Our Oven

We have now lived happily in our apartment for 7 months. We really like our apartment and are happy we chose it. The one problem is our oven. When we first moved in we noticed that sometimes when you turned the oven onto bake it wouldn't turn out so you had to jiggle it a little. We didn't think too much of it because it still turned on just fine. Well this problem has grown bigger and bigger in the past 7 months. At first you would just have to twist it a few times, and push on it really hard. Then it started turning off while something was cooking so it always took forever for anything to finish and now we are no longer able to turn the oven on to bake at all. This is very very frustrating. Many things are not supposed to be broiled to cook them.

I know there is a glare but I set the knob on bake and the red light practically laughed at me! Meaning it would not turn on. I would try to have it a little past the word bake and the light would turn on but if I came back in a few minutes and it was cold inside the oven. What a pain!

I finally got around to calling the managers on Monday who are very nice and quick to respond to maintenance issues. (Our dishwasher also broke in December not quite as annoying as the oven and we got a brand new one in the end.) He came and looked at it and said the starter button was out so he would order a new one and if that didn't work he would order a new oven. We don't mean for them to have to buy new things but whoever moves into this apartment after us is going to have a nice set up! One day when we need to buy an oven I am totally going for the flat ones that are super easy to clean and for the ones that have the buttons on the top, not the knobs. I hope that our oven gets fixed soon. Maybe I should request that the managers let us come over and use their oven to cook. Last night we had a Chicken Pot pie and it was in the oven for almost 2 hours! We were so hungry and good luck baking anything!