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My goodness, thank God you didn’t get hurt! I haven’t used the self clean feature on my oven since I worried it could damage the convection components. Now I will definitely be avoiding that feature!
Yikes, happy to hear that you weren't injured. Same thing happened to me with a glass refrigerator shelf. Brand new fridge. I took out a shelf to clean up a spill. Set it on the counter and it exploded. Glass flew through the whole house (darn open floor plan). I was finding tiny pieces of glass in odd places for months.
Holy cow! Thats scary!! Thanks for sharing. Glad all is well!!
Was it very loud when it exploded?
Goodness, how scary!!!
I'm glad you're ok!
All my ovens had the self clean function. My DH insists, he finds it practical.
I do not, since I loathe the smell ( burnt gunk, blech), the inconvenience it takes rather long (wouldn't set up that kind of thing when sleeping or out if the house and you have to take out all iron rails arc anyways. So when I've half disassembled the oven , I can just use the cleaning spray, let sit, then wipe and it's not much more hassle and way faster...
ETA: did you leave all the racks and the side racks inside?
All models I ever had required one take those out completely before starting the self clean cycle for "safety reasons" it says to never leave them in. I wonder if that might have caused the problem?
Wow, I didn't know this could happen!
I have never used the self clean function on my oven.
When it needs cleaning I use Easy-Off oven cleaner.
Yikes, happy to hear that you weren't injured. Same thing happened to me with a glass refrigerator shelf. Brand new fridge. I took out a shelf to clean up a spill. Set it on the counter and it exploded. Glass flew through the whole house (darn open floor plan). I was finding tiny pieces of glass in odd places for months.
Has anything similar happened to you before? I put it on the self clean cycle, and during the cool down phase the inner glass panel of the “top” double oven exploded and pieces of glass flew out of the sides and bottom....
I couldn’t stop it mid-cycle either so so had to turn the breaker off in order to stop the cycle and for the oven door to unlock. Took me forever to sweep, vacuum and clean up both ovens because pieces of glass ended up in the bottom oven too for some odd reason.
So much for my sourdough project that I was finally going to embark on!
Also, current opinion re new versus old tempered glass; people are collecting old Pyrex glass products and avoiding new as they are more prone to shattering.
I've always been scared to use the self cleaning cycle on my ovens... And I'm not gonna start now !
That is so super scary!
The scariest thing I've ever had happen was I had a back windshield bust open while driving on the freeway. It could have been a rock that hit it just right but it sounded like a bomb went off inside my car. Took me months to drive again after that. I thankfully did not wreck my car! I just very calmly pulled over, got out the car and damn near passed out!
OMG! Glad you kept your wits about you, I would have needed an ambulance after that.
I still don't know how I didn't manage to not pee my pants. I swear that car was possessed (multiple weird things happened over the course of me owning it)
Also, current opinion re new versus old tempered glass; people are collecting old Pyrex glass products and avoiding new as they are more prone to shattering.
My mother-in-law’s oven bowed out the bottom during self clean About 6 mos. ago. As it was under warranty they contacted Samsung and they sent someone out, but Samsung never contacted them back. My FIL called repeatedly, was on hold for hours, spoke to countless reps, was told their complaint would be “sped up“ a “supervisor would contact them” etc., and it was never made right. They gave up and just bought an LG. The aggravation wasn’t worth it to them. Still makes me mad!
Your stove wasn’t a Samsung was it? There’s a reason their stoves are cheaper with more bells and whistles...because they’re disposable.
Sorry with the rant. Mea culpa.