Yesterday evening, Jill and I had a very pleasant on-line meeting with a group of friends. We discussed TV, movies, books, and life in general (no politics). About 7:15, we said our goodbyes and went to the kitchen to start dinner. We were broiling some hot dogs in our electric range.
About 60 seconds in, I heard a loud buzzing from the stove and opened the oven door, to see the broiler heating element shooting sparks from what appeared to be a break in it. I turned off the broiler and the sparks continued, so I went to the basement and tripped the breaker for the power to the stove. That ended it...for the moment.
We decided to get sandwiches from Wawa for dinner instead.
Some background: A few years back, we had a similar short occur in the main oven heating element. We had it replaced. In 2019, the hinge on the oven door was damaged, such that it will simply fall all the way open when released. We have been meaning to replace the entire appliance...and then the pandemic and lockdown occurred.
An odd thing about our stove: When it was installed (before we bought the house), it was "hard-wired" into the electrical system, as opposed to being plugged in. I don't know if that was standard some 25 years ago, but it means when we replace the stove, we need to have an electrician disconnect it and probably install a socket for the plug on any new stove. Oh, and it has to be an electric...there's no gas line to our house.
We'll probably be doing a lot of crock-pot and grill meals for the next few weeks.
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