Built in cooker just gone bang

TadleyBaggie

You can pay for the micro chips with the money not being spent on oven chips...

kerri_gt

Ours also has a safety feature that you have to reset the clock in order for the oven to work after power has been cut.

Does your microwave have a grill feature you could use if it is the element? Or could you ask a neighbour if things get really desperate. Good idea about waffles in the toaster too.

PasturesNew

If the hob is still working, oven chips can be cooked in a frying pan.

Son needs to learn that you can't always have the food you like, the way you like it - and will have to eat things either differently, or not at all and choose something achievable.

When you're on the spectrum you have to spend your life working round problems and issues - set this one as the challenge of the week to solve... "what to eat instead of ..."

Vodkalass75

PasturesNew wrote: »

If the hob is still working, oven chips can be cooked in a frying pan.

Son needs to learn that you can't always have the food you like, the way you like it - and will have to eat things either differently, or not at all and choose something achievable.

When you're on the spectrum you have to spend your life working round problems and issues - set this one as the challenge of the week to solve... "what to eat instead of ..."

If you knew where abouts my son is on the spectrum you would know that doesn't work. He has had an issue with food since he was small, I have learnt over the years that he would go hungry for days, anything that passes his lips that he doesn't like he will throw up. He is underweight as it is we have had dieticians working with us & never got anywhere. His take on food is so complex that the meltdowns & anxieties around food are unbearable. He is 15 so I have spent years on this:(

Lioness_Twinkletoes wrote: »

Reckon she wants the money for vodka:rotfl:

:rotfl::beer::rotfl:

GoldenShadow wrote: »

You can toast potato waffles if you get desperate. Handy tip I learnt in my student days

Thanks for that tip :beer:

TBH I only wanted to see if I could use that as an incentive to get them moving, they are useless as letting agents, still have a back door to the garage that hasn't been fixed for 6 months, smoke arlarms that don't work. The enviromental health have been involved & she even sweet talked them:eek: My tenancy ends in 4 weeks & I can just imagine them stalling because I know the kitchen will be ripped out for a refurb before he sells it. I had reset the clock before I posted on here.

jbainbridge

If the fan on the oven is still working as you say, it does sound like the element has gone. Not a big job to replace and elements cost £10-20.

p00hsticks

If you have the space and can afford £30-40, you could invest in a mini oven as a backup - we have one which we regualrly use to cook small items as it heats up more quickly than the main oven and is more efficient.

Our local LIDL had one this week for (I think) £29.99 - this is the sort of thing I'm talking about
http://www.argos.co.uk/product/2417880

Bogalot

p00hsticks wrote: »

If you have the space and can afford £30-40, you could invest in a mini oven as a backup - we have one which we regualrly use to cook small items as it heats up more quickly than the main oven and is more efficient.

Our local LIDL had one this week for (I think) £29.99 - this is the sort of thing I'm talking about
http://www.argos.co.uk/product/2417880

Plus OP can take it with them as a back up for future issues. Winning idea

(Although I'm going to test the potato waffles in the toaster!)

steeeb

I bought a replacement heating element for like £5 off eBay when this same thing happened to me (I think it was the heating element breaking which tripped the electrics).

Google search how to replace it.

For mine, it involved turning off the electric. Undoing 2 screws keeping the oven in the unit, putting a workbench in front of it, pulling oven out (get someone to help). Undoing 2 screws, pulling off back panel. Undoing another screw, unplugging heating element, plugging new one in, doing screws again.

Turned electric to oven back on to test it worked. It did. Put oven back in unit last few screws.

Took 10-15 minutes, being cautious.

If you've got a local appliance shop that do repairs you'll likely find someone for 50-70 to do it for you.

The fan ended up going 5-6 months later. Again, the part was like £10 off ebay but it was a bigger job to replace as getting the fan off in the first place was a bit of a PITA. Again, I managed it easily though and saved £££s.

Some elements can even be changed by just undoing the internal panel covering it - if so it's a 2 minute job - no need to get the oven out and take the back panel off.

[Deleted User]

With two autistic sons who would rather not eat than eat what they aren't into at the time, I totally sympathise. Remember the problems well.

I have a 10 year old and a 20 year old, both diagnosed. The 20 year old will now eat normally and almost anything although will still suddenly decide something is off the acceptable list.

My younger son is very restricted as to what he will eat.., and will go hungry willingly if its not something on his list.

I still remember the days when older son was 8, and wouldn't eat anything but shop bought sandwiches.., even if I packaged up sandwiches, they wouldn't do. Was on income support (took nearly a year to get DLA) so was my daily nightmare affording them. I lived on toast, literally.

freeisgood

OP those combi micro ovens are brill...it is all I have ever used as much more efficient than a main oven.