Posted by Sunhillow
on Mon 17 Aug 09, 6:36 PM to Sunhillow's blog.
Saturday morning.... picture of domestic bliss cooking breakfast... sausages... bacon... mushrooms... etc..
I went to the fridge to take out a plate of mushrooms that I'd sliced and caught the edge of the open grill/top oven door with the (bone china) plate...
BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!
First thought... I've broken the plate. No, the plate was still in my hand in tact with the mushrooms on it....
The glass on the oven door had exploded showering the whole kitchen it tiny pieces of glass... it was EVERYWHERE! 
It was a new in-built oven that we'd had fitted in December.
It took us nearly two hours to clean all the bits up and I'm still finding them now.
Managed to salvage breakfast though... just renamed it lunch!
Anyone else had a similar experience? Surely it shouldn't explode like that!!??
| 17 Aug 09, 6:38 PM Jezzebelle UK, 10 yrs  |
No it shouldn't, must have had a weakness in it. You should be able to get it replaced by the company. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jezzebelle/ | |
| 17 Aug 09, 6:43 PM Sunhillow 7 yrs |
Yes have contacted Currys; they've ordered new part & are coming out next week. I just think if it's possible for the door/glass to do that there should be a warning in the cooker handbook, which there isn't. It's a Bosch btw.
~ If you must pick the lesser of two evils; choose the one you've never tried before. ~ | |
| 17 Aug 09, 6:51 PM proccie UK(HP), 6 yrs  |
Almost all cooker/fridges/washing machines use generic parts from common manufacturers. I have seen an oven door do this twice and I am not impressed. Both times I was able to replace the door cheaply from scrap cookers. Poorly made toughened glass can spontaneously explode in any situation. See here: http://www.glassonweb.com/articles/article/330/ Zen S&M: The sound of one hand smacking. Edited 17 Aug 09, 7:02 PM by proccie | |
| 17 Aug 09, 6:53 PM astrid_the_spy UK(G), 8 yrs |
This has actually happened to 2 of my friends on seperate occassions. Both had relatively new ovens and it happened unexpectedly with no trauma to the oven door. Apparently it's not uncommon!! | |
| 17 Aug 09, 7:03 PM Sunhillow 7 yrs |
Hmmmm yes, wish I'd known that, I was in mild shock for a few hours! And feel very lucky not to have been injured.
~ If you must pick the lesser of two evils; choose the one you've never tried before. ~ | |
| 17 Aug 09, 7:05 PM Sunhillow 7 yrs |
I'm quite scared of the cooker now; which is a shame considering how much I love cooking! I do feel manufacturers should warn about this though.
~ If you must pick the lesser of two evils; choose the one you've never tried before. ~ | |
| 17 Aug 09, 8:31 PM TheProf UK(BL), 12 yrs |
There is a known trick amongst car thieves of hitting a toughened glass window with a piece of spark plug ceramic, causing the glass to shatter. I wonder if your bone china plate could have had the same effect. The car thieves in the USA call the little bits of ceramic 'Ninja Rocks'. If you're bored you can find lots of YouTube videos of people trying this trick. I think you just discovered a more genteel version. Mike ('The Prof') | |
| 17 Aug 09, 10:21 PM proccie UK(HP), 6 yrs |
Spark plug ceramic is very hard and quite heave/dense. The edge of a china plate could have the same effect or a chipped plate could scratch the glass causing a delayed effect when the oven got hot. Zen S&M: The sound of one hand smacking. |
