Cooking a roast and oven gone cold!

[leothetiler]

I am halfway through cooking my roast lamb, opened the oven to put the spuds in and it has lost all it's heat.

It is an electric fan oven, and the fan is still spinning, but no heat at all! Think I am going to go hungry today.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what may have gone wrong?

[robinhood21]

I assume that as the fan is running the timer has not kicked in and turned the oven off?

[leothetiler]

Yes fan is running, timer has not stopped the oven, but the light next to the temperature dial is always on indicating the oven is trying to heat up, but without success!

[Alfa_75_Steve]

Are there any other settings for the oven?

Our SMEG has 2 fan settings and 2 convection settings - one of the fan settings no longer works, but the other one does.

No idea what's wrong with it - and really can't be bothered as it only gets used once or twice a week.

[robinhood21]

I would imagine the temp stat must have gone. I don't think it will be the elements as there are usually two elements in an oven, unless of course one had gone a while ago and you had not noticed.

[leothetiler]

robinhood21 said:

I would imagine the temp stat must have gone. I don't think it will be the elements as there are usually two elements in an oven, unless of course one had gone a while ago and you had not noticed.

Do you know if that is easy/cheap to mend. I just do not like the thought with these built in ovens of having the lot ripped out and trying to find one to fit the existing hole.

[Alfa_75_Steve]

leothetiler said:

robinhood21 said:

I would imagine the temp stat must have gone. I don't think it will be the elements as there are usually two elements in an oven, unless of course one had gone a while ago and you had not noticed.

Do you know if that is easy/cheap to mend. I just do not like the thought with these built in ovens of having the lot ripped out and trying to find one to fit the existing hole.

The ovens are all a standard fit.

They mostly just slide in and out of the hole and are powered from a standard 13A socket.

[leothetiler]

Oh good, at least that is something. Hope I can get it repaired though

[Roger645]

Alfa_75_Steve said:

leothetiler said:

robinhood21 said:

I would imagine the temp stat must have gone. I don't think it will be the elements as there are usually two elements in an oven, unless of course one had gone a while ago and you had not noticed.

Do you know if that is easy/cheap to mend. I just do not like the thought with these built in ovens of having the lot ripped out and trying to find one to fit the existing hole.

The ovens are all a standard fit.

They mostly just slide in and out of the hole and are powered from a standard 13A socket.

I've not seen one that uses a 13A socket. Most fitted ovens are hardwired into a dedicated cooker socket.

[esselte]

Roger645 said:

Alfa_75_Steve said:

leothetiler said:

robinhood21 said:

I would imagine the temp stat must have gone. I don't think it will be the elements as there are usually two elements in an oven, unless of course one had gone a while ago and you had not noticed.

Do you know if that is easy/cheap to mend. I just do not like the thought with these built in ovens of having the lot ripped out and trying to find one to fit the existing hole.

The ovens are all a standard fit.

They mostly just slide in and out of the hole and are powered from a standard 13A socket.

I've not seen one that uses a 13A socket. Most fitted ovens are hardwired into a dedicated cooker socket.

Our oven uses a normal 13A socket...I think hobs may need a hardwired connection..

[Simpo Two]

esselte said:

Our oven uses a normal 13A socket...I think hobs may need a hardwired connection..

Depends on the current they use. My oven spec says 15A and the induction hob says 32A (if all rings are on full, which they never are). Hence the hob is powered from the old 32A cooker circuit, and the oven from the 13A circuit which operated the sparker on the old gas hob. All fine after a year

[Roger645]

Simpo Two said:

esselte said:

Our oven uses a normal 13A socket...I think hobs may need a hardwired connection..

Depends on the current they use. My oven spec says 15A and the induction hob says 32A (if all rings are on full, which they never are). Hence the hob is powered from the old 32A cooker circuit, and the oven from the 13A circuit which operated the sparker on the old gas hob. All fine after a year

Checked mine again and had a surf, must be the double ovens that I was thinking of.

[51mes]

why not cook it in a gravy in a pan.. ok not roasted but better than throwing it away as raw ;-)

Simes.

[Simpo Two]

Roger645 said:

Checked mine again and had a surf, must be the double ovens that I was thinking of.

I think there's also an element (no pun intended!) of increasing efficiency with newer models. But yes, I guess double ovens can draw twice as much.