[GreenKeys] [External] Tip on loops

[Cory Heisterkamp]

Sounds like a good excuse to pick up an older GE 'P7' oven. The early ones lacked glass in the door for this very reason, later ones had a metal shutter you'd close before cleaning. My P7 dates to around 1970 and lacks a window, but that's also because the entire oven cavity doubles as a microwave with a very industrial-looking magnetron and power supply in the kick panel area. Like a model 28, it's completely overbuilt. 

Someone mentioned LED bulbs working at sub-zero temps and that's not entirely true. Quite a few have cheap switcher supplies that fail to trigger as the value of the caps shift in low temps. For those in the midwest venturing out on those -10F days, you may have seen this behavior in parking lot lights. Our neighbors have gone through several sets to get stable ones. They either refuse to start, or will strobe continuously several times per second. -C


On Oct 7, 2019, at 4:36 PM, Jones, Douglas W wrote:

> On Oct 7, 2019, at 4:18 PM, Ralph Irish wrote:
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>> The "Clean" mode has a timer on it.  It will not allow the door to be opened for about 30 minutes (or more?) after the cleaning/burnoff cycle has ended.  I guess this is to insure that one will not burn themself by reaching inside too soon.
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> There was an article in the NY Times food section several years ago about cooking enthusiasts who disabled the door interlocks on their self-cleaning ovens so that they could use those high temperatures for cooking.  Many good pizza recipes, for example, call for temperatures of 600 to 800 degrees F with cooking times on the order of 2 minutes.  The thinner the crust and the sparser the toppings, the hotter you want your oven.
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> The article went on to say that some of the oven hackers they'd interviewed reported that opening the door when your oven is that hot sometimes cracks the inside layer of glass in the window because of the thermal shock.  If you're a serious cook, you put up with the cracked glass in order to achieve perfection in your cooking.  Of course, disabling the interlock does void your warrantee, and you might want something better than an oven mitt.  Long-handled tools sound like a very sound idea at these temperatures.
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> 		Doug Jones
> 		jones at cs.uiowa.edu