Product review (2 stars): Usually works beautifully. repeated part failures - doesn't work without electricity - shallow racks
I have had this stove for a couple of years now, and I have been plagued with problems and disappointments. Let me say that when the stove is working it is magnificent. My first disappointment was learning that the stove will NOT work unless there is electricity. I fully expected the clock, and timers and everything else not to work... but please, I firmly believed that gas stoves all could be lit manually when the power was out. Not so with this model. There is an additional regulator inside that requires power. No power, no gas. Second, the knob assemblies (the part that turns to make the gas flow) get STUCK and have to be replaced. Without warranty, just the parts are near 100 dollars each. When the first one happened, luckily the burner was in the OFF position. I called the claim company (not Maytag- they don't want to know you) and the repairman cam out a few weeks later. The day after he replaced that assembly, another one stuck. Took another couple weeks for that one. The THIRD time a knob stuck, it was in the ON position. It took pliers and a lot of brute force to turn it off. I asked the repairman if there was anything I was doing wrong, or if there was something I could do to prevent it. He said no way, the parts are made in China, and they fail. A minor issue I've found with the stove's design is that because it is a convection oven as well, the racks will not accept a 16 inch pizza pan. If that's an issue for you, it's something you want to know. Within the first year of use, the manifold panel (the white panel right behind the knobs) began to bubble up and lose its paint. NOT COVERED unless it happened in the first 30 days. I paid up front for a replacement, which was not perfect upon arrival, and I used touch up paint to fix THAT. Like I said, when the stove is fully functional, it's a beauty. Impressive, heavy, stylish - it's got it all. I cook a lot, and when the problems occur, they are extremely frustrating.