went to finish the chicken soup, and noticed the oven was on, so I tried to open the door and the handle came right off…

it had been loosening before and I would just tighten it…

my housemate and I couldn’t put the handle back on because the oven was hot… we left it to cool and then tried again…

when we went to open it, the inside sort of separated… I was hoping this allowed us to get to the window that we could clean…

unfortunately, it was not the one, although we did clean this portion…

next he went out and bought some loctite to make sure the handle stayed on… we weren’t able to get to the really messed up window, but the important thing was to get the handle back on the door, which was being held closed by the stepstool…

now it is fixed… we will see if it comes loose again…