On Jun 10, 4:24*pm, aemeijers wrote:
On 6/10/2011 4:39 PM, Ron wrote:





On Jun 9, 4:48 pm, "Robert *wrote:
*wrote in message news:ec32b3b9-828a-4118-8a22-
After I found a flashlight I looked into the oven and found some
craacked material on the bottom of the oven that looked ceramic, but
what really surprised me was that I found a small steel knife lying
across the arms of the burner, maybe shorting the terminals. I don't
know where the knife came from-- it had no wood or plastic handle--
just bare steel; the shank had three holes with rivets dangling in
each hole. It's the strangest thing I have ever seen.

My guess is that's not a steel knife - it just looks like one. *It was
probably a knife-shaped support bracket underneath the ceramic material that
burned off. *Take a picture of the item and post it.

An unknown knife getting into you oven is odd enough - but not having any
remnants of a handle pushes the odds of it being a knife into the "highly
unlikely" range. *It's actually a common mistake in human, machine and even
dog intelligence. *There is a tendency to almost always try to define
objects in terms of something we've seen before. *We expect the expected and
sometimes force the unexpected into a past category when it's actually
something completely new.

Examine the 'knife' more closely - try to find a diagram of the unit on the
net.

I was hoping you were right as that would make a lot more sense. But
unfortunately, you seem to be dead wrong: examining the blade closely
shows the words "Good Cook," a manufacturing company that makes
kitchen supplies.

That makes no sense at all. I don't now what happened to knife's
handle, I don't know where the damn thing came from or how it could
possibly get down on the lower burner element and in the space of time
between the last time I cooked with the oven and a day or so later
when the oven isn't working. A mystery. And I hate mysteries.

Ron

Your oven have a self-cleaning cycle? A wood-handled knife could easily
burn off a handle over several cleanings, and only shorted out the works
when the last bit of wood vaporized. Some types of plastic could as
well, but most of those would stink like mad.

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No... I made meatloaf a couple of days before and there was nothing
but grease at the bottom of the stove; that was the only thing prone
to burning. The oven is an old pice of junk that doesn't have self-
cleaning, And unfortunately, it also doesn't have two working heating
elements...

Ron