"Your motherboard is shot," the repairman said, shutting the door to my electric oven and gathering his tools. What a cozy word, I thought, for the complex electronic object that no longer governed my stove. "Eight years," he explained, "is about the lifetime of this appliance. You're lucky it made it to 10."At moments like these, I get nostalgic for the simpler, more durable cooking setups I've worked with - old- [...]
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