To just burn the oven now?

[Changebagsandgladrags]

Rented house, element in cooker is blown. It's one of those wide ovens with racks the size of Belgium.

I can't ask the landlord to fix it until I have...erm...cleaned it

As soon as the DCs were in school I covered it in oven cleaner. Racks, oven walls, top the whole shebang. Properly gloved up and everything. I propped the racks up against the worktop and left it all to sit.

But then I got hungry and decided to make toast. With nutella.

As I was eating my toast I noticed a bit of nutella on my wrist. Not nutella, oven gunk. So now tongue actually on fire, desperate for water I skidded over a thin film of cleaner from the racks to the sink. Dunked tongue, turned too quickly to avoid open dishwasher, skidded again. Got foot trapped in a rack. Tried to save myself from falling on open dishwasher, grabbed anything to steady self, unfortunatley this turned out to be the other bastard rack.

So, ended up on the floor under a pile of racks, very bruised arse. Sat there and finished my toast though.

Can I just burn the bastard oven? It doesn't like me.

Yeah, I think that's fair. You tried.

How do you burn and oven though?

This just proves that good comes of cleaning an oven.

You need to set the whole kitchen on fire, I think. Then go it to a cage and eat cake for a while

*cafe ... though cage would work too I guess?

Is it wrong that I just laughed out loud at this? Sorry.

Sounds like a day in my life... if theres something to fall over or slip on I manage it . Forget the toast, get a spoon and go to town on that nutella. Will make you feel better I swear.

side note, I fucking love cleaning ovens (or anything deep cleany type) can I come down to yours, I charge in Nutella

I'd go and make another cup of tea but I'm too scared to go back in the kitchen.

Before you go back in just call out "holster your weapons, I come in peace". Maybe wave a white hanky as you go in just so they know?

Don't burn it, ovens live for heat. You need to beat it to death with a hammer.

Perhaps you should have cleaned it earlier. It is clearly sulking.

You realise there are companies who do this kind of shit for you though...? Although I would have to clean my oven before they arrived it's so embarrassingly dirty.

I know I should have cleaned it earlier. I've been in an oven standoff with DH. I cook low grease foods (no meat). But he cooks hulking portions of greasy animal.

I could get a company to do it, but I'd be well fecked off if the landlord said OK new oven.

Cheat and half clean it. Just do the racks and door and give the bottom a cursory wipe. Buy that oven liner, cover up the worst of it and pray that you get a new oven and never have to clean the old one properly.

I could get a company to do it, but I'd be well fecked off if the landlord said OK new oven.

Ah, but you wouldn't be bruised battered and burnt and unable to enter the kitchen due to the psycho cooker from hell.

Op that's like a comedy sketch . Ouch.

But what's your LL like? I replaced the element in our oven for about 35quid to save getting a new oven completely, it's been perfect since and is completely doable (had never done it before). But if he's not aware, they might just sort a new one.

Why don't you call them first, are they likely to come over super quick?

Racks: 33% silver
Kitchen destruction level: 98%

Landlord is generally helpful. However, a couple of months ago we had a problem with the flue in the boiler. It escalated from cleaning the flue to a full boiler and plumbing replace. Cost the landlord a small fortune.

I'd be inclined to ask him if we should attempt to fix it ourselves if it's only around £35.

YABU
( Tongue in cheek (
If you've done it properly you could've had a week or two in hospital with your meals cooked for you therefore no need for oven

Then sue landlord for accident get thousands and hire personal chef ( eat takeaways )

Wouldn't go down the route of feeling sorry for the LL as such, they have insurance and elements do fail. If they weren't prepared to replace at some point they'd not have one there you'd have to have bought your own.

No harm looking though, I just googled oven elements for xxxx put in your make/model oven, check it looks the same design/shape.

Still give it a good clean though if you replace it, you definitely can't aviod touching the sides lol.

I got mine here www.elementreplacement.co.uk/ in case they have yours.

Arse quite sore now.

Leaving the rest of the bastard oven for bastard meat-eating DH to finish.

I swear, in our next house I'm getting my own oven, just for my food.