What's the best small appliance substitute for a stove/oven? [more inside]
posted by Diplodocus on May 1, 2010 - 21 answers

My electric oven's bottom element looks fine, but... [more inside]
posted by Decimask on May 31, 2009 - 12 answers

So, I moved into my new apartment 2 weeks ago, and finally found the time to cook my first real dinner. The problem is my oven. I love to cook, and it looks like this apartment came with an O'Keefe & Merritt oven, something mustard-colored out of the 70s (not the cool vintage 50s kind.) Two of the burners wouldn't light at all, and the other 2 lit, but when I turned them off and tried to re-light them they wouldn't. And this is my first older oven, so I guess you can't use the oven and the stovetop at the same time? Or at least I couldn't. This aggression will not stand. I guess my question is, after only 2 weeks of occupancy, how do I go about talking to my landlord about getting a new oven? Or talking her into getting a new oven, in these trying financial times. I guess that every tenant before me was fine with it but I could barely make edible pasta and garlic bread and that's not gonna work. Thoughts?
posted by buzzkillington on Feb 15, 2009 - 15 answers

Is our New York City landlord responsible for repairing our broken oven? [more inside]
posted by rustcellar on Jan 6, 2008 - 14 answers