Jen's Journal

No light came on; no heat was being produced...

Alas, the oven was broken. I quickly gave thought to my alternatives, with no one home downstairs I could:

1) try and cook the pizza with the residual heat from the initial heating.

2) use the toaster oven to cook parts of the pizza

3) run over to a friends with a half cooked pizza

4) give up and order take out pizza

Well, the decision was easy: my toaster oven is broken, I don't like sharing, (I would feel obligated to if I used someone else's oven), and I didn't want to spend money on something I already had. I would throw the pizza in the oven.

After watching the pizza for 15 minutes some of the cheese tried to melt, and some of the veggies got warm, but all and all the pizza did not cook. I ate 1/4 of it raw and threw the rest of it in the fridge. For those who are concerned I took parts of the pizza to work today and used their toaster oven to cook it.

So, now I had to deal with the oven. I phoned the landlord and left a message. Today he showed up to fix the appliance. I am told it is the timers on the stove and this has happened before. I hadn't touched the timers, nor had I experienced a problem in the one year I lived here, so I just smiled and nodded.

After watching the landlord fiddle with the three timer dials for 10-minutes I went into the study. I then listened to him swear while fiddling with the dials for the remainder of the hour. When I went back into the kitchen I noticed the power in the microwave was now gone. I guess he has given up for the evening because he removed half the fuses from the stove, said something about Google-ing the stove and walked downstairs leaving me with a broken oven, a few less elements on the stovetop and a powerless microwave.

I am expecting my coffee machine and 2-slot toaster to call it quits tomorrow morning.