The glass in oven doors has been strengthened to make it more resistant to heat and mechanical stress and less likely to shatter under these conditions than ordinary glass.
Stove door glass shattered.
The glass on your oven door is tempered.
Yes this is because most of these expensive ovens and cookers come with door ventilation systems and multiple glasseson the oven door which protects it from damaging easily.
Glass continued to pop and disintegrate after hitting the floor.
Otherwise the glass will crack upon closing the doors when a fire is burning.
It seemed to break for no apparent reason.
Unless ceramic glass came with the doors do not replace it with this material.
Ge warns consumers about inadvertent damage to glass oven doors including the potential for broken or shattered glass in its use and care guide a statement from general electric said.
Damage to the glass can be caused by a number of things including using the door to push in an oven rack or an object striking the glass both examples may cause a weakness and lead to failure over time this of course ignores the thousands of complaints by consumers who report oven doors shattering without any customer intervention.
The glass prior to shattering had no obvious cracks or fissures nor was any blunt force applied to it.
This is essential for ovens and cookers which have to cope with extremes of temperature and daily use.
Interestingly shattered glass oven doors are not common with expensive ovens and cookers.
There are a number of ways a glass oven door can shatter but most of them have to do with tiny cracks that develop from something hitting the glass.
Some of these micro fissures are created when the glass is tempered while others are created when something small bumps against the glass in the oven like a pan diamond ring or metal spoon.
For factory built fireplaces installing ceramic glass in the doors will cause the firebox to overheat resulting in a dangerous house fire situation.
Glass heat treated to withstand greater than normal forces on its surface uhh sure that explains a lot.
Half of it shot out the bottom and all in little pieces described baker.
At 8 45pm the front glass of the oven door shattered into sheets shards and pieces.
The entire thing shattered.
From ovens to shower doors products you use every day are built with tempered glass.
