So...This Is Why We Went Without An Oven For A Year And A Half

 Yesterday I posted a photo of home-baked cookies for my Pic Of The Day. They weren't ordinary cookies--we waited eighteen months for them. It generated more than a couple of comments on social media and most of those comments asked one question...

Why did you go without an oven for a year and a half?

Good question.

Here's the answer.

Thanksgiving Day, 2020. We had been in our house for just over a month. We decided to cook Thanksgiving dinner in our new house. We were excited. We got everything ready for the big meal, including a big turkey. My wife prepared everything, then shoved the big bird into the oven and we were good to go.

Except, the oven decided not to work. It fired up to the desired temperature, but when it came to stay at the desired temperature, it would not re-fire. It was our first gas oven and we had no idea what was wrong. 

No problem--it's under warranty. We called the appliance people and they sent out a repairman.

Great, we thought. We used the oven sparingly the next couple of times and when we were cooking a frozen pizza, the same thing happened. So, we called the appliance people and they once again sent out the repairman. After they "fixed" it, they even tried it out to make sure it worked. This process repeated itself about five times.

The problem was, it would work when they were there and even a few times after, but it always ended up doing the same thing...it would not re-fire. Of course, it took a few times for us to figure out it wasn't fixed and that could be a few weeks or a few months.

Last fall, we realized it was getting close to the end of our warranty, so we made one last call and the appliance people said they would order us a new oven. That was in September.

Then, we waited, and waited, and waited. Earlier this week a van pulled up with our shiny new oven. They hooked it up, tested it, and it worked. We've used it several times since and it's still working.

The reason we didn't get the issue fixed or get a replacement was due to a couple of reasons. First, we kept waiting for our new oven, or that they would fix the old one. Also, we live close to my mother-in-law and when we absolutely needed to use an oven, we used her's (like to finish cooking the 2020 Thanksgiving turkey...). 

We hope the ordeal is over. Now, we'll be one of those couples who remind their kids, and possibly grandkids one day, that we had to go without an oven for a long time.

So, now you know.