For about a month. The oven isn't accurate and the brain isn't working correctly. Out comes the repairman. He fusses around with the stove and says he has to order some parts and he'll be back. He brings back and installs the brain and then he informs me that if I want accurate baking I need to buy an expensive stove. He goes on to tell me that stoves can take up to TWO HOURS to reach a steady temp. What kind of hogwash is that?
End of summer rolls around and I'm canning some cabbage for cole slaw. Just as the timer goes off, I smell burning electrical. I get the jars out of the steam canner and onto a towel. Run outside and switch the breaker to the stove off (you can tell where my priorities are).
Call the repairman out again and he says the burner connect has melted. I shouldn't be using it so much. Huh? I guess I didn't get the memo where it says how much you should use a burner. As he's fussing with it, the burner itself goes. Great. Now I've got a new connector but no burner. I get the "I'll be back speech again" and I tell him, I don't need you to return, just mail me a new burner.
While I wait on this stuff, I call Sears and tell them I am NOT a happy camper! They say there is nothing they can do. Well, I know different. My mommy didn't work for them for nothing. I pick up the phone and call corporate. By gum, the stove's a lemon and I am not happy with it. They replace the stove with an upgraded model. ~~sigh~~ It's a piece a c**p! Burner connection over heats and melts. We replace it. Then we have a power outage and the surge when the power comes back on melts the brain. A week later a burner arc's and misses my hand by less than an inch!
I go looking for an OLD electric stove. One that isn't made out of tin foil and plastic. I find one . . . sit down and hold on to your hat. $6,000! That's right SIX followed by three zeros! I don't think so.
I'm back to looking for a gas stove. OMG! They are tin foil and plastic too. So, I go looking for an OLD gas stove. Oh yeah, they are even pricier than the electric stoves.
I have an epithani. Appliance junk yards. Wahoo! I find my stove. It's a gas stove. They had an electric stove but I'm not buying an electric stove that has been sitting out in the rain and snow. Ah not!
Isn't it pretty? Gotta center griddle, which I love. Has simmer burner plates. Two ovens plus I have a wall oven, watch out baking time. Only one problem. I should I say one more problem since this whole thing has been a comedy of errors. I have the stove but I can't use it. Go figure. It is soooo big it won't fit in the kitchen so we have to remodel the whole blooming kitchen. DH is not a happy camper, but I am since now I get the shelving built for my wicker baskets. We're almost there and within a couple of weeks I will have my stove.
JUST A NOTE: I found out that Sears has their stoves built by Electrolux. GE doesn't make them anymore and hasn't for a few years. I complained to Sears and then I sent a letter to Electrolux telling them about the quality of their products. I got a letter back from Electrolux that said "sorry, it isn't our problem, it is the exclusive responsibility of Sears" I sent an answer saying I hadn't asked them to do anything, just informing them of the quality, or lack thereof, of their product. I get a second letter back stating "Thank you for contacting Electrolux Major Appliances. We apologize for the inconvenience. Unfortunately, you will need to direct your concerns to the offices listed below: Sears . . ." Hmmmm, I need to address my concerns to Sears over the lack of quality in a product that Electrolux produces? Guess who lost a customer for any of the dozen or so companies they've bought up -- Frigidaire, Gibson, Kelvinator, Eureka, Philco, Tappan, White-Westinghouse.
