{"id":16332,"date":"2026-09-03T13:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16332"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:44:44","slug":"cooking-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16332","title":{"rendered":"Cooking tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday evening the built-in oven started behaving a bit oddly. It switched (unnoticed) from its normal convection setting to grill, and incinerated the fish fingers which it was supposed to be cooking-not-grilling. And it cranked the temperature right up to way above the range of normal grilling. It was as if it was ovening <em>and<\/em> grilling at the same time, and doing so under its own control. It was switched off on the normal oven controls and that worked for slightly less than 0.5 of a second which is when it switched itself back on and resumed ovening and grilling once more. Summoned to deal with the newly-independently-minded tech, I switched it off at the wall isolation switch and watched it not switch off. Slightly scary. So I went to the MCB and isolated the 3kw oven circuit which had no effect at all; the device kept on ovening and grilling. So then I went through all the MCB circuits; 2 switched it off. An RCD circuit and the household 13amp circuit. Marvellous, obviously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it had cooled enough, the oven was released from the built-in cupboard fastenings and withdrawn like some weird kind of latter-day Arthurian Sword In The Stone (oven in the kitchen cupboard?) and the second problem was identified first. Behind the oven was a standard household 13amp socket into which the oven was plugged. I pulled the plug, put the 13amp circuit back into play and while everything booted up around us, a swift decision on the oven&#8217;s fate was taken. Anyway, the oven is now on the drive awaiting the scrap-person&#8217;s attention. The new one will be delivered on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening the built-in oven started behaving a bit oddly. It switched (unnoticed) from its normal convection setting to grill, and incinerated the fish fingers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16337,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16332\/revisions\/16337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}