Our oven was a cheap but new base Home Despot model when we moved in. That was over 15 years ago. It has been declining for a while: one burner doesn't consistently light and the plastic over the "set the temperature/time" arrows broke. The up arrow, a couple years back. The down arrow, just recently. We bypassed those mostly-minor issues by 1) having a set of matches nearby (which we almost never have to use) and 2) ripping out the plastic and touching the sensors directly. (Which does mean you have to make sure your finger isn't wet.)
However, the motherboard has been sporadically going haywire. Saturday it just went on the fritz completely for about five minutes and then recovered. We took that as a final warning and are looking to replace the entire oven before Thanksgiving.
Unfortunately, we have very specific space requirements. The width is standard but the depth is problematic; our largest kitchen cabinet won't open if the oven is too deep. This could have been addressed with better design by the guy who redid and sold us our place, but we're not ripping out and replacing all the cabinets.
The wife has been researching. Sunday we went to an appliance store to look at a few of the models. What we found:
- She would like to get away from the "controls on the back" style. I don't care as much but am fine with that.
- Neither of us care about connecting the oven to our phones, and in fact would prefer to not have one that does.
- We're interested in upgrading the quality, but the one we really like best is a chef-quality one that is significantly more than double my mental maximum budget. I suppose we could afford it, but I'd rather spend the extra money on the Europe trip we want to take next year for our 20th anniversary.
- Dammit, this is apparently a mutually exclusive set of options.
So the search continues.
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