On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 07:02:17 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Monday, December 21, 2020 at 9:19:08 AM UTC-5, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>> On 12/20/2020 2:17 PM, Graham wrote:
>> > On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 13:17:37 -0600, Sqwertz wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 09:59:47 -0700, Graham wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I have a Bosch convection oven that must be one of the worst things they
>> >>> have ever made. I use the convection feature for all my cooking and last
>> >>> night turned it on to pre-heat for the lousy pizza I'd made.
>> >>> Sparks and flames!!! The convection element burned out. What a time to fail
>> >>> with next week's xmas baking looming.
>> >>> Luckily it has a conventional baking function with the element buried
>> >>> beneath the floor of the oven so I had a "stand-by. I have never used this
>> >>> so I will have to discover the oven's other foibles.
>> >>> Now I'm faced with the dilemma of either paying for an expensive repair or
>> >>> biting the bullet and replacing the whole shebang.
>> >>> As much as I'd like a Miele or other up-market replacement, it isn't worth
>> >>> it. When I eventually downsize to a smaller house or casket, this house
>> >>> will be jacked up and carted away to some rural location and a huge,
>> >>> triple-garaged mansion built in its place.
>> >>
>> >> There's actually an element for the convection fan? Most ovens, the
>> >> elements or burners are separate from the fan - one top and one
>> >> bottom. Then the fan just swirls the heat around from those. Will
>> >> the fan still run with only the bottom element on? Are you sure
>> >> that element never turns on when you're just using convection?
>> >>
>> >> -sw
>> >
>> > True convection ovens, of which this is one have heating elements in the
>> > fan housing and blast out hot air. Cheaper convection ovens just circulate
>> > the air that is heated by the elements in the oven chamber itself.
>> >
>> In the old days, a twelve year old boy would be able to rewire your
>> stove so the fan could be on when the non-convection elements were on.
>> Not sure if today's twelve year old boys can do anything.
>
>Popeye? Is that you?
>
>Cindy Hamilton

It's been so long since I was twelve years old I don't remember.