Product review (2 stars): Very disappointing oven
I've had my oven for just over 5 years now, and I'm pretty fed up with its infuriating quirks and unreliability. It looks great, has beautifully engineered racks that slide smoothly with ball bearings, but comes up short where it matters. We've had repair people out many times, both under warranty and now beyond, with a variety of problems, mostly involving the electronics: it underheats, or overheats, or fails to hold a heat setting. The last repairman to see the oven simply advised us never to use the bake setting at all: "This is designed to be used as a convection oven," he said. "Don't even bother with the BAKE setting." That advice has helped somewhat, but now even the convection setting has proved unreliable. As for quirks, how about this? If you've set the oven for, say, 350, and then want to reset it to a lower setting, say, 300, you can't do it -- if you turn the dial down to 300, nothing happens. The workaround? Turn the oven off, wait for 2-5 minutes until the lights go out, and then reset to 300. Not very handy. Any cheap GE electric oven can handle this simple task in a flash. But to spend over $3000 for an oven, and end up with performance like this? Ridiculous.