Well, fuckety-fuck

[desperance]

I made sourdough hot cross buns - and I cannot bake them, because the fucking stove won't light. And we have guests for dinner tomorrow. Which is Easter Sunday. Likelihood of repair, 'twixt now and then? Yeah, right...

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[movingfinger]

Gas or electric? Pilot or electronic, if gas?

[desperance]

Gas, electronic (I think). We had (what I am assuming to be) the same problem a couple of years ago, and a nice man took the thing apart and replaced a part and then it worked. I am in hopes that that part is the problem, and that it is still under warranty - but there is no way we can get it fixed this weekend. And I'm away all next week. And dinner guests. And aaargh.

[movingfinger]

Here are the 2 things I would do (and have done, except mine isn't electronic):

1. Google for the manual, and see whether there is a thermocouple or similar thing you can reset. In my oven, this means lying on the floor with a flashlight and a wooden spoon and reaching in to push a button at the very back. The thermocouple is a safety valve that cuts off the gas flow if it overheats or if the pilot blows out. Or just randomly, if its spring gets tired. I have two other thermocouples on the top that I have to reset more often, it's an old stove, those are more accessible but the wooden spoon handle is the best way to press those in too. Gas ovens have safety things like this built in, and it's possible this is something you can just do.

2. Run out and buy a biggish countertop/tabletop toaster oven. Seriously. DeLonghi makes some that are pretty much an entire totally competent oven and some of them even have rotisseries. Keep as a spare when crisis is past.

Mine blew on New Year's Eve once and the thermocouple was dead-dead, non-resettable. Oh, that was fun.