder to clean than it is to throw away.

Today, I had to (again) clean my thermostat/timer. I use this every day and of course I have to touch it every few minutes. It should not require special tools to clean it. I should not need to have to use a bamboo skewer to get to all the little cracks and crevices where germs might hide, much less go digging in purely non-functional plastic gullies.

Frankly, I want it to be a solid lump of dish-washer safe acrylic. I want to at least be able to drench it in a squirt of germkiller and wipe it down in less time than it takes to write this.

That was not the case.