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Hello:

I have unplugged my stove and am hoping someone can tell me what may be the problem.

I have a GE Profile Dual Fuel oven. My wife baked something the other day and the following morning had to bake a cake. When she opened the door she was greeted with a blast of hot air. Turn the unit on to warm up to 400 and the digital readout showed 324 degrees. Baked a cake, shut it off and re-checked a few hours later. Once again not dropping below 324.

This unit was one of the GE Profile units on the recall list for the wiring overheating. This was repaired about 3 months ago by GE.

My question is... could a bad bake element be causing this or is it more problematic? We do not show any error codes and after talking to my wife she said that the bake element is chunky on the one side.

Thanks in advance

[denman]

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My question is... could a bad bake element be causing this or is it more problematic? We do not show any error codes and after talking to my wife she said that the bake element is chunky on the one side.

I tried to find a wiring recall that involved the oven but could not find anything.
I did find a wiring recall but it involved the gas cook top.

It could be just the element. What can happen is that the element can short through to the holder or feet (if the element has them). Depending how this happens the bake element then gets 120 volts all the time so is on at half heat all the time.

Also could be that a wire has shorted to the frame.

The above assumes that the element is not on at full heat (bright red).
If the element is on full then it may be that the relay contacts on the control board have welded together. This could be cause by arcing of the bake element where it is chunky.

In any case if the insulation ceramic on the element has bulged/melted, it requires replacement so I would try that first.