My New Old Oven

Stove

Notice anything different about this range? No, it’s the same color. No, it hasn’t lost weight. No, it hasn’t quit smoking. The thing that’s different about this stove is that **the freaking oven works**.

I was carefully examining the pilot frame and the thermocouple, considering the pressure and possibly debris in the line when my super stopped by to give me a new AC bracket- thank you, Jose- and took a peek with me. He turned on the gas, gently nodded his head a few times, then took up one of my lesser knives and proceeded to whack the ever-loving shit out of all the components in the oven. Unsurprisingly, it lit right up. Jose’s diagnosis? “Stuck valve, since you never use the fucking thing.”

I haven’t calibrated yet, but, man, am I looking forward to it.