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    I'm used to a gas oven, and in my new place I have a kind of old electric. Now it might be a little off by a few degrees, but the oven gets hot. Very hot. Not, like, lukewarm.
    However. It does not seem to heat food. We made mannicotti put it in an oven that was hot for 45 minutes. We went back to the oven, it was still hot, but the food was cold. Not warm, not lukewarm. Cold. Well, maybe cool. We've had a similar problem with other foods.

    Now, this, to me, seems to defy all physics. But before concluding that our oven is haunted and calling our landlord to explain THAT, I thought I'd try here. Does anyone have any idea how this can happen? How can an oven be hot and not heat what is inside it - oh, and did I forget to mention that the pan was hot? It was just the food that was not? What the fuck?
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    Was the food frozen to begin with?

    Otherwise I don't know. I'd buy an oven thermometer so you can calibrate it accordingly though.

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    I HATE electric stoves/ovens. They do a poor job I prefer gas cooker's also.

    Anyway I'm sorry that I can't be of any help jenny but I agree that is very very strange.


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    Default Re: I have a completely mysterious problem

    Robert the Fucking Doll has taken over your oven?

    That is weird...

    I do know that when certain foods are put in a big bowl, and they are very cold--then it is put in the microwave, the bowl can get hot and the food still be cold in the middle.

    PS. In case you missed it, Robert the Fucking Doll used to haunt the house next door to me, along with 'the artist's wife' or whatever.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hardkandee
    Was the food frozen to begin with?

    Otherwise I don't know. I'd buy an oven thermometer so you can calibrate it accordingly though.
    Yes If it was frozen that would make sense.


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    Yeah, electrics do suck. I've got a shitty electric at my apartment, a massive electric/convection at work and a small gas at my mother's.

    I like to cook at my mother's.

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    That is so weird! It must turn itself off and on?
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    It sounds like the element is heating, but the temp is lower than it's supposed to be. Call the landlord and tell him you need a new stove, the next step is it not working at all.

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    I concur on getting an oven thermometer. It's a great thing to have in general, as many ovens (both gas and electric, though I prefer gas too) that seem to be right can be WAAAAAY off. Wreaks havoc on baking in particular.

    But I'm not sure that'll totally address your problem, Jenny, if you say it's getting HOT and yet food is turning out unaffected . . . Maybe a thermometer and an exorcist?

    This is an utterly geeky thing to share, but I remember a story that Tori Amos told about going to Trent Reznor's recording studio - which just happened to be in the house where the Manson Family murders took place - to have him do the guest vocal on "Past the Mission". The apocryphal tale from that meeting is that Tori tried to cook him a chicken in the house's oven: same story. Oven was flaming hot, yet even after cooking it for hours, it was still completely RAW. She was convinced that it was the spirits in the house.
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    I shall examine the calibration idea; I suspect that our landlord will be reluctant to replace if ti si still getting hot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser
    Robert the Fucking Doll has taken over your oven?

    That is weird...

    I do know that when certain foods are put in a big bowl, and they are very cold--then it is put in the microwave, the bowl can get hot and the food still be cold in the middle.

    PS. In case you missed it, Robert the Fucking Doll used to haunt the house next door to me, along with 'the artist's wife' or whatever.
    OK ..I dont know about the oven....but Robert the Doll gives ,e nightmares.....creepiest doll EVER
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    I have a similar problem. I have a gas oven, and it seems to get hot..but food takes forever to cook. Like, if it says bake at 350 for 1/2 hour, I bake it at 425 for an hour. My turkey is supposed to take 3 hours to cook. Im allowing 5..I hope it doesn't dry out....

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    Default Re: I have a completely mysterious problem

    Check the dials carefully. Sounds like you have the broiler on, not the oven itself.

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    Default Re: I have a completely mysterious problem

    oo oo...i got this one (used to work for an appliance company)

    definantly a thermometer to see how far bad the temp differnce is
    and it sounds like an element is out...there are two..one on top and one on bottom..the oven will still heat if either is working but not enough to make a difference ( the top one sounds like the one that works since the oven gets hot..its closer to the metal of the oven) also get the gasket checked to make sure its not leaking out the heat.

    of couse this is assuing you set everything correctly

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    ^^
    It's old. There's only one dial for the oven. It's hard to screw that up.
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    Default Re: I have a completely mysterious problem

    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser
    Robert the Fucking Doll has taken over your oven?

    That is weird...

    I do know that when certain foods are put in a big bowl, and they are very cold--then it is put in the microwave, the bowl can get hot and the food still be cold in the middle.

    PS. In case you missed it, Robert the Fucking Doll used to haunt the house next door to me, along with 'the artist's wife' or whatever.

    off topic,

    i saw the first part of your post and thought....

    djoser is turning into a key wester already!

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