Customer Reviews for GE - 30" Built-In Single Electric Convection Wall Oven with No Preheat Air Fry - Slate
Customer Rating
4
Nix need for WiFi forever Fry
on October 31, 2024
Posted by: Mama Gert
from Alton VA
I really like my oven. I have only used the air fryer twice. I have used the oven roast method once. The biggest frustration was having to get this oven set up to Wi-Fi so I could use the air fryer mode. I was planning to use it one evening for gas but then, I realized I had to get it connected to Wi-Fi. It makes absolutely no sense. I am 69 years old and I tried and tried for two hours to get this thing connected and couldn’t. I had to get somebody to come and help me at a later time. It was so frustrating. Now that it’s set up I don’t even have to use Wi-Fi to use my oven so why in the world did it even have to be hooked up to Wi-Fi? So stupid. I am giving it a four star because of the stupid Wi-Fi issue. I love the convection to bake bread and it does a great job.
So far, so good. Install went a little wrong because the seller said it would fit and it was too big. Haven’t used it yet, but looks nice and has a lot of nice features.
Just installed yesterday. Looks great and everything seems to work good. Had some trouble getting it hooked up to Wifi. That was likely user error. My kitchen originally had an 27 inch but we upgraded to the 30. Excited to try all the features out. Very happy with my purchase!
Just installed and used a couple of times. Easy to use digital panel, quiet operation, fantastic interior lighting and low level chimes on mode operation and timer. Looking forward to many years of reliable baking. Replaced a 30+ year GE 30" wall oven.
The oven works well. Temperature seems accurate and things bake evenly. But...
Normal preheating is okay, but kind of slow. I do like that it shows the temperature as it's rising.
I was anxious to try the "No Preheat Air Fry", but the oven was clearly not hot enough until it preheated for a while. But since it's "no preheat", when you turn it on to airfry, it doesn't tell you the current temperature in the oven. So you just have to wait awhile before putting the food in, or put the food in for longer than the package indicates.
Waking up the control panel requires touching where an actual button is, which of course you can’t see. So it sometimes takes multiple touches to get it to wake up. Then, if you’ve touched in on the left, whatever control you’ve BLINDLY touched is ACTIVATED. How stupid is that?
The timer controls are awkward. There's a "cancel" button and an "off" button. When I want to turn off the timer, I find that I hit "off" instead of "cancel" . This turns off the oven. NOT WHAT I MEANT TO DO. Hopefully I'll get used to it. Also, the timer chimes when there's one minute left. I find that annoying because I think the timer is done, but I have to wait another minute. The timer is not very loud either. It's okay if I'm close by, but I don't think I could hear it from another room. And that's at it's loudest setting.
What really annoys me is that the oven timer sends a message to my phone. That might be okay if it was accurate, but wifi being what it is, it might be a minute or more after the real timer goes off. I'd really like to be able to disable this "feature"!
I tried using the probe for roasting meat. One, it was not even close to accurate. Two, the cable is way too short. If the probe is in meat and you try to pull the oven rack out, the probe cable won't let it slide out. So you have to unplug it before you can even pull out the oven rack.
Finally, having to print the manual myself is just annoying and cheap.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
3
Performance
3
Quality
3
Value
3
Response from geappliances.comBy Michael, GE_Appliances, September 24, 2024
We’re happy to hear that your new oven has been working well. However, we are constantly working to make our appliances the best they can be, and we’ll be sure to forward your feedback about the controls, the timer, and the probe to our product team; we use feedback such as yours so we can address any concerns and continue to improve.