Jo wrote:
The oven is a Diplomat Select 920 and was here when we moved in two and a
half years ago. so we have no idea how old this oven is.
Last year it started emitting a weird chemical smell which is worse at
times, yet not so bad at others. It's quite disturbing as i feel it almost
smells 'toxic' and I don't want the food contaminated.

Any ideas, other than to pay a fortune to call out an engineer who will
probably tell us we need something replaced? Apart from the bulb which has
gone and the awful smell the oven works fine.


its either burning fat - which is pretty similar to tear gas in general
effects - or a burning insulation, in which case prepare for a bit of a
bang when it finally turns to conductive carbon...