General Electric Company Spectra Series Consumer Reviews - Page 3

Our GE Spectra was purchased from Lowe's about 4 years ago. Today, we have had the same problem with the heating element glowing red & white and spitting sparks. Turning the control knob off had no effect - had to turn off circuit breaker. This is dangerous and needs to be looked at before someone gets hurt.

One more oven fire - was using our GE Spectra oven when I noticed a sparkler effect on the lower element. The element was burning white hot and continued to burn even after turning the oven off. I had to pull the oven out and unplug it, the fire eventually went out. Glad I was home, not sure if my wife could have gotten the oven out to unplug it. Seems with this many complaints on the same model with the same issue, GE would attempt to fix the problem or assist owners in some way.

7/23/09 - I purchased my GE Spectra electric range in 2002. Today I was preheating it to 400 degrees and the heating element in the bottom of the oven burned out. It started burning and making a loud noise until it broke apart. I turned the oven off and unplugged it. The smoke alarm saved me from getting seriously hurt. While I was dealing with the smoke alarm in the hall, the whole black glass front exploded all over my kitchen floor.

The element in the oven has burned out 2x and cost us about 150.00 to replace. Then the range gets so hot when something is in the oven baking that it is dangerous. Has to be defective.

I, too, just experienced an oven fire on my GE Spectra the day before Christmas Eve! I've already had to replace the front burner on the stove top, and now this. I'm very concerned about the safety of this oven, and really hope GE considers issuing a recall.

I bought an GE Spectra gas range because most of the reviews at that time were very complimentary. It worked well until the warranty ran out and then the Bake button started going bad. I put up with it for a long time but finally had to replace the entire panel just to get a new bake button. This cost me over $200.00. I have a GE microwave that I have had for 15 years and it is still going strong. It seems that once GE started making things in Mexico, the quality went out the window.

I have a GE SPECTRA oven (which is approx. 5 years old) where the glass in the oven also exploded without reason.

Last night we have had the same problem with the heating element glowing red & white and spitting sparks. Turning the control knob off had no effect - I had to turn off circuit breaker. Today I turned the breaker on the oven heated up. Have came home to house that was damaged by a

Same here. We used it for Thanksgiving - heating element glowed red & white, would not turn off - had to turn off circuit breaker. Can't believe there's not a recall. This is def. product's liability issue.

I was recently cooking dinner and heard a loud sizzling noise from inside the oven. I saw the orange glow of sparks flying off the heating unit. Then a small flame emerged at which time I quickly shut off the oven but this did not extinguish the flame. My husband had to turn off the circuit breaker to stop the fire. After reading other negative reviews, I am surprised to learn that this was not unusual for this model. I cannot believe there have been no recalls for this oven! Unbelievable! Do yourself a favor and buy another brand.