On Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 10:12:33 PM UTC-6, FrozenNorth wrote:
On 2015-11-15 11:03 PM, sms wrote:
On 11/15/2015 7:41 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
My wife has been talking about getting a new range with a convection
oven
in it. Is there any real advantage to a convectiion oven, or it is just
some advertising hype ?

Our daughter (which does not have one) mentioned that the cooking recipes
will have to be changed when switching ovens. Anything to that ?

Any recommendations on what brand to get ? The local stores seem to
have a
LG on sale for around $ 700 to $ 800 and the ratings at Lowes web
site is
very good for about 300 ratings.

My sister-in-law has an LG and there is one big problem with it. If you
put something heavy on the rack then the rack bends falls out of the
slots and everything falls to the bottom.

"I have (I believe) the exact same wall oven; this is my second one and
I am about to get the third. The first one was defective--it happens
sometimes and while it took a while, I was able to get a replacement
from LG. The one I have has been in my kitchen since October of '09.
However, about a month ago, my racks started falling off the guides.
Everyone thought I was hallucinating but fall they did. They are now
about 1/4" too narrow for the cavity of the oven. I called LG, they told
me which repair service to call and they came Thursday. It is not my
imagination, the racks no longer fit--the culprit? The self clean cycle..
Who knew? I mean it is an integral part of the oven, right? Well, that
is what caused it--LG is not the only manufacturer to have this problem,
if you google the problem, you will see others who have had the same
thing. So now am waiting to see if LG will make it right and replace the
oven at no charge. I am already into it for a service call fee which I
paid. But even though it is out of warranty, it does seem as though this
is something that is their fault, not mine. Wish me luck and think twice
before turning on that self clean feature cause if it happened to me, it
could happen to you. I would guess that I have used it 3-4 times a year
each year and it was only after the last time I used it that the problem
occurred."

My oven manual recommends removing the racks before the self clean cycle
It is not LG or a convection oven, but there must be a reason for that.
--
Froz...

Perhaps the heat from the self cleaning cycle is enough to heat treat the metal racks? During the manufacturing process, the metal was stretched when formed and the heat relieved the stress causing the wire shrink. Is there a metallurgist out there reading the group? ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Metal Monster