Several months ago, like a year ago, early one morning my husband heard a noise in the kitchen. Entering, he discovered the beeping coming from the stove.....like it beeps when the oven temperature has reached its degree of hotness. Turning knobs to no avail to shut it off, finally, he turned the stove off at the fusebox.
We called a repairman who came that afternoon. After checking, he said it was a small sensor and he would order and replace it in the next couple of days.....small detail.....
He called back the next day and gave us the bad news that the sensor was no longer in stock. Now the stove was not many years old and given the fact that we had lived away almost seven years it certainly had not been over used.....the only option would be to purchase a new stove to replace one the that worked fine except for the small sensor. As long as the oven was on, even the lowest setting, it didn't beep. When it was turned on at the fuse box.... .next turn oven to lowest setting as quickly as possible........
We priced stoves, looking for the particular drop in style needed. I simply could not see buying a new stove at about $1,000.00 when everything worked perfectly fine except the irritating beeper.
We decided to keep it shut off at the fuse box, turning it on only when the stove was being used. Now remember this has gone on for a year. Inconvenient yes, but frugal foremost.
Two days ago, the oven was on as I was making spaghetti sauce for a cancer Relay for Life fund raiser. Not thinking, I turned the oven off. After a few minutes, I realized the oven wasn't beeping..... IT HASN'T BEEPED SINCE! EVEN WITHOUT THE OVEN BEING ON! Do stoves heal themselves? I am ecstatic that we didn't go out and buy a new stove............Thank you Lord for a none beeping stove...........
