Since buying this place, we’ve had to replace the refrigerator because we couldn’t actually open the door–because the POs were…well….idiots. We’ve replaced the dishwasher because the one they installed when they remodeled the kitchen only had one working hinge, so it required a particular sort of “wiggle,” and eventually all that wiggling caused the other hinge to give out.
1. In January 2018, we hit the trifecta and the microwave died. Our oven was actually a microwave/oven combo and the oven was completely unable to maintain a uniform temperature, which made baking anything incredibly frustrating.
2. The inept engineers at GE, though, thought having two separate control panels (one for the oven and one for the microwave) was a great design aesthetic, even if that meant we had TWO digital clocks.
3. Agent Smith and I did a ton–and I mean a ton–of research and wrote down all our options on the whiteboard, eventually deciding on a Samsung.
4. Then it was off down to the valley to purchase one and wait a few days for it to be delivered and the old one removed.
5. And we were treated to another fine example of the previous owners’ electrical genius. We really can’t make stuff like this up.
After a bit of fiddling and an upgraded circuit breaker, the new oven and microwave were installed and ready for use. While the first thing cooked in the microwave was, of course, some popcorn, I spent more time slicing apples to make apple betty, then a batch of snickerdoodles, and then some very tasty banana bread.
Unfortunately all is not sweetness and light with the new oven. It runs a variant of Linux and is very stupid in its attempts to be “smart.” While it can connect to a wireless network and use NTP (Network Time Protocol) to set the clock, occasionally it suffers a kernel panic, reboots and loses its settings, forcing us to go back in and re-enable NTP. We only notice this when the clock has drifted off wildly from reality. I have yet to contact Samsung, as in the grand scheme of things, it’s annoying, but the oven does keep constant temperatures and the microwave works. Sometime soon I will experiment with the steam options for baking.