Here we are well into Autumn, the grills are getting stored for winter and you’re re-discovering your oven… only to find, to your utter shock and dismay, that your strategy of fixing the oven by ignoring it all summer and using the outside grill exclusively completely failed to fix anything in the oven. So, [...]

If you’ve accidentally switched the oven control on your GE oven from Fahrenheit to Celsius (or vice versa), it can seem like an oven control problem; the keypad will accept some temperature selections and not others. Easy enough to switch back to the way you want it– this excerpt from your owner’s manual explains [...]

Your gas oven won’t heat up and, since you’re a contemplative person who knows what you don’t know, you’d like to learn how to prove which part is bad. Come with me now and read the inspiring story of how a diligent grasshopper proved that the ignitor in his oven was bad and once [...]

Those braided door gaskets in Dacor oven doors are nice and fluffy and springy when they’re new. As you use the oven and spill grease on the door, the gasket will begin to compress allowing heat to escape. At some point, it will bother you enough that you’re gonna need to replace the [...]

This is usually a bad touchpad. The way to tell for sure is to kill power to the unit, take the control panel down and unplug the ribbon connector that connects touchpanel to the clock. Put it back together and reapply power. The clock will just sit there blinking and, obviously, the buttons won’t [...]

If your Kitchenaid built-in wall oven keeps blowing the thermal fuse, there’s a service kit out to fix this problem. Parts links and detailed discussion of this problem here.

Service Flash from Electrolux on the 30″ Frigidaire Free-Standing Ranges with lower mini oven and warmer drawer combination:

Beeping sound coming from the control panel area with no fault code displayed in the Electronic Oven Control (EOC). The consumer can set the oven lock out feature and the beeping stops.

Possible open or shorted mini oven [...]

There’s a trick to this (isn’t there always a trick?) which is explained in your user’s guide. In case you lost your user’s guide, our gracious and lovely moderator, Pegi, has re-printed it for you here.

Oven not getting hot and you’re thinking you need to replace the bake element? Well, for starters, how do you know the element is bad? Could be the function selector switch, a burnt wire, lots of things. And then there’s the question of how to replace the element. RandyC, a grasshopper [...]

This is usually a bad clock, more properly called an electronic range control (ERC). Wanna be absotootly, posilootly sure? Ok, read this.

Here are some juicy pearls of appliantology wisdom from our friends at Maytag for understanding F1 fault codes. In some models, there are subcodes that make diagnosis even easier. Here’s a simple explanation of what’s going on and how to troubleshoot:

The F1 code indicates that:

a. The electronic range control (ERC) is sensing [...]

If you’re having erratic temperature control and/or and dim display in your Jenn Air range, then you need to understand how the temperature control circuit works before you can fix it. Sublime Master, Trying to Help, offers this very succinct and easy-to-digest explanation.

Coming right on the heals of GE’s settlement of the class action lawsuit brought against them for their sweaty refrigerators, GE is recalling their professional gas ranges due to an explosion risk!
If it wasn’t so pathetic, it would almost be funny.

DOOR LOCK ERROR

corrected burner tube / gas oven goes boom