yeah, my family and i were eating tea and my oven door decided to blow up, was rather epic. probably the highlight of my day seeing shards of my oven door fly accross my kitchen,

i have a photo i might upload when i can be bothered.

i dont know how or why it would just explode like it did, anyone got any ideas?

were you cooking a particularly hot curry???:)

Ours did the same a few years ago - apparently the glass can stand the heat from the over but not from the grill. I think one of the kids turned the grill on and forgot it. Big bang - glass everywhere. We then found the instruction sheet which said use the grill with the door open. RTFM.

yeah its rather odd, yeah was only the glass on the front not the actual door but still strange cause the oven or grill wasnt on, but the oven had been used about 10 minutes prior the incident

IDk, your cooking was really bad? OR it was a gas leak or the glass other side got overheated.bec cuz u had sumtin touchin the glass. OMG read the manual. And sue who ever u bought it from. =D

May have had something to do with whatever you did to create tea that you had to eat.

haha dont think ive ever had exploding potatoes before

Eggs - in the shell. Over or microwave. Kaboom! You clean the oven.

May have had something to do with whatever you did to create tea that you had to eat.

Ha! I was thinking the same thing! Maybe "eating" the tea was a typo?

Not my sort of tea, chap. Besides, scones and madeira cake don't go bang like that.

no 'eating' tea isnt a typo, maybe its just an aussie thing to call your dinner, tea. some other australian get back to me on that, cause i know all my friends say that as well

Take a look at this article HERE (http://www.kerrysgarden.us/2005/08/13/exploding-ovens/).

Exploding oven doors etc are far more common than one would think. You should contact the oven manufacturer asap, as this could`ve been potentially very dangerous.

Regards Howard :)

Something like this happened to my relatives with their over. At 3:00 AM in the morning my aunt heard something crackling in the kitchen and when she stepped into the room the oven door shattered. The oven wasn't on and the only explanation was that the glass had had some sort of micro imperfection that had caused catastrophic failure.

Exploding oven doors etc are far more common than one would think

A lot more common than i ever though haha

I made my old oven door explode when we got a new one, I made a firework ( I know how to make them ;) ) and just planted alot of them inside the oven in a middle of a dirt field, got behind a wall and blew it up :haha:

Got any videos, TimeParadoX?

I'll record a new one Kitty when this oven breaks :haha:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2872/explosionli8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

There, I showed what the explosion looked like :D

Ours did the same a few years ago - apparently the glass can stand the heat from the over but not from the grill. I think one of the kids turned the grill on and forgot it. Big bang - glass everywhere. We then found the instruction sheet which said use the grill with the door open. RTFM.
Sounds like thermal expansion caused some pressure in the glass, hot on top and cold on bottom part of the window.

yeah, my family and i were eating tea and my oven door decided to blow up, was rather epic. probably the highlight of my day seeing shards of my oven door fly accross my kitchen,
i dont know how or why it would just explode like it did, anyone got any ideas?

This is the sort of thing that normally only happens in meth labs.

maybe your cooking is terrible.

This is the sort of thing that normally only happens in meth labs.

oh yeah, forgot to mention our kitchen doubles as our meth lab

Incorrigible that one ! LOL!

we also deal out of there, just incase you wanted to know. pm me for my address

no 'eating' tea isnt a typo, maybe its just an aussie thing to call your dinner, tea. some other australian get back to me on that, cause i know all my friends say that as well

I dont know about that. I and just about everyone I know calls it dinner. People who call it tea are mostly from other countries such as new zealand and a couple of other places. May just be a Tasmanian thing cuz we all know you guys are a little strange ;)

May just be a Tasmanian thing cuz we all know you guys are a little strange
haha sure sure

Where is the pic?

Where is the pic?

On my phone still (i lent my bluetooth dongle to a friend and he lent it to his hyper underaged gf and i havent seen it since) but Skitzo_Zac the great man that he is, is giving me a card reader tomorrow so it will be up soon

This business of what it tea and dinner and so on needs clearing up, so pay attention you colonial chappies and read, note and inwardly digest the following.
Breakfast: to be taken between 09:00 and 10:30. Should include kippers, poached haddock, kedgeree, toast and marmalade. Anything before 09:00 is unheard of so does not have a name.
Elevenses: anything taken at Eleven o'clock.
Lunch: Taken around noon and can last for several hours.
Fourses: At 16:00 (four o'clock) Usually tea (as in a cup of tea) and cucumber sandwiches, cakes and biscuits.
Tea: At 17:00. More substantial fourses. Can include a lightly boiled egg.
Drinks: Usually at 18:00 when the sun is over the yardarm.
Dinner: From 19:00 onwards; full blown multi course meal.
Supper: After 23:00 - light snack before bed such as bread and cheese.

Breakfast: to be taken between 09:00 and 10:30. Should include kippers, poached haddock, kedgeree, toast and marmalade. Anything before 09:00 is unheard of so does not have a name.
Elevenses: anything taken at Eleven o'clock.
Lunch: Taken around noon and can last for several hours.
Fourses: At 16:00 (four o'clock) Usually tea (as in a cup of tea) and cucumber sandwiches, cakes and biscuits.
Tea: At 17:00. More substantial fourses. Can include a lightly boiled egg.
Drinks: Usually at 18:00 when the sun is over the yardarm.
Dinner: From 19:00 onwards; full blown multi course meal.
Supper: After 23:00 - light snack before bed such as bread and cheese.


Does anyone actually eat that amount of stuff everyday???????

gotta crank the breakfast before 9 (school days only though)
maybe thats why people i know call it tea cause we have it around 5 to 6ish

Not today - but remember that when they did stuff themselves silly they had no central heating and it was much colder. And they died young.

i think i'm cursed haha,

At work i was just about to put the leftover pies in a bag for the guy who comes and collects them and the pie oven door exploded, i'm hell lucky it was safety glass otherwise it would have cut the **** out of me.

rather odd i think, hmm, curse of exploding glass... :D

I worked in the armoured/ laminated glass industry for around 5 years, making the stuff. (roughly x300 8ft by 6 ft sheets per day. ) Around once or twice a piece of glass that had been standing around on its own for several months, doing nothing would instantly shatter as soon as you layed a finger on it, even 10 mm thickness! I think it must be a tiny flaw in the glass, or the force was strong in me on those days :)

or the force was strong in me on those days :)

haha, weak glass i'd say ;)