URGENT: Safe to use fan oven after several weeks of inactivity?

[WDWU1802]

Help me out, MNers!

(By "inactivity", I mean the oven, not me!)

Yes of course. What do you think happens when people are on a long holiday - buy a new oven?

Why on earth wouldn't it be safe? Provided your electrics are safe and you haven't left mouldering fat/food in the oven it will be fine.

What? Why on earth wouldn't it be??

Some people only use their oven once or twice a year.

I honestly thought everyone did this. It's the reason I had to stop going away. The back garden is full of ovens.

@AutumnCrow

@WDWU1802 It's perfectly fine!

@AutumnCrow you definitely won Mumsnet today.

What on earth do you think could be an issue with that? Ovens don’t go off like old milk.

Fuck. I only use the bottom oven for Xmas dinner. Do I need a new cooker?

Ahahaha, thanks you lot, feeling suitably idiotic but thoroughly reassured. Supper, here I come!

Heh @WDWU1802 I'm still wondering what on earth made you think it wouldn't be okay!

And more importantly, what will you be making??

Enjoy your dinner

UPDATE:
Right, SO. Two of you jinxed me. Someone made a comment about ovens going off like old milk, and someone else said something about leaving old food/fat in there. Somehow I managed to combine the two by forgetting I'd stored a carton of UHT milk right at the bottom of the oven when there was nowhere else for it to go. So now not only are my spicy bean burgers ruined, so's my oven. REALLY not my day (.../week/month/year/lifetime).

How the fuck do I clean this and make it usable again? sob

...and am I going to die from the fumes in the meantime?

How could you miss a carton of milk in the oven, did you not look before turning it on?

@BamBamBilla Thanks, I'll try that

@BamBamBilla

i don't look in my oven befire I turn it on. Why would you? <unless you're the kind of loon that stores UHT milk in it!!>

Oh that sounds pretty shit @WDWU1802 ! for you

Surely uht milk could go anywhere, it definitely didn't have to go in the oven.

Hahahahahaaaaaaaa.

I like how this thread has a condensed amount of WTF per few posts. We now have melted invisible milk and ruined spicy bean burgers.

ONWARD! MORE OF THIS NONSENSE IMMEDIATELY!

@WDWU1802 I'm sorry about your burgers. And your milk.

I replace mine every month just to be on the safe side.

Plenty of Pink Stuff paste and scrub, then have the oven on with nothing in it to “cook off” the rest of the fumes with the window open

What? I think my painkillers are too strong. The first post was bonkers, and the updates are even more so! I can understand turning the oven on to preheat, but how do you not notice the smell or the milk in the oven when you opened it up to put the burgers in?

I replace mine everytime I change my sheets. So every 3 months.

Your oven isn't ruined. Mr Muscle oven cleaner will get it clean. I used to use it a lot in the last when I had to get ovens sparkling .