Customer Reviews for GE - 30" Built-In Single Electric Wall Oven
Customer Rating
1
Don't Buy
on October 14, 2018
Posted by: joannahs
from chapel hill north carolina
I bought this oven 1 year ago and have had the fire dept. 3 times for smoke. The bottom feature--a flat bottom with no heating element visable means the oven bottom is as hot as a skillet and if your food leaks or overflows--even a small amount it burns and smokes. YUCK!! It also takes a long time to heat up. I'm buying another type of oven. GE hae a cook use this oven for awhile before you decide on a redesign.
This oven is beautiful and does its job nicely. However, it takes about 20 minutes to to heat to 400 degrees. It seems like that's much longer than our prior GE oven.
Our landlord purchased this oven two weeks ago to replace the old one that died. This is the worst oven I have ever used. The temperature is at least 20 degrees off (I have started automatically adding 25 degrees and 2-10 minutes to all my tried and true recipes), nothing browns on the bottoms (muffins, frozen pizzas, cookies, baked cobblers, chicken pot pie).* The not browning is my biggest problem, the others are just minor inconveniences. The preheat time is much longer than our previous oven. I wish I could see the temp as it moves up rather than “Pr3.” I also find it unfathomable that a manufacturer would make an oven without a light switch; the only way to turn on the light is to open the door. There is no self clean feature. The vent on the bottom that blows hot air into my toddler’s face is not dangerous, but I’m not a fan.
As I mentioned, there are several things I dislike about the model, but the big thing for me is the total lack of functionality. Nothing crisps on the bottom. Maybe there is something wrong with our individual one. I can say with certainty I am unimpressed.
We bought a new home and this oven was supplied by the builder. You can’t turn on the oven light unless you open the door, news flash, that lets out the heat which is not good when baking. Next it only has a “Stem Clean” feature that you pour 1 cup of water onto the bottom of the oven and turn on “Stem Clean”. When the cycle is completed you get to wipe out the hot water from the oven and it doesn’t clean a thing. Worst oven I have ever had in 60+ years!!!
IT is not in your best interest to purchase this model of oven. It has no light switch! Can you imagine how embarrassed the designers feel in this omission? Don't share their embarrassment in having to tell your guests that you bought an oven with no light switch. If you have any choice in the matter - buy something else.