XPost: alt.home.repair, rec.food.baking   
   From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/28/2023 8:20 PM, Bradley wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   The self cleaning works fine, up to the time you use "oven cleaner" in   
   it. After that your luck may vary. Look it up for your oven.   
      
      
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> 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?   
      
   Few plastics will survive oven temps, especially self cleaning ones.   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   That could be caused by using an oven cleaner in a self cleaning oven.   
   Or, it could be that the self cleaning cycle will burn it away. Self   
   clean ovens work really good until you ruin the surface.   
      
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
      
   Maybe look for a bulb listed as OK for self cleaning ovens, if such exists.   
      
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