Cooker Manufacture

[bradmoor]

Last Sunday my wife opened our gas cooker door and the door shattered and literally exploded over the kitchen floor. The pieces were to my astonishment made of glass.When I looked on Which online it mentioned in a review " in the case of a catastrophic fault e.g. an oven door shattering ". This infers that glass is the preferred material in the manufacture of oven doors, whoever the maker. Can anyone confirm if this is correct?

[Mamyalynne]

Some reading on it here.

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2017/09/exploding-ovens-why-glass-doors-shatter-and-what-to-do-it-if-happens-to-you/

[hc4361]

Most ovens have glass doors these days.

[Buenchico]

Glass is presumably the 'preferred material' for oven doors simply because you can see through it. That might not be important if, say, you're only cooking a casserole but it's vital if you've got a soufflé in the oven or if you want to get your baking 'spot on'.

Worth a read:
https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/fix-it-yourself/ovens-hobs-a-cookers/2831-door-glass-replacement

[IJKLM]

Glass is one of the very few materials that has decent mechanical strength at 300°C and is also see-through. It is by far the cheapest such material.

It is also quite hard so can withstand abrasive cleaning processes and quite inert, so can withstand caustic or acidic cleaning materials.

My guess is that it is borosilicate glass (the same as the trade-name "Pyrex"), though that might not be true

Cookers - like other consumer appliances) tend to use toughened glass that — when it does shatter — ends up in small fragments with few sharp edges.

it's a pretty good material choice :)

[roopower]

Mine is definitely glass of some sort