{"id":22393,"date":"2026-05-12T07:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22393"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:57:39","slug":"daily_4087_-_stove_repaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/05\/12\/daily_4087_-_stove_repaired\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4087 – stove, repaired"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The dual-element cooking zone on my stove has been half broken for a while. The inner ring wouldn’t turn on at all, and the outer one was heating unpredictably. It was slow to warm, but then wouldn’t “listen” to the knob when I turned it down, so pasta water would boil over even when turned to a low setting.<\/p>\n

I’d have to replace the whole oven\/stove combo, I thought – modern appliances aren’t repair-friendly. Did a quick search anyway, and it turned out that at least stoves are very repairable. Electrolux has a fixed-price service, all parts included. Much cheaper and easier than buying a new stove. A friendly repairman turned up, pulled the stove out, replaced a part, and ta-da! Both coils are heating up as they’re supposed to.<\/p>\n

With the stove pulled out from its normal position, the dirt and grime around its usual space became visible. Every little crumb or drop of grease that falls down along the back and sides of the stove just stays there. I haven’t thought about cleaning there since the stove was installed in 2019. It was by far the dirtiest thing I have ever seen in any home where I’ve lived. I guess I should be doing this more often than once every 7 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The dual-element cooking zone on my stove has been half broken for a while. The inner ring wouldn’t turn on at all, and the outer one was heating unpredictably. It was slow to warm, but then wouldn’t “listen” to the knob when I turned it down, so pasta water would boil over even when turned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22395,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22393\/revisions\/22395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}