While making dinner last night, I made too many demands on my oven (tried to use the stove top and oven at the same time, silly me) and it stopped working. Perhaps it’s a circuit breaker? Nope, we checked the box located outside of my front door. Maybe there is a fuse in the large plug head? We tried using a myriad of tools (as I did not have a screwdriver, particularly not a TINY screw driver) to open the head with little to no success. Maybe there is a problem where the cord connects to the oven in the back? Sure, we can pry off the black plastic cover thingy, no problem. The wire is a little melted you say? Strip the wire to get a better connection you say? Sure, this is Guinea, that’s totally fine. Still no working oven. The only logical next step was to remove the plug head and stick the striped wires directly into the wall socket. I think this is the point when we passed from - oh sure, it’s Guinea, what did you expect – to - yeah I think this is actually dangerous. Still not working? You want to shove the wires in further with a plastic toothpick? Well we’ve gotten this far, haven’t we? There is a pan of brownie batter that we can’t reasonably put in the microwave. Fine, strip the cord further and shove the wires deeper into the wall. It works! We cook the brownies. Make sure I check on the oven every so often to verify that the wires haven’t melted and fused to the wall? Hm well that seems like a good idea.
In the end? It was totally fine, the brownies were cooked, and I had my companions unwire the oven from the wall before leaving. I will call an electrician tomorrow. So don’t worry about me or my oven, we’re totally fine.