Manually Starting Self Clean cycle on Electrolux Washer
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Comments (9)IMO any self clean is a bad thing, having said that the capital has few electronic componants which self clean can damage, we dont use it that often but when we do it certainly works very well. As for the rolling racks they are not fully extending but work well. the rotisserie is fantastic, the first thing I did when the range arrived was to cook two chickens and one beef joint to see how it performed. you can see the resluts in the PDF's attached in this link below. Is it worth an extra $1000 I would say maybe for the self clean if you use it, yes for the racks and a huge yes for the rotisserie. (the pdf files are just below the picture of the 30" range) Here is a link that might be useful: capital Rotisserie...See MorePetrified to use Self Clean on Electrolux Icon!
Comments (9)The reason I asked, some earlier Elux ovens/ranges, had a problem with the thermal circuit breaker tripping during a self cleaning. That was fixed by adding a washer around the sensor, (as I recall)~~~probably a couple years ago. Myself, and I have an Elux Icon oven, (about 7 years old now), I never self clean it. At the present time, and even back in 2006, when I bought my oven, NONE of the manufacturers know how to "Properly design" a self cleaning oven. For those of you that have gas direct vent fireplaces, this is how the self cleaning ovens should have been designed, ~~~~~with the electronics at the bottom of the oven and out of the heat, and the actual oven cavity well insulated. I can run my gas fireplace all day long, yet the area below the firepit, (where the electronics are for the remote control and the gas valves, remains "Cool as a cucumber", that's how they should have designed the self cleaning ovens, but instead they just took the older designs, that did not have delicate electronics and added the electronics to those. So until I see a "Redesign" that makes sense, and protects the delicate electronics, I will clean mine, myself, which has NOT been a problem in the 7+ years we've had the Elux oven. We also see posts that "supposedly" have come from appliance service people that caution against self cleaning as they say it can damage the porcelain. HTH's Gary...See MoreMaytag Bravos TL HE washer Clean cycle
Comments (12)Thanks. Dianne47, that is exactly what happens if I turn it off...the water drains away. It will only allow about 5 min from pause to cut off if you don't start it back up. So much for a soak. whirlpool, there is a light that comes on the control panel that indicates a cleaning is due. It can be reset by pressing cancel. The manual says if you cancel the cleaning cycle, you need to rinse out the detergent and softener dispensers by running a rinse and spin cycle with an empty machine. I am not sure what would happen if I ignore the clean warning too long. Probably smells would develop over time, so I just wonder if anyone has used only bleach as a cleaning agent in this cycle. Thank you so much for your response. Murphy...See MoreWill my Thermador oven survive the self clean cycle?
Comments (10)Ifoco: You are hardly the only one who expects oven self cleaning to work without problems. Now, we do know that Whirlpool stove and oven products (including KitchenAid) had a bad design for several years and self-cleaning caused a lot of problems. Mostly, though, about all we can say is that self cleaning functions can kill ovens but mostly does not. At least not quickly. Mostly. Self cleaning certainly will cause some ovens to fail in every product line. Maybe it happens 12 years after you buy it. Maybe it happens sooner. Maybe it never happens. Ovens are manufactured products. Inevitably, in every mass-produced line of products, even the most reliable lines, there will be some lemons. Some ovens will fail with shattered door glass, circuit-board burnouts, etc. People who experience those failures are likely to be vociferous. So read those posts and conclude that no product is worth buying? We hear that, when service techs get called to fix ovens, the problem is "often" ascribed to damage from self-cleaning. But how often is "often?" And, what is the percentage of the ovens that need servicing of any kind? Is it 5% or 10% or what? Whose product lines have lower risks? For the most part, we consumers cannot find hard numbers. We know is that there is a risk but you really cannot calculate the odds of how likely we are to have the problem. Sometimes, the perception is in how you state the odds. One person might see that 95% of oven x owners never report a problem and think those are good odds. Somebody else looks at the same numbers, sees that there are hundreds (or thousands) of problems and think "what if it were me" and concludes the risks are (a) unnacceptable or (b) require insurance and back-up systems. For most of us, though, without real numbers, It seems that the best we can do is what is being done here: look for reassurance that a particular product does not have a reputation for unusually high rates of failure as turned out to be the case with those Whirlpool ovens. I bought a GE dual fuel stove in 2000 and ran self-cleaning every couple of months for 12 years. Then some or all of the oven circuit boards failed. The failure happened a month or so after the last self-cleaning cycle. Did self cleaning kill the boards? The servicer who looked at it said it might have been but it might have been something else. Appliance life surveys and studies from a few years ago suggested that the average lifespan for electric ovens and stoves was 13 years (meaning half last a lot longer and half do not). It was just the odds. Does that make GE terrible because my particular stove lasted a little less than average? I hardly think so. (What did tick me off was the astronomical cost of the replacement boards, but that is hardly a problem peculiar to GE.) In that vein, I am curious why you think this forum is "so against GE Monogram and GE in general." Seems to me that there is much positive said here about some GE products, particularly cooking products, and especially the induction models. There certainly has been a lot of negative opinions about GE fridges from when GE was outsourcing production and customers were seeing a greater than one-in-five failure rate in the first five years of ownership. (That number came from the only readily available source on product reliability that I have found which is the annual membership survey results from Consumer Reports.) So, is the problem for you that there just is not much discussion of GE Monogram? If so, that just means nobody has started a discussion of them. Let me suggest that you start your own thread. Maybe somebody will have a way to fix your otherwise very satisfactory Gagg oven or can tell you about the Monogram FD oven you are eying....See Morekerrybh37_yahoo_com
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