Kenmore Ovens Reviews

Sorry, this was the worst appliance I ever owned. The enamel was thin and we chipped it right away with normal use. The oven igniter broke within the year and we had to light it with a torch. The door started corroding from water drops that would drip down when we used the hand towel on the oven door handle. It is currently in our trailer waiting to go to the dump. I'm sticking with Whirlpool brand, which is a higher quality product that we replaced this one with.

Oven range, refrigerator, dishwasher, and microwave… Complete set… Garbage. Microwave door switch failed, refrigerator ice machine worked for less than a year, dishwasher drain pump and rack rollers failed, oven shuts off randomly while we’re cooking, on and on… All garbage. I will never consider another Kenmore appliance.

We gave away our Kenmore dual oven because I would have felt guilty selling it. Couldn’t run both ovens at once unless on low heat or stove would kick out. The stove top was either too cold to melt butter, or would pulse and blaze so hot it would ruin frying pans. Best day ever was the day we hauled it out. Friends had the same stove, exact same issues, they sold their whole house just to get away from it!

I've had my Kenmore gas oven for 15 years, it's been solid for all 15 years. All the negative reviews are about the electric Kenmore's with the self cleaning feature. As with any purchase everyone should do their research before they buy anything. I've had nothing but good experiences with Kenmore products.

Our Kenmore electric range is crap! This range should be protected under the lemon law. It was less than four years old when the oven stopped working. We had it expensively repaired and now, a year later, it is doing it again. We can not even use our Kenmore oven and it is five years old! Kenmore is impossible to reach and they will not get back to you and Sears will only try to sell you a warranty package for $60 a month. Over a thousand dollars wanted on a huge piece of junk. Not only that, but how inconsiderate to manufacture such a huge, useless, non-recyclable product that is going to end up in a landfill. They say they care, but they don't.

I find a lot of people are having problems with this oven, especially after they use the self clean. For some reason it fries the relays on the top oven. It starts to work sporadically and won’t maintain consistent temperatures. Also if you run both ovens at the same time it will often cause the oven to go into error mode at which point you have to either pull the oven out from the wall and unplug it or if it manages to get hot shut off the breaker at the panel for a few minutes.

I had my electric Kenmore oven for maybe 2 years and one of the big burners kept just turning itself up to high heat when it was set to medium. The first time I completely burned my food because I just had it set to medium and had my time set. Then the second big burner randomly works and then doesn't and you have to wiggle the burner. They are removable so you can clean underneath so I don't understand the problem. I've only had this thing about 5-6 years. I bought it brand new. I had my used oven for over 10 and I don't know how long the previous owners had it before that. I wish I remembered the manufacturer!!

Purchased our home about 6 months ago and 3 weeks ago we had an incident with our stove. We have a Kenmore range model number: 790.97453804. I had put the range in "cleaning mode" (mind you, we had absolutely NO issues with this oven prior to this happening) for the first time and the front glass door exploded across our kitchen. Thank God no one was near the stove or else it could have done some serious harm to them. I called Sears right away and I have been going around and around with them about replacing the CLEARLY defective oven. They insisted that someone come out and evaluate before granting a replacement. The technician came out, CONFIRMED it was a manufacturer defect and then demanded that he be paid the $99 fee to come to our house to pretty much state the obvious.

Do not use the self clean option. It overheats and fries the control panel. We are thankful they have controls in place to prevent fire. Too bad it burned out control panel of 5 year old stove. Pay $600 to fix or buy new?

I’m 67, owned several electric ovens and this range/oven is the absolute worst! Can’t keep clean; glass shows every fingerprint, glass doors on oven allow leaks between glass requiring a complete disassembly, oven temp is off & either burns or undercooks. Exhaust is before backsplash & smokes inside kitchen! Do not buy or you will regret it. Looked beautiful for about a month. Range top requires razor blade to remove spills & scratches show. Hate it!