Smashed Glass Oven Door

The glass on your oven door is tempered.

Smashed glass oven door.

Door glass shattering is not very common all tempered glass manufactured for appliances or other purposes can shatter if subjected to certain conditions. Glass oven doors can explode without warning sending glass fragments flying across your kitchen or into your dinner. Tempered glass by definition according to the national glass association nga a strong break resistant type of safety glass that if broken shatters into small granular pieces. A window in the oven door is a convenient way to check on whatever you might be baking.

We investigated the problem of exploding oven doors after receiving a consistent trickle of reports on the issue from which. Tempered glass is designed to break in to small fragments therefore it will not leave sharp points and long shards of dangerous 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. Glass heat treated to withstand greater than normal forces on its surface uhh sure that explains a lot.

Before you attempt to fix your oven be sure to sweep up and hoover so you don t risk an injury although we are pretty sure you ve thought of that.