Why Do Oven Doors Shatter and How to Prevent It
Willie Mae Truesdale was startled by a loud explosion coming from her kitchen. Rushing to investigate, she was shocked to find her glass oven door shattered into pieces, scattered across the floor. “It was unbelievable—you had to see it to believe it,” she recalled.
“It was like, ‘What in the world just happened?’ Glass everywhere, all over the floor.” To make matters worse, her oven wasn’t even on at the time. And the terrifying reality: Truesdale isn’t the only homeowner to experience an oven explosion like this.
Cheryl, a suburban mom, had a similar shock during the COVID-19 quarantine. While attempting to bake brownies, she noticed they came out soggy in the middle. Though her oven was only three months old, she realized its temperature was off by about 25 degrees. After quarantine, she called a professional to repair the appliance. But before that, she decided to run a self-cleaning cycle on the oven. As the cycle neared its end, a loud explosion rang out, and the inner glass door shattered, falling into the oven.
