We were very proud of our Frigidaire Gallery Series Model CFEF372CB2 Glass Top Range when we got it new on March 21st, 2004. We celebrated spring and our tax refund with our first brand new stove, a $1000 gleaming black gem on sale for $850!In our 13+ years of marriage we had made do with used $75 stoves, with burner rings that would gather spills and crud and smoke and burn out. The ovens required harsh chemicals to clean them, and they usually lasted 3 or 4 years, with $15 or $20 repairs every now and then.
But no more of those problems now that we have this baby, no siree. The smooth glass top just wipes clean, and the oven is self cleaning, just set it and forget it.
And its a Frigidaire!
Our Frigidaire upright freezer was nearly 50 years old when we replaced it with a new, energy efficient one, and it still worked! We should have many, many years of reliable service from our brand new stove.
Yeah, right.
First off, the glass top is impossible to keep clean, even when using the recommended Cerama Bryte(tm) cleaner.
Then, several months ago, while cooking dinner, the oven control started beeping, flashing "F1" on its display, and the door lock came on, trapping our dinner inside. I had to cut and restore the power to the range in order to release the door. The error code indicated that the oven control required replacing. A check for the part found it was over $300, and we couldn't afford that at the time.
We found if we just didn't set the oven too high, it would still work well enough to cook a meal.
Slowly, the temperature threshold got lower and lower until 350 degrees was the maximum before it would fault.
Tonight it faulted, and will not reset.
The oven and cooktop is dead.
As a doorknob.
Constant beep like a flatline.
5 Years, 6 Months and 1 week old.
R.I.P. (rust in pieces)
Part # 31818530 is US$240 plus shipping, putting it over CAN$300, then labour.
Home Depot has a GE 30" range for $399.
You do the math.
DJW
We are now using a 'modular cook station.'
Two hotplates and a toaster oven.
Two hotplates and a toaster oven.
3 comments:
Looks as if it is also on sale, too!
Turns out that was the U.S. site.
Nothing here under $500
DJW
This account of the oven story does nont include the rage-induced replacement of the $400 glass top. haha.
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