Smeg Oven Glass Door Exploded

They re supposed to keep hot air in while letting us.

Smeg oven glass door exploded. 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. This smeg oven had been in use a grand total of 3 months and was installed only a few months prior to that. Oven doors are not supposed to explode. After several warranty service calls the oven glass and the interior of the door was replaced.

Smeg oven sfa561x first time use and glass exploded published 3 years ago brand new smeg oven installed in new apartment on first time the oven door glass exploded at 200c on me and shattered throughout the kitchen as i opened the oven door. It came with a 5 year warranty. Sometimes it happened when the oven was on or running a pyrolytic self cleaning cycle. Smeg glass oven door explosion kel was cooking dinner and on opening the oven door it exploded.

For betty chan of vancouver bc it was the outer glass in the door of. The bakers are appalled that no one seems concerned especially when other consumers report the same glass door explosions. We had hot glass everywhere. Glass continued to pop and disintegrate after hitting the floor.

Top oven inside glass exploded the first time it was self cleaned several weeks ago. There was no particular rhyme or reason as to when or how oven doors exploded in the cases we heard of from members. It could be either the inner or outer glass panels that shattered. I ve not had a full year s use out of the oven but when i attempted to use the pyroclictic cleaning function for the second time yesterday the inner glass door completely shattered.

Unfortunately there s no way to cook dessert. Shattered ovens ovens nightmares tempered glass sears kenmore let s start by pointing out the obvious. 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 main reasons for the glass to shatter is thermal shock perhaps a cool cloth used to clean a hot door or a sharp knock which happened sometime ago and been forgotten or stress from the door or the oven being twisted.

Why are smeg allowed to continue without any recall for this problem. The glass prior to shattering had no obvious cracks or fissures nor was any blunt force applied to it. I purchased my smeg oven costing 499 99 from currys on the 31 august 2015. The shattered glass damaged the finish on the door.