Stove Door Glass Shattered
The entire thing shattered.
Stove door glass shattered. It seemed to break for no apparent reason. Glass oven door shuttering is most common in the low range oven types. The glass prior to shattering had no obvious cracks or fissures nor was any blunt force applied to it. Half of it shot out the bottom and all in little pieces described baker.
This is essential for ovens and cookers which have to cope with extremes of temperature and daily use. Unless ceramic glass came with the doors do not replace it with this material. The glass on your oven door is tempered. Glass heat treated to withstand greater than normal forces on its surface uhh sure that explains a lot.
From ovens to shower doors products you use every day are built with tempered glass. A good rule of thumb. Otherwise the glass will crack upon closing the doors when a fire is burning. Interestingly shattered glass oven doors are not common with expensive ovens and cookers.
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. At 8 45pm the front glass of the oven door shattered into sheets shards and pieces. Yes this is because most of these expensive ovens and cookers come with door ventilation systems and multiple glasseson the oven door which protects it from damaging easily. 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.
Ge warns consumers about inadvertent damage to glass oven doors including the potential for broken or shattered glass in its use and care guide a statement from general electric said. The glass in oven doors has been strengthened to make it more resistant to heat and mechanical stress and less likely to shatter under these conditions than ordinary glass. Glass continued to pop and disintegrate after hitting the floor.