More than 400 ovens with glass doors have exploded causing dozens of injuries in the US, Consumer Reports warns

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Since we’re talking about ovens, I’d like to remind you all to pull it away from the wall and tighten the connections on the terminal once in a while. Because of the amount of electricity going through the connections, they can go through enough expansion/contraction cycles they loosen, heat up, and catch fire. And cleaning up fire extinguisher residue from everything in your kitchen sucks (if you don’t have an extinguisher, go buy yourself and a friend one as soon as you can). https://youtube.com/shorts/4TixCZv08Us for a quick look at what I mean.

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Years ago I was working as a tech support contractor and I was almost done with a project for a fire alarm company but couldn’t finish that day. I told the owner of the company I’d wrap up the next day as I couldn’t stay since I promised my sister I would help her move. He asked if it was her first apartment and I said yes. He said wait here, went into his office and gave me a brand new fire extinguisher. He said to give it to my sister as a house warming present.

4 months later my sister wanted to host Thanksgiving dinner. She cooked the turkey and all the fixings, only thing left to make was green bean casserole. Step one was to boil water for the green beans… While boiling water she caught the oven on fire. The apartment didn’t come with a fire extinguisher but luckily she had the one I got that day when helping her move. Dinner was destroyed but the apartment was saved, no damage besides cleaning and everyone was safe. Likely it was grease and oil on the stove from cooking all the other food which caught fire.

And yes I still make fun of her for almost burning down her apartment by boiling water…

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How about clearly identifying the brand/model in the article? I looked for details in the first few pages of the article but found nothing.

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Found this on the Consumer Reports article:

Most of the ranges cited in the complaints were made by Frigidaire, but ranges from other brands were also reported. According to our research, 263 of the complaints cited Frigidaire ranges. Other complaints referenced GE (63 incidents), Whirlpool (35), LG (15), and Samsung (10).

In many cases, consumers explicitly stated that the glass shattered when the appliance had been turned off, sometimes for several days.

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I don’t know why, but I read this as a new thing bad when glas doors on ovens are common for generations, at this point.

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They started using cheap monkey glass and not the proper gorilla glass. Or they allow the glassto be structural somehow.

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That language sounds racist. Also why use the brand name of gorilla glas? That’s phone glass.

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Racist?

Only in your head. Seems you have an obsession with race (since apes and monkeys are completely different species)

Also, it’s not just “phone glass":

The alkali-aluminosilicate sheet glass is primarily used as cover glass for portable electronic devices, including smartphones, smartwatches, portable media players, portable computer displays, and television screens

Yea, it’s probably mostly used for “phone glass”, but that’s like saying any borosilicate glass is “chemistry lab glass”.

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I wonder if the culprit is a cleaning product. Some kind of contamination that chemically weakens glass? Or an abrasive that introduces tiny scratches?

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More likely metal expansion and pressure on the glass. Same reason why car sunroofs are mysteriously blowing out.

The models all use a large pane of tempered glass, not the typical porthole designs of old ovens.

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$5,000 and $20 to affected parties and we’ll move on.

What? That’s not enough? But how can you be so mean to the struggling corporation?

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