Have the landlord fix it. That’s why you’re paying rent. People who choose not to be homeowners are always talking about how if something breaks, they make a call to the landlord and it’s fixed.
Have you been in a kitchen where a full Thanksgiving is being cooked? It’s not uncommon for the oven to be on all day as the turkey, casseroles, and pies are being baked. An oven being left on overnight should be fine. It sounds like the element was ending the end of its life and just happened to go out at that time. Just be glad it didn’t catch fire overnight.
It would be like if X left the TV or ceiling fan on overnight and it broke. You wouldn’t expect X to pay for the repair in that case. The oven is the same type of situation.
Another vote for “this is your landlord’s problem”
If you have an asshole landlord, call a renter’s legal aid and find out if you can legally withhold rent until it is fixed or what your recourse is. Working appliances are part of the expectation of your lease.
I agree that the landlord should be notified and that they have the choice of how to make the fix. Offering to replace it and use the receipt for the part as part of your rent wouldn’t be outrageous, though. Most elements are designed to be replaced easily. Some even pop in and out. But leave it as the landlord’s call.
Landlords can get twitchy if they’ve had a few idiot tenants. Some people can’t be trusted to change light bulbs correctly.
My wife has two orthodox Jewish sisters who wanted to have a meal at our house. Cooking with new cookware, and serving on disposable paper plates with plastic cookware seems to satisfy the requirements for cooking otherwise kosher food. The problem was with our oven that has been used for non-kosher cooking. They asked us to put the oven through two self clean cycles, and that would effectively make it “new”, and acceptable for cooking kosher foods.
We obliged, or at least tried to. The oven is 20+ years old, and when we put it into its second self clean cycle, it started to flip out. The digital panel started blinking and it made a loud buzzing noise. There was also no way to end the self clean cycle to the point that I had to kill the power to it on the fuse box. As such, we never did successfully make the over kosher, but more importantly, now our oven doesn’t work right. Now it always buzzes loudly when it’s left on for any length of time longer than 15 minutes, and my wife is fearful it will die because of this double self-clean cycle. I will be getting a repair guy out soon to look at it and see what damage was done, and if the buzzing can be fixed.
The question is: should we ask the sisters to pay for any part of this repair? I assume not since we agreed to do it, although if I had known there was any risk in this happening, I certainly wouldn’t have undertaken this exercise. I’m not even sure what the logic was as to why this self cleaning was supposed to be done twice. Is that a real orthodox rule or one they made up to accommodate us?
Likely the high heat fried something in the control panel. Running the cleaning cycle is a normal function for an oven, so I don’t think you should ask them to pay. Hopefully they will volunteer to help out.
No way the sisters should pay. That’s like asking someone to pay for your car repairs when it breaks down on the way to pick them up at the airport.
AS for whether it is a real orthodox rule the answer is likely yes and no. There is no de facto rule for this. Different rabbis would probably have different interpretations. But being kosher is a guide, it isn’t a sin. The key is that it was satisfactory for the sisters.