My Hotpoint cooker door inner glass shattered the other day and I have bought a spare to replace. The glass is the inner sheet which makes contact with the oven door seal. The glass has a black border strip around the edge about 3 inches wide, forming a clear window in the centre with said black border on the outside edges. The black border is a hard film of some kind, bonded to the glass on one side of the sheet, you can feel a small edge along the border between it and the rest of the glass, due to the very slight extra thickness of the strip film. The other side is smooth glass all the way to the edge. I can't see any other coating on the clear portions of the glass, either side of the sheet, to differentiate one side from the other e.g. a heat reflective coating. I don't know if the border serves any purpose other than cosmetic, but don't want to fit it the wrong way round if there is any risk.
My question is, which side should face the door seal, i.e. the hot side? The black strip side, or the bare glass side? I don't have the cooker model number to hand at the mo, but the part is this one:
https://www.ransomspares.co.uk/parts/cookers-hobs/hotpoint/inner-door-glass-main-oven/276402.htm
My question is, which side should face the door seal, i.e. the hot side? The black strip side, or the bare glass side? I don't have the cooker model number to hand at the mo, but the part is this one:
https://www.ransomspares.co.uk/parts/cookers-hobs/hotpoint/inner-door-glass-main-oven/276402.htm