XPost: alt.home.repair, rec.food.baking   
   From: bradley@nospam.com   
      
   On 9/29/2023 4:08 AM, micky wrote:   
   > I think appliance bulbs are designed primarily for ovens.   Anything   
   > that can handle an oven can surely handle a refrigerator and even a   
   > freezer.   So I think "normal" is all there is.   
      
   I just noticed this oven has a "self cleaning" feature, which, I think,   
   just ramps up the temperature to as hot as it can get - which seems to me   
   to be brutal on these "normal" appliance 30W to 40W bulbs.   
      
   I think it's odd they're limiting teh heat in the wires to the 30W or 40W   
   when the wires must be getting heated up to over five hundred degrees from   
   the oven. Why not a 100W bulb for that matter? No big deal. I'm sure 30W or   
   40W is enough to see inside the oven (once I cleaned the glass that is).   
      
   I used straight ammonia - which seems to work reasonably well on the glass   
   plate in the door of the oven. I wonder if the self-cleaning actually   
   works.   
      
   Anyone use the self cleaning feature?   
   Does it work?   
      
   >>   
   >>Given Sylvania didn't last - is there a better brand   
   >   
   > HOw long had it been in there?   
      
   If I admit that, you'll think I haven't been maintaining the home.   
   It has been broken for so long that I don't even know how long it has been   
   in there - but it has to be years.   
      
   The reason I cleaned it is a woman had all four limbs amputated recently in   
   the news because she ate uncooked tilapia fish so I wanted to put a   
   thermometer in the oven which hasn't arrived yet so I could SEE what the   
   oven temperature really is.   
      
   Then I also bought a thermometer that goes into the fish or poultry or meat   
   after it's pulled out of the oven - and I tried to get a water proof one   
   but couldn't find any on Amazon.   
      
   It's a safety thing.   
   1. The oven thermometer was to check the temperature in the oven   
   2. The cleaning of the door glass was to see that oven thermometer   
   3. Then I realized the oven light was off so nothing could be seen   
   4. And then when the meat comes out - I can stab it with the other one   
      
   I was surprised that a thermometer can be inside an oven but not under   
   water. Seems to me it should be able to take both heat and water.   
      
   What I wanted was a thermometer that will last forever without batteries.   
      
   >>or source other than Amazon, Home Depot or Walmart?   
   >   
   > On further thought, digging deep into my memory, I thinnnnk that the   
   > difference with an appliance bulb is that it's covered in plastic, so   
   > when it breaks you wont' get glass all over the place, since stoves and   
   > fridges are harder to clean.  Anyone remember that?   
      
   This one doesn't 'seem' to have a plastic shell.   
   But there is a big glass protective shell that you screw in around it.   
   I have that big glass protective shell dunked in ammonia right now.   
   It went from black to almost clear in a few hours of the ammonia.   
      
   Anyone know what's the best chemical to clean an oven?   
   It has black baked on crud everywhere.   
      
   >   
   > And that it comes in 30w or some size that regular bulbs don't.   And   
   > that it's smaller to fit in the space provided.   
      
   The bulb is smaller. So I'll have to buy an "appliance" bulb.   
   Which is OK. I just don't want it to melt like this one did in between   
   where the metal is glued onto the glass from the heat.   
      
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