If you got fat impregnated water over the elements that's going to smell strange when it burns off.
Electric cookers are made with these sorts of mishaps, pots boiling over in mind I would clean and mop open the windows and let the element heat up give it ten mins and see if it has resolved itself before spending money on an electrician.
If it was shorting it would trip your fuse box.
You can always turn it on remotely from the wall switch with a insulated pair of pliers if your worried.
As you may have guessed I have done this myself more than once
