My General Electric oven crapped out the other day and when I was on the phone with the warranty dudes, they wanted to know what the part and serial numbers were. And I had no freaking clue! It turns out that they didn’t either. It can hide in various places on GE ovens. So, in order to find the model and part number for my GE stove and oven, they told me to do the following:

• Open the oven door and look for a plate between the hinges.
• Lift the service panel (the thing you open when you gotta relight the pilot light) and look on the inner left side of the frame.
• Open the oven door and look on the frame behind the door.
• Pop open the service and look on the right side.
• Open oven door and look at the back of the oven in the top right hand corner.
• Check the hood (if you have one) on the lip or in the attached cabinet (if you’ve got one).
• Open the drawer on the bottom and check on the frame.

I checked all these places and it ended up being on the drawer (it’s always in the last place you look). It was also probably in the manual, but God knows I don’t have that thing anymore. If I ever become an engineer, I’m totally going to print the model number on every available surface. In glowing red letters. In 3-D. It’ll be really helpful during those five minutes when the service guy on the other end of the line’s regard of your intelligence is slowly waning…