Wed 29 Oct 2008
Testament to the incredible wife of 20 years of mine is that fact that I NEVER heard a word of complaint from her about our broken oven over the last two months of its demise. Granted, the “Food:EatOut” category in Quicken got a bit more of a workout in the mean time, but today we finally resolved the situation.
After pulling the oven out, cleaning up the nastiness that grew under it over the years, and locating what we thought was the most likely broken part we called an appliance repair service. With the price of what we would likely pay to have our old oven fixed we set out to see what “new” cost. Within an hour we had found a NEW unit within $25 of the repair cost. No brainer.
You won’t be seeing this oven in use anywhere on the Food Network, but it will cook Hertzler food just fine.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Hooray!
I remember being extremely happy to get out of cleaning the inside of our old oven when the new one arrived.
Enjoy!
–Beth S
February 10th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Update months later: While this oven cooks Hertzler food just fine, it dumps an enormous amount of heat into the kitchen. So our eating out budget may be doing better, but our “Utilities:electricity” category will be feeling the heat later in the summer.