Vermieter-Kommentar: Thank you for your comments and suggestions for our vacation rental. As always we welcome your concerns and comments. Our cottage is well-equipped with dishes, mixing bowls, pans and pots for cooking a variety of meals. We do not supply spices or sugar since it is impossible to anticipate what a guest would need/use and many guests prefer to use those food items that they bring. We hope you found the cottage to be in excellent condition upon your arrival. It is our reasonable expectation that the cottage would be left in the same condition upon your departure. We were disappointed to find the condition that the cottage was left in after your stay, and this was only the second time we have been forced to charge a cleaning fee. All four stove drip pans had burned-on food residue from cooking that boiled over, and the interior of the stove top had food residue under the burners. We also found wet pancake batter that had dripped down the front of the stove into the oven. The damage deposit of $25 was kept to compensate for the extra two hours that was spent returning the kitchen to its previous excellent condition. We did call and discuss this with you and thought that this was a reasonable charge. We do leave a container of cleanser and several sponges in the cottage. If there had been a problem, we wished you would have said something so we could address it at the time. Thank you for your comments - we will add a cutting board to the kitchen.