My toaster fried, and now I have no electricity in our kitchen outlets (except the oven + dishwasher).?

Question

Our breaker box does not have a breaker for these kitchen outlets (though I did reset the master just in case). I also tried the little red/black button on one of our outlets. Still no luck. What's wrong?

I live in a condo. I have 1 breaker box and reset them all individually. I am only aware of one DFI outlet and I've already tried resetting it.

Answer 1

It is possible that a wire fried in a junction box or behind the receptacle itself. I had this problem and it took quite a while to find it. You will have to trace the wires back to the panel box, starting at the receptacle the toaster was plugged into.
The oven and dishwasher are both on separate circuits so they will not affect the rest of your kitchen outlets.
If you can't reset the gfi then the power is probably broken before it gets to the gfi or the gfi is bad. A couple of more options.
Good luck.

Answer 2

It is possible that you burned up the GFCI outlet. Does the GFI outlet click when you push the buttons? If not the outlet is bad or there is no power to the outlet. Either way I would pull it out and see if there is any power on the bottom screws of the GFI outlet. These things have electronics in them and can get fried too.

I am of course assuming you only have one GFI in the kitchen and it controls all the others. Oven and dishwasher normally have their own circuit.

Answer 3

There is a breaker somewhere for those outlets. It may not be labeled correctly.

Look in the breaker box (do you have Two boxes?) at the breakers themselves. Are there little clear plastic windows? Is one of them red? Turn that breaker off, then on. See if you outlets are working again. Don't forget to check the button on the outlet itself again.

Some breakers do not have red indicators and go to a 'half' position. Is there a breaker in the halfway between on and off position? Turn that breaker off, then on again and see if you have power in the outlets.

Sometimes, breakers in the box trip, but the lever doesn't appear to have moved. Try turning off, the on again the breakers in the panel one at a time and check the outlet for power. You will end up re-setting all the clocks in the house, of course, and turn off your computers before doing this.

After, that... call an electrician.

Answer 4

There must be a breaker for every outlet in your house, so I would suggest you go back and check each breaker switch to make sure one of them is not tripped. Resetting the Master won't reset the individual ones if they have been tripped, so you'll need to reset all of them individually - sometimes it is not easy to determine if a switch is on or off so I would recommend that you turn each one off-and then back on individually. Also, if there are more than one ground-fault outlets in your kitchen you will need to reset all of them one at a time. Good luck.

Answer 5

There has to be a breaker for it, unless it is tied to the other appliances. Check again.
Otherwise, it is possible that a wire burned off the outlet and made the circuit incomplete, or made the outlet bad inside. Kill the power and put in a new outlet. They are cheap.

Answer 6

Maybe it's time for an electrician? There is a breaker somewhere. And a GFCI will not reset if the power is off.

Answer 7

your dishwasher and stove or on seperate breakers
your kitchen outlets are on a breaker in the main panel
they apparently are not in the sub panel inside the home.

Answer 8

try doing the same for all of your GFI outlets sometimes they can control outlets in more rooms than one. try the ones in the bathroom and garage. I knew of one house that the garage GFI outlet controlled her whole kitchen.. make sure you hit the Test the RESET.. on all of them.

Answer 9

reset, Turn off every breaker and the Turn them all on.

Answer 10

LOL just use the oven to make toast.