Upper micro/convect bake combo oven is horrible
Submitted by CLandTL -
11/25/2024
Dario our LG repair man did a a thorough job troubleshooting our microwave/convection bake oven combination. He swapped out the sensor and motherboard because it appeared they were not communicating properly. For some reason when the engineers designed it they decided that the convection bake oven temperature should fluctuate approximately 30. We set the oven temp to 350 and using an oven thermometer we bought at Amazon and his more sensitive professional thermometer discovered that it took over 25 minutes for the oven temperature to reach 330 even though the temperature on the oven itself reported it was at 350 approximately 5 minutes after turning on the oven. But more importantly once the oven reached 330 it then started lowering the temperature by over 20 and then proceeded to fluctuate between the two temperatures. Once the door was opened the oven lost approximately 75. This is totally unacceptable and as far as we are concerned it is considered a major design flaw. The engineers need to go back to the drawing board and then get us either a software or firmware update. Dario thought that the engineers mightve been trying to do the auto adjust for us since it is a convection bake oven. There is nowhere for us to cancel this possible auto adjust feature for the upper oven. We would need to guess what temperature to set it. But still the fact that it fluctuates up and down makes it impossible to bake a cake. It is also not possible to use it to roast vegetables. So as far as we are concerned we do not have a double oven.
And the fact that it actually takes 25 minutes to heat up when the lower oven only takes about 7 means that LG should not be able to give this oven an energy star rating. We think the engineers really dropped the ball on this. And it begs the question did anybody actually test this oven? I would give it 0 stars if I could.
Originally posted on lg.com
No, I do not recommend this product
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