Had an incident with he who longer lives here (Just me and the cats now)
where the oven door shattered. The claim is he slipped on oil on the floor,
his knee hit the door and it shattered. I did not buy this story as there
was no oil on the floor. I had Angela double check this. Yes, there had been
oil on the floor two days prior and it took me a long time to clean it up.
So that part, I don't buy. Then there was the fact that other things in the
kitchen were damaged and he claimed those damages were related to the
shattered oven door, but they couldn't possibly be. I am not going to get
into that!

I finally have my kitchen back after his hideous foray into cooking. But...
No oven. I have the low end, GE, self cleaning one and it's about 15 years
old. So I think it would be better for me to replace it rather than repair
the door. Still shopping around.

That being said, in researching shattered oven doors, it's a fairly common
thing and the incidents of it happening are on the rise! The first I heard
of this was last year at about this time when my friend got a new, high end
oven. She was looking forward to cooking the holiday meal, and the day
before the holiday, the glass shattered. The oven wasn't on and thankfully
no one was near it. My friend makes everything from scratch so they had a
very disappointing holiday meal as she was unable to bake anything.
Thankfully she had already made her cookies.

Just spoke to another friend who said there was a segment on the news about
shattered oven doors being on the rise. But the reason is unclear. My
research said it might be linked to the high heat of self clean and perhaps
we should not use that feature. I did the self clean a day or two before the
incident and that makes me feel slightly guilty.

Anyone here ever have this happen? Or have you heard of it? Makes me want to
buy some cheap thing with no glass in the door but they don't seem to make
them that way any more. I did have one many years ago and mostly I made
cookies, muffins, cakes and biscuits. My nose always told me when they were
done. It never fails me for things like that.