<p>I have a GE Profile gas range, which I hate. None of the burners heat evenly. Also, once the oven reaches the desired temperature, the reported temperature never changes, no matter how long you leave the door open. Are all ovens with the electronic controls like this? And the “convection” feature is sort of a joke.</p>
<p>My parents put in a Sub Zero back in the early 60s and it was trouble-free throughout my childhood. (I’m sure one contributing factor was the fact that the compressor was in the basement.) They finally replaced it more than forty years later, not because it didn’t work, but because the plastic interior was starting to crack. Of course, the replacement has been nothing but trouble. :(</p>
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<p>No. Our electric Thermador wall oven with electronic control panels can lower the inside temperature without the need to open the door (of course, if I open the door, it speeds things up). Convection works fine, but I’m not convinced that the roasts prepared in half the time taste the same, therefore, I rarely use the convection feature. That said, unless you have an electronics hobbyist in the house, I do not recommend Thremador wall ovens. One day I noticed that the numbers on the display became barely visible, and almost disappeared over the course of the next few weeks. DH took the panel apart and found a dead capacitor (50 cents at R-S). Otherwise, the repair would have cost us close to $500 for a new panel plus labor. I just noticed that the display is going bad again. Time for a trip to R-S!</p>
<p>What I mean is when I open the oven door to take something out the display reads the same temperature but I know that the oven has lost heat. It can “count up” when it is preheating, but isn’t smart enough to “count down” when the temperature drops.</p>
<p>My parents, who were appliance aficionados before it was fashionable, had a Thermador wall oven. It was also installed in the early sixties and still working perfectly when they sold the house a few years ago. 
(After the refrigerator experience they decided to leave well enough alone.)</p>
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We have a 10 year old SubZero fridge, and it has needed 4 major repairs in 10 years. None covered under warranty, naturally.</p>
<p>I do like it, and it looks really nice, but I don’t think it was worth the money.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the 20 year old washing machine keeps chugging along, the 20 year old fridge in the basement is chugging along. We did have to get a new dryer a few years ago, the old one finally died after almost 40 years.</p>
<p>I’ve mentioned this on CC before, but when we bought our 1947 home back 25 years ago, it had all the original appliances, including a 1960 dishwasher. ALL of the appliances worked great. Then in '97 we did a remodel and replaced everything. Since then, with the exception of the cheap-0 oven we bought at Sears, all of the appliances have failed and been replaced AGAIN,— the SubZero, the Monogram cook top, the nightmarish Fisher Paykel dishwasher, the Toshiba microwave…you name it. Wish I had the old stuff back. :(</p>
<p>1moremom, my Thermador oven does count down; even when I quickly put a large dish or a roast in it, the display shows temperature drop, but then it heats back up to the preset temp. It is a very nice oven, but the design of the control panel could have been better (capacitors drying out every 5-6 years - WTH??).</p>
<p>It seems like the majority of the problems with new appliances is in the electronics; I wish there were more options with old-fashioned controls.</p>
<p>Hello, This is Wendy at GE. I am sorry to hear of the difficulties you have had with your appliances. We would like to see what we can do to help you on this. Please e-mail us at <a href="mailto:eresponse@ge.com">eresponse@ge.com</a> with the model and serial numbers of each of the mentioned appliances and any other details and we will check it out.</p>
<p>I just googled, and what do you know - there is a Wiki article on “capacitor plague”! LOL. Apparently, some capacitors manufactured in the late 1990’s through mid-2000’s have been filled with wrong electrolytes. Such capacitors still pop up in electronics…</p>
<p>Well, I like the job my oven does, so I’m not going to replace it, and the capacitor replacement is not a big deal for DH.</p>
<p>1moremom, knob-controlled appliances have all sorts of problems, too…</p>
<p>BB, Would you buy your Thermador again? (We are hoping to build a smaller house now that we are empty nesters.)</p>
<p>This is why I hang on to my (getting to be vintage) crock pots.</p>
<p>1moremom, although my appliances are older, and one can never enter the same river twice, I would seriously consider their ovens and cooktops, but I would not touch their dishwashers with a 9-foot pole (they are made by Bosch). My white enamel/ removable cast iron grates gas cooktop is a breeze to keep clean and does a fantastic job, and I like the wall oven (despite the capacitor problem) that produced perfect Thanksgiving and Chrismas turkeys 12 years in a row. Our appliances came with the house almost 13 years ago, and at that time there were no Thermador fridges, so I do not have any opinions about their refrigerators.</p>