I seriously need some input on how to open a pan storage drawer (the thing @ the bottom) on an electric stove! I have an apartment and it's not my stove.
The lip of a glass baking dish has gotten wedged under the lip of the edge of the door (why the manufacturer would have an disaster waiting to happen opening like that I can't imagine!). I can pull the door open about an inch and a half. I have shaken it, tried to move things around, etc. I have considered breaking the dish, but I can't get far enough inside of it to place a hammer or anything strong enough to break it.
My question is: is there anything on the back of the stove that can be unscrewed, some mystery way to get inside there? I took the oven door off and that helped a bit with access, but not enough. I don't see that I can unscrew much else productively, mainly because of the hinges for the oven door which don't appear to come off. I'd really like to get and use the pans, but I mainly don't want the apartments mad at me.
By Vicki from Dallas, TX
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Call the stove Mfg. and ask how they would recommend you get it open. Or take a strong wire hanger (doubled) and bend it to fit in that small opening. See if you can push the glass pan back or down enough to pull the drawer open. I also have one of those drawers. Good Luck, GG Vi
Tried everything everyone said we tilted the oven forewarn to floor with help every thing in drawer went forward finally it worked never over fill there's a gap in front that's where it gets stuck
I have tried everything. The drawer is not overfull. The last time it got stuck, I got rid of everything in it, except for three cookie sheets and a couple of frying pans. That is all that is in it.
If you are resigned to losing the glass dish, try using a screwdriver as a chisel. Pound the handle end of the screwdriver with a hammer. Those glass dishes are usually pretty tough though.
We tried everything everyone said here's the answe with help tilt the oven forward to covered floor then every thing inside wil move forward Opening up if not shake the handle around in front I'm so smart for women powerp
Try taking a wooden spoon or wedge and fit it under the top edge of the dish or if it's sitting on top of a baking sheet or something else try pushing down on that with the wooden spoon to lower the baking dish below the stove bottom. Good luck.
Update, I got it open. Thanks for your advice. I tried everything, but what finally worked was to pull out the muffin tins under it (one of them I mashed up pretty badly before I tried this). Oddly enough, they came out like magic and then the glass pan just "fell down".
Thank you!! I found this because I had the same problem!! It was also the muffin pans causing the problem!! I was able to push them back with a long handle and slam the door shut, then the stuck pizza pan fell, and the drawer opened!
I found this after I fixed mine. Never again will I overfill this drawer. First, I tried a yard stick, spatula, and a knife sharpener. What did it was lifting the oven up by the drawer handle and shaking the whole oven while someone else is pulling on the drawer. Then it opened within 30 seconds.
I had this problem with my stove drawer. I got it open by using a long screwdriver to poke at the things under the pan and move them around until the Pyrex baking dish dropped down far enough to get it out. To stop this from happening again, I took the drawer out and replaced it with a Rubbermaid storage drawer on wheels. I put one of those divided silverware drawer inserts upside down inside the empty drawer space to raise the Rubbermaid box to the height where it could slide over the stove frame, so I wouldn't have to lift it in and out, and it works well enough to store my baking pans.
For anyone having the same problem, I found a simple solution. Move the stove out. From behind the stove, you can easily remove anything stuck. Mine still stuck after I had removed everything. The problem was, the guide wheels were skewed out. I removed the guide wheels and bent the tabs the wheels screwed into back to their original position, and replaced the wheels. Now, no problem! Another tip: get some sliders to fit under the stove legs, esp. if you have vinyl or ceramic floors. And you can clean the floor while you have it out too! Mine hadn't been moved out in probably twenty years. :-)
We were able to access the drawer from the rear by pulling out the stove and pushing down the pan from there.
our warming drawer (that's what it is), was not accessible from the back, but since I had pulled it out of its space I got thethought from somewhere that i should tilt it back. i had to prop it in the front on a cooler and the back of the stove was wide enough to rest on the countertops.
Pull the oven away from the wall, tip it, shake it, took me 5 seconds to fix. After trying spatula and thinking about removing the back. If you are like me, you'll be wondering why you didn't think of that, first! Three cheers for gravity!
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