You know, our stove/oven doesn't really work, either. It doesn't not work, but it's incredibly temperamental.
Last night I decided to use some of that leftover ham to make jambalaya - hambalaya! I started out with onions, peppers and celery, I put them in the big pot to sauté until the onions got translucent, except - they didn't really get translucent. They let off some liquid and then, just, kind of, stopped. I was puzzled, and it took me a long time to realize that the burner had quit working!
So, I switched to another burner. Not the end of the world, just a minor irritation. Just now, I put some bread to toast under the broiler, and came back a few minutes later to find that the broiler hadn't turned on; so I banged on the panel a couple of times and it came to life. It works, but...
The question is, are these kinds of things worth bothering about? If it were my own oven and I was trying to save money, I'd just make do with it. If it's the landlady's oven, should that change things?
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I think it should.
ReplyDeleteI also think that if any of that is gas powered, it should probably really really get fixed.
Ah, true! But it's just electric. Just grumpy old electric parts.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like it's from the 1970s, and a couple of the burner control dials have been replaced with oven dials, which is kind of funny and kind of annoying. The oven control has two dials, one for the function and one for the temperature. The words on the function dial are almost completely worn away - you can barely read where it says "BROIL," and the rest is pretty much guesswork.
On the other hand, it makes an excellent steady high heat, so that bread and pizza come out unusually crispy. It'd be too bad to lose that part of it!
hey! what would you tell a client?
ReplyDeleteI think you are paying for this to work...
but extra crispy is nice..