Do your oven shelves roll out easily?
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Anonymous
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I am sitting here nursing yet another burn from trying to reach into a lower oven rack. My oven is at least 12 years old, as it was here when I moved to this house. The oven shelves or racks are very hard to pull out. When I watch the GBBS their ovens always have racks that slide out easily, which would seem to make getting things in and out much easier (and safer). Is that a feature of most ovens now? That alone might push me over the line to getting a new one (the crazy inconsistent temp problem I mostly solve with a good thermometer).
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Anonymous
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Lubricate the sides of the rack with graphite powder.
After I run the cleaning cycle, the graphite is burned off and needs TO BE replaced. |
Anonymous
| My GE oven's instructions say to rub vegetable oil (i.e. soybean oil) on the side rails of the racks. That works for me and lasts until the next self-clean. |
Anonymous
| Mine do, and the oven is definitely quite old as it came with the house. I always wear elbow length silicon gloves when I using it though. |
Anonymous
| Yes, I think mine are on ball bearings because they seem to glide, you are not really pulling and you don't get any screech noises. |
Anonymous
| Yes mine glide, they are full extension on ball bearing (wolf electric oven). It’s great for heavy baking dishes. |
Anonymous
| We have one gliding shelf and two standard in our oven (and it’s about 5 years old). But why are you burning yourself? Get longer mitts! |
Anonymous
I don't know if OP has the same problem as I do, but I'm short, and small, and I always burn myself on the inside of my arms, because I have to stick half my arm in there to reach whatever I'm taking out. I have oven gloves and mitts, and those help a little, but none of them are long enough (there are long ones, but they tend to not come in small sizes) to cover the areas where I burn myself. I usually wear long sleeves, as that helps a little. |
Anonymous
| Mine were...till I realized they were in backwards!!! |
Anonymous
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Google (or Amazon), silicone oven guards to prevent burns. Life changing, and mine were just a few bucks at Home Goods, where I went, "where have you been all my life," and bought them on the spot.
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