Siri was cooking soup for dinner this afternoon. (We've been alternating who cooks dinner each night, and it has been WONDERFUL!!) It was almost ready, and she ran downstairs to do something. She was only gone for a minute, but when she got back up, the soup was burning on the bottom! "Weird", we both thought. She rushed to get it poured into another pot, but then she noticed that the burner wasn't off. Except it WAS off. The burner kept cycling from very, very hot (glowing deep red) down to like a simmer every several seconds, and nothing we did to the switch made any difference whatsoever!
This actually happened to me a few weeks ago, but Luke came over and fiddled with the knob, which made the burner turn off, so I completely forgot about it. I don't think I ever even mentioned it to Bob. It just made me look like I don't know how to work my own cooktop, LOL.
But this time nothing at all worked, and the burner was pumping out incredible amounts of heat while cycling on. I called Bob, who was on his way home, and he said just to flip the circuit breaker off. Fortunately it didn't take too many tries to figure out the right switch, and our crazy burner finally had to admit at least a temporary defeat. But with tonight being CAP and Bob's Bible study, he's not going to get a chance to look at it anytime soon. I hope it's an easy fix . . . we got this cooktop (a Frigidaire ceramic cooktop, for those taking notes on which cooktops to avoid, LOL) almost 4 years ago, so way too soon to think about replacing it.
I'm beginning to feel like all our appliances are revolting, to be honest! I just posted on Facebook about how all our refrigerator shelves and drawers are breaking--well, not the shelves themselves, which are glass, but all the cheap plastic parts that hold them in. They clearly are not made for the amount of food and big containers we put on them (although the 25 year old Montgomery Ward fridge I got from my Nana and Papa, which is out in the garage and has metal connecting pieces, is still going strong, no matter how many gallons of milk/giant watermelons/brining turkeys in huge pots, etc we put on those shelves . . .).
And our fridge down in the basement (another one from my Nana and Papa, one with the freezer on the bottom and the fridge on top) is slowly giving up the ghost as well. I had the best of intentions of running down there with a thermometer and testing it before Siri came, but I never did--until her gallon of milk spoiled after only about 2 days. Then I realized that the top fridge part was actually a balmy 52 degrees. The freezer, which we knew was not actually "freezing" things, was about 34 degrees, so she started using that as a fridge. But now random things ARE freezing down there. I'm telling you--it's an appliance plot! Hopefully the ovens and the dishwasher are still on our side.
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