Ge warns consumers about inadvertent damage to glass oven doors including the potential for broken or shattered glass in its use and care guide a statement from general electric said.
Stove door glass shattered.
This is essential for ovens and cookers which have to cope with extremes of temperature and daily use.
Glass heat treated to withstand greater than normal forces on its surface uhh sure that explains a lot.
The glass on your oven door is tempered.
A good rule of thumb.
Damage to the glass can be caused by a number of things including using the door to push in an oven rack or an object striking the glass both examples may cause a weakness and lead to failure over time this of course ignores the thousands of complaints by consumers who report oven doors shattering without any customer intervention.
From ovens to shower doors products you use every day are built with tempered glass.
At 8 45pm the front glass of the oven door shattered into sheets shards and pieces.
Otherwise the glass will crack upon closing the doors when a fire is burning.
Glass oven door shuttering is most common in the low range oven types.
The glass in oven doors has been strengthened to make it more resistant to heat and mechanical stress and less likely to shatter under these conditions than ordinary glass.
Unless ceramic glass came with the doors do not replace it with this material.
Yes this is because most of these expensive ovens and cookers come with door ventilation systems and multiple glasseson the oven door which protects it from damaging easily.
Interestingly shattered glass oven doors are not common with expensive ovens and cookers.
It seemed to break for no apparent reason.
There are a number of ways a glass oven door can shatter but most of them have to do with tiny cracks that develop from something hitting the glass.
The entire thing shattered.
Some of these micro fissures are created when the glass is tempered while others are created when something small bumps against the glass in the oven like a pan diamond ring or metal spoon.
Glass continued to pop and disintegrate after hitting the floor.
Half of it shot out the bottom and all in little pieces described baker.