Can You Reflow Solder In the Kitchen?

I forgot to mention that I used 137C 278F Melting Point (Eutectic) solder paste. The label says 247 Solder. It was $10.99 on Amazon.
I've been tempted to buy a hot plate for reflow soldering my PCBs. It occurred to me that a hot plate is nothing but an electric stove and I already have one of those. For better and worse, I also have a wife. How do balance this out? We reflow solder when she isn't home!
In my mind, I couldn't really see how this could go wrong, but I've said that 1,000 times and been wrong. So, I figured I'd give it a shot. This video is me trying out reflow soldering, the use of PCB stencils, and the usual incoherent rants.
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[@arturo182]

Thanks for the shout-out 😄

[@klazzera]

I recommend you to reflow the board again with some good old hand soldering flux like felder lötfett or something similiar, a rosin flux that is of good quality. Such fluxes work wonders for solder meniscus forming and I'm pretty sure it will align the components at the dead center. Those newer high tech fluxes never worked good enough for me, maybe I don't have the good ones.

[@TrystansWorkbench]

Brandon, I enjoyed your video. I received a "UYUE 946-1010" hotplate today, so I've been scouring RUclips looking at how other people are using hotplates. I reflowed a small board and worked well. To reduce the amount of paste use a stiff plastic card. Also, you can press the components down into the paste when you place them. Using a proper hotplate will allow you to mess about with the speed it heats up, and reflows - that probably has a bearing on the way things solder too. If yours takes too long to heat up on the stove then the effectiveness of the flux may be gone by the time the solder melts. Just my thoughts of "day one" of hotplate reflow soldering. I look forward to more videos.

[@lohikarhu734]

use a credit card to spread the paste, or maybe your membership card at your local video rental place...

[@Jan-gj8bm]

Generally incompetent 😂