This is how our kitchen looks every Friday morning - I get all my ingredients and supplies out and ready to go on Thursday night. My laptop holds all my recipes, easily searchable in a Word document.
This morning, all was going along as usual. Cookies were cooling on the racks, brownies were all done, and the first 2 large pies were baking away. After finishing up the first batch of mini pies, I opened the oven to get those in. A huge smoke cloud billowed out, and I saw a BLACKENED pie! The smoke alarms started screeching, and I had to go run and fan it with a towel to make it be quiet.The oven seemed to have malfunctioned, and instead of the heating element turning off when it reached 350, it had stayed on. It got hotter and hotter, hence the burnt pie. I thought I was going to have a slim amount of items for sale tomorrow, as it seemed to be still messing up even after turning the whole oven off and trying it again.
I decided to leave the not done yet pies in the oven to finish baking with the residual heat. After they were done, I tried turning the oven on again. It seemed to be working! Being very cautious and keeping a close eye on everything, I was able to get almost all my planned sweets baked. Whew!
Remember the last time this happened? Two and a half years isn't a very long time for a repaired stove to last! Hmmmm. Well, at least the family was happy to scrape the burnt layer off and help eat up the Chocolatetown Pie!
~Sarah
You might want to consider getting a gas stove. In one house where we lived there were no gas lines so I had to have electric and had to have two repairs in eight years. The only repair I have ever had to have during the years I've had gas stoves was a replacement door hinge.
Posted by: Becka | Friday, June 21, 2013 at 07:59 PM
So glad it didn't turn into anything more serious, Sarah. If I had a nickle for every time I've waved something at a fire alarm to make it be quiet! God bless market day for you and Hannah!
Posted by: Kathy | Friday, June 21, 2013 at 09:02 PM
What a nuisance for you Sarah! I hope your Saturday market goes extra well for you this weekend.
Just post any leftovers of burnt pie to Down Under. :)
Posted by: Rose | Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 02:40 AM
Your stove problems reminds me of what we just went thru on our washing machine.it wasn't the washer that was broken but the circuit breaker was going bad.
Hope you still have good sales today.
Posted by: Tammy C | Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 08:37 AM
lol...ahh the adventures of cooking for market day! :) What a blessing to get all your goodies baked for today. Hope it goes well. You are right, two years isn't very long, hope it can be fixed before next baking day. :)
Posted by: Chris | Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 09:31 AM
Oh, bummer! Glad you found a work around! You're amazing the way you go at it every week. Keep up the great work!
Posted by: Stephanie in MI | Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 10:15 AM
You're inspiring me to bake today! Tell your mom thanks for the comment - and I'm so glad your PEI lupins are blooming! Hope you're having a great day at the market!
Posted by: Kathie | Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 11:13 AM
What a day...hope today is fantastic and you come home with a pocket of money and not goodies;)
Posted by: Laura | Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 11:17 AM
Yikes! Glad you got it to work properly so you could finish your baking! :-)
Posted by: Dorothy Horton | Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 03:43 PM
Oh no, what a nightmare. I love the relaxation and stress relief that baking brings. A malfunctioning oven is not what I would call relaxing.
Glad your temperamental oven started behaving itself again.
Posted by: Nic | Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 03:05 AM