Smeg Oven Glass Door Exploded

Glass continued to pop and disintegrate after hitting the floor.

Smeg oven glass door exploded.

Smeg oven sfa561x first time use and glass exploded published 3 years ago brand new smeg oven installed in new apartment on first time the oven door glass exploded at 200c on me and shattered throughout the kitchen as i opened the oven door. The shattered glass damaged the finish on the door. At 8 45pm the front glass of the oven door shattered into sheets shards and pieces. Sometimes it happened when the oven was on or running a pyrolytic self cleaning cycle.

Why are smeg allowed to continue without any recall for this problem. Unfortunately there s no way to cook dessert. I ve not had a full year s use out of the oven but when i attempted to use the pyroclictic cleaning function for the second time yesterday the inner glass door completely shattered. Top oven inside glass exploded the first time it was self cleaned several weeks ago.

The glass prior to shattering had no obvious cracks or fissures nor was any blunt force applied to it. For betty chan of vancouver bc it was the outer glass in the door of. The bakers are appalled that no one seems concerned especially when other consumers report the same glass door explosions. Other times the oven was cool and not in use.

They re supposed to keep hot air in while letting us. The main reasons for the glass to shatter is thermal shock perhaps a cool cloth used to clean a hot door or a sharp knock which happened sometime ago and been forgotten or stress from the door or the oven being twisted. It seemed to break for no apparent reason. It could be either the inner or outer glass panels that shattered.

I purchased my smeg oven costing 499 99 from currys on the 31 august 2015. Smeg glass oven door explosion kel was cooking dinner and on opening the oven door it exploded. Shattered ovens ovens nightmares tempered glass sears kenmore let s start by pointing out the obvious. This smeg oven had been in use a grand total of 3 months and was installed only a few months prior to that.

There are a number of ways a glass oven door can shatter but most of them have to do with tiny cracks that develop from something hitting the glass. We had hot glass everywhere. After several warranty service calls the oven glass and the interior of the door was replaced. Some of these micro fissures are created when the glass is tempered while others are created when something small bumps against the glass in the oven like a pan diamond ring or metal spoon.