The Oven Man Cometh
My much delayed oven resurrection was scheduled (I use the term loosely) for today. It looks like "Some time on Saturday; he'll call you half an hour before" translates to a call at 7:36AM and a 15 minute warning. He got to see my dressing gown and slippers.
The good news is the oven wasn't faulty after all. The bad news is that this meant I had to pay $175 for the callout. In hindsight I should have scrubbed a test patch, but I was so carried away with the idea that I should "preserve the scene" for the expert that this did not occur to me.
The other reason I was convinced it was a technical problem was the nature of the residue. It had sparkles in it. It bubbled like plastic. It was dark grey, not carbon black. I don't use nasty chemical cleaners in the oven, and I'd been quite careful to use oven bags and... *bing*.
Oven bags: cheap plastic/metallic things with metal and plastic ties. Commercial cooked chicken bags: metal-lined paper. I wonder if they gradually ablated and built up a fine coating on the inside of the oven, only to spark off at the hottest points when I used the base element at high temperature for the first time? If so, eeeewww. Not using those again. Another expensive lesson learned. I must be very thick :-(
The good news is the oven wasn't faulty after all. The bad news is that this meant I had to pay $175 for the callout. In hindsight I should have scrubbed a test patch, but I was so carried away with the idea that I should "preserve the scene" for the expert that this did not occur to me.
The other reason I was convinced it was a technical problem was the nature of the residue. It had sparkles in it. It bubbled like plastic. It was dark grey, not carbon black. I don't use nasty chemical cleaners in the oven, and I'd been quite careful to use oven bags and... *bing*.
Oven bags: cheap plastic/metallic things with metal and plastic ties. Commercial cooked chicken bags: metal-lined paper. I wonder if they gradually ablated and built up a fine coating on the inside of the oven, only to spark off at the hottest points when I used the base element at high temperature for the first time? If so, eeeewww. Not using those again. Another expensive lesson learned. I must be very thick :-(