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Ammonite

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I'm happy with the cooker apart from the oven shelf. It has a lip at the rear to stop things falling down the back onto the burner and stops to prevent the shelf sliding all the way out unless you lift it but nothing to stop whatever is in the oven sliding out when the weight of the open door tilts the oven towards you.

In port I can lock the gimball and you can get trays that slot directly into the racks (I think?) but has anyone devised a cheap and cheerful means to add a lip on the front edge of the shelf to stop things sliding out?
 
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This has been a problem with boat cookers for a looong time. My most memorable disaster was in 1967 off the Moray coast. I was heating 2 Fray Bentos pies in the oven and when they were ready I opened the oven door. The cooker tilted and the pie on the top shelf slid out and landed upside down on the floor. The lower one stayed put. Guess who had to eat the one on the floor.
 
I did consider this but it means you can't slide the shelf forward more than 3" before it hits the stops and you also risk things falling off the back of the shelf onto the burner.

In an ideal world it would have the same lip front and back.

We've only had the boat a year and three people have already burnt themselves trying to catch the falling tray/dish. I doubt they will make the same mistake twice but it seems like a stupid design.
 
Buy a decent pair of commercial standard oven gloves; the sort that come up to your elbows. If you've got those stupid things with a bit of cloth between two pads, bin it!
 
Curiously about half of the pictures online show the oven with the lip at the front and the other 50% at the back!
 
If you fit a lip it'll still come out, but this time with the rack too!

I have a short length of kevlar line spliced onto the door handle with a snap clip securing it onto the fiddle rails. Stops the door opening in the first place, but why oh why isn't there a door latch already fitted by the manufacturer?

One could shove a wedge under the oven when opening at sea, but again, it is something that should have been addressed at manufacture. Maybe a piece of 'Meccano' into which the 'in port' bolt can be slotted at any angle of heel?
 
Iliade said:
If you fit a lip it'll still come out, but this time with the rack too!

I have a short length of kevlar line spliced onto the door handle with a snap clip securing it onto the fiddle rails. Stops the door opening in the first place, but why oh why isn't there a door latch already fitted by the manufacturer?

One could shove a wedge under the oven when opening at sea, but again, it is something that should have been addressed at manufacture. Maybe a piece of 'Meccano' into which the 'in port' bolt can be slotted at any angle of heel?
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The rack has two retaining lugs so will only side out about 2/3rds so a lip would work. To remove the rack you need to lift it to clear the lugs
 
Bodach na mara said:
This has been a problem with boat cookers for a looong time. My most memorable disaster was in 1967 off the Moray coast. I was heating 2 Fray Bentos pies in the oven and when they were ready I opened the oven door. The cooker tilted and the pie on the top shelf slid out and landed upside down on the floor. The lower one stayed put. Guess who had to eat the one on the floor.
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Such a tragedy needs to be filmed in underexposed B&W and run slomo with the theme from Psycho dubbed over, perhaps with a Wilhelm scream as a finale.
 
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Ammonite said:
The rack has two retaining lugs so will only side out about 2/3rds so a lip would work. To remove the rack you need to lift it to clear the lugs
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Only if you want them to come out. If they want to escape, those bends don't stop them. You can guess how I know... (Mine is only a 2000 mind.)

Should be pretty easy to bend a nickel welding rod to work as a front lip nonetheless.
 
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