my oven - Page 2

limey · 02-01-2009, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by BigV

repeat fire extinguisher customer here.

Jeebus!

Afraid of fire? What are you afraid of? Insulting it? Hurting it? GO GET A FIRE EXTINGUISHER. Then... light a fire in the parking lot. Set a cheap trash can of papers on fire. Let it burn for a minute. Then spend your fire extinguisher and put it out. Practice on that tiny fire in the parking lot. Burn your $15-20 or whatever it costs and see, no, do learn, experience your ability to control a small fire.

Then go get another one or three and put them in conspicuous places in your house.

Excellent advice, BigV!

morethanpretty · 02-01-2009, 08:55 AM

Afraid of fire or leaving your door unlocked, or the light on after you leave for work? Do as my sis-in-law and take a picture on your phone, each morning, of everything you turn off, unplug, lock, ect. So when you flip out later in the day, "OMG did I turn off the gas heater!???" Pull out your phone and take a look.
When my sis-in-law showed me her "method" the other night, and I nearly died laughing. I thought I would never meet someone more paranoid than my mother...I was wrong. I love that girl though, she is very amusing.

Anyway, my bit of thread drift is done.

wolf · 02-01-2009, 08:58 AM

How does she establish that the pictures are today's pictures, not yesterdays?

Sundae · 02-01-2009, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by wolf

How does she establish that the pictures are today's pictures, not yesterdays?

She takes the pictures showing her panties, so she can check one against the other later.

Seriously, Cloud. My Mum is terrified of fire, but that at least means we're well prepared, Two smoke alarms (one on each floor) and one fire extinguisher. All of us know our escape route from upstairs (although I question whether I would be able to get out of the same windowframe we practised on when I was 16! The key is always kept in the back door overnight, to make it easier to get out in the dark/ smoke.

It's a bit OCD, but as Glatt says, the planning would be worth all the money in the world if it saved a life.

Mad Professor · 02-01-2009, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

She takes the pictures showing her panties, so she can check one against the other later..

sounds like my kind of girl

Is the cooker free-standing so you could tilt it up and see if there's anything underneath?

monster · 02-01-2009, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman

FWIW, Many ovens with a cooktop utilize the back left burner as a vent.

ours is back right

classicman · 02-01-2009, 03:04 PM

then its as unique as you are monster

TheMercenary · 02-01-2009, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV

repeat fire extinguisher customer here.

Jeebus!

Afraid of fire? What are you afraid of? Insulting it? Hurting it? GO GET A FIRE EXTINGUISHER. Then... light a fire in the parking lot. Set a cheap trash can of papers on fire. Let it burn for a minute. Then spend your fire extinguisher and put it out. Practice on that tiny fire in the parking lot. Burn your $15-20 or whatever it costs and see, no, do learn, experience your ability to control a small fire.

Then go get another one or three and put them in conspicuous places in your house.

Yea, we have three fire exstinguishers in our house. One under the kitchen sink, a larger one in the garage, a small one mounted on the wall in the utility room. In the last two houses we have lived in a fire exstinguisher has been used to put out small stove fires twice. A cheap investment that has payed off in our house.

Shawnee123 · 02-01-2009, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

ours is back right

Well yeah...you're British.

capnhowdy · 02-01-2009, 06:32 PM

I had the mouse problem a few years back. After several futile attempts, ( including taking the damn thing completely apart, cleaning, reassembling) and several cycles off self clean, I still had a faint smell of hot mouse musk/piss/droppings/scorched flesh/yuk, etc. I finally gave up and bought a new stove.

binky · 02-01-2009, 07:54 PM

My husband once had to clean dead possum out of the back of our clothes dryer, yuck! The smell affected our clothes for about a week before it went away. On the topic of ovens, ours is gas, and the oven fills with gas before the pilot lights it, scary.

Aliantha · 02-01-2009, 08:00 PM

My old oven used to always get fat splashes on the element which meant it almost always smoked and smelled bad when it was first turned on. Thank goodness we have a bigger oven now and that's not such an issue.

The only advice I'd have is to simply leave it turned on high until the smoke and smell stops and ventilate the house while you do so.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-02-2009, 01:10 AM

The left rear burner is probably the oven vent. There may be residue from the cleaning product your hired help used on the oven. Mine(GE) is specific about what cleaning products to use and not use. Not likely to burst into flames but I'd open the windows and try not to breath the smoke.

02-02-2009, 06:33 PM

The mice probably built all sorts of lovely nests in your oven's insulation... I have a friend who recently had this problem with rats. Turns out you can open the whole thing up from the top and replace the insulation... otherwise, you may never be able to get rid of the stink.

glatt · 02-03-2009, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Tiki

Turns out you can open the whole thing up from the top and replace the insulation

This actually varies by oven. Some are poorly designed and hard to service. My current Maytag, for example. Not one of the panels can simply be removed. You have to remove all sorts of bolted on crap before you can get to the panels.

02-01-2009, 08:55 AM	#17
morethanpretty Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you. Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: little town (but not the littlest) in texas Posts: 2,957	Afraid of fire or leaving your door unlocked, or the light on after you leave for work? Do as my sis-in-law and take a picture on your phone, each morning, of everything you turn off, unplug, lock, ect. So when you flip out later in the day, "OMG did I turn off the gas heater!???" Pull out your phone and take a look. When my sis-in-law showed me her "method" the other night, and I nearly died laughing. I thought I would never meet someone more paranoid than my mother...I was wrong. I love that girl though, she is very amusing. Anyway, my bit of thread drift is done. __________________ Addicts may suck dick for coke, but love came up with the idea to put a dick in there to begin with. -Jack O'Brien

02-01-2009, 08:58 AM	#18
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	How does she establish that the pictures are today's pictures, not yesterdays? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-01-2009, 03:04 PM	#22
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	then its as unique as you are monster __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

02-01-2009, 06:32 PM	#25
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	I had the mouse problem a few years back. After several futile attempts, ( including taking the damn thing completely apart, cleaning, reassembling) and several cycles off self clean, I still had a faint smell of hot mouse musk/piss/droppings/scorched flesh/yuk, etc. I finally gave up and bought a new stove. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

02-01-2009, 07:54 PM	#26
binky all hollowed out Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ridgecrest, CA Posts: 982	My husband once had to clean dead possum out of the back of our clothes dryer, yuck! The smell affected our clothes for about a week before it went away. On the topic of ovens, ours is gas, and the oven fills with gas before the pilot lights it, scary. __________________ The meanest Mom EVER!!!!

02-01-2009, 08:00 PM	#27
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	My old oven used to always get fat splashes on the element which meant it almost always smoked and smelled bad when it was first turned on. Thank goodness we have a bigger oven now and that's not such an issue. The only advice I'd have is to simply leave it turned on high until the smoke and smell stops and ventilate the house while you do so. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-02-2009, 01:10 AM	#28
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The left rear burner is probably the oven vent. There may be residue from the cleaning product your hired help used on the oven. Mine(GE) is specific about what cleaning products to use and not use. Not likely to burst into flames but I'd open the windows and try not to breath the smoke. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-02-2009, 06:33 PM	#29
Tiki Guest Posts: n/a	The mice probably built all sorts of lovely nests in your oven's insulation... I have a friend who recently had this problem with rats. Turns out you can open the whole thing up from the top and replace the insulation... otherwise, you may never be able to get rid of the stink.

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