Tuesday, December 2, 2014

The Kosher cooking lesson...

It's Tuesday, time for a funny story.

As previously promised, we would share the good, the bad and the embarrassing as it pertains to our ventures in home ownership.

Welp, this story falls into the latter category:)

To give you a little background, our oven broke last year.  It was a slow demise actually.  One button, such as the 5 would stop working.  Then a few days later the 7 would go out.  Once the 3 kicked the can- we knew it was time for action. 

Luckily, we were still covered under our home warranty, so all we had to pay was $75 to have the Sears repair guy replace the electrical panel.

This is not the fanciest of ovens- it's an Amana.  But it is a convection oven which is nice (or so people say, I've never actually "convected" anything:)) and it has worked without incident since we had it fixed.

That is, until the daylight savings time switch.  We woke up on Saturday morning (after a glorious extra hour of sleeping) and started updating all the clocks in the house.  Ry did the microwave and then moved onto the oven...

He pressed the "clock" button and nothing happened.  So, naturally, he pressed it again.  This time holding it a few seconds.  And just like that, the oven froze up.  Strange numbers and letters appeared.    5Ag?  Weird.  What is wrong with this thing?  We're just trying to set the clock?  So he started pressing other buttons to see if anything would work.  Nothing.  

So, that night Bill came over for dinner and we were telling him how earlier in the day our oven just "stopped working".  So he advised us to flip the breaker, wait a few seconds and turn it back on.  Still, none of the buttons on the panel would work.  We all got out the owners manual and couldn't find any of those letters and numbers in the book.

We were mad.  I mean, we just replaced this thing and now it's broken again?  We started thinking the worst- we'd have to replace the whole oven this time- it was going to cost a fortune.  I mean doesn't this thing know we have to replace the roof over the breezeway (roof post coming this Spring)??  As Stephanie Tanner would say, how rude.

After our rage subsided, we decided to be reasonable people and call in the calvary (the home warranty company) again.  Sure enough, they sent the same Sears repair guy that fixed it the last time.  He walks in, I start down the road of- looks like it's finally given up the ghost...kicked the can...whoa is us.

After 3 seconds of walking into the kitchen he says....huh.  Looks like someone put it in Sabbath mode.

What, Sabbath mode??  Our oven observes the Shabbat?  And then it all clicked. SAb, Sabbath mode...not 5Ag. A wave of embarrassment and ridiculousness washed over me.  Oh.  Right, mode so you don't accidentally press buttons during the Sabbath, SABBATH mode.  We knew that.

I told him we looked in the manual and it didn't say anything about "Sabbath mode".  To which he responds, "Yeah, this type of stuff typically isn't in the manual.  Looks like you just have to hold the clock button down for 3 more seconds and it releases Sabbath mode."

Oh for the love....

We just paid this guy $75 to come over and hold the clock button down for 3 seconds.

Note to self....  Google.  Google, before Cavalry.


1 comment:

  1. Ha! Great story. Damn that weird shit but thank goodness for home warranties. We call ours at least once a month! The $75 usually seems like a fair trade...except in this situation of course!

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