On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:45:14 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>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?

Nrver had it happen or heard of it.... but I suppose it could happen.

>Makes me want to buy some cheap thing with no glass in the door but they don't seem to make
>them that way anymore.

I haven't looked but I'm sure some companies must make oven doors
without a glass window. My GE profile oven door has a glass window,
however in the 20 years I have it I've not once used the glass window
to look inside the oven... it's really just something extra to clean
because even though it has an auto clean function it cleans the oven
but not the glass window.... I still need to use a razor and Windex to
clean that glass... it's a PIA job and it doesn't stay clean very
long. The oven works great but were I to do it again I'd look for one
without a window in the door.... I still need to open the door to
check what's cooking inside.... with a meat thermommeter stuck into a
roast I still need to open the door to read the thermometer. Maybe my
vision has deteriorated. I probably should sget one of those wireless
thermometers that sends the temperature to an external gauge. I still
wouldn't trust it without actually examining the roast and taking its
temperature with my trusty Sponge Bob anal thermometer. LOL