washerdude
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We had a bit of a mishap with our GE JCS830SM4SS a few nights ago.
We were using a baking sheet that just wasn't deep enough, resulting in some grease/fat to spill onto the oven bottom. I cleaned up anything that spilled onto the surface however some of it looked to have made it through the gaps around the ovens bottom cover - where the heating element lives.
I figured it wasn't that big of a deal and decided to run the oven empty at about 375F to let it burn off anything residual after cleaning up the surface. About 30 minutes in, a strong burning odor was present along with tons of smoke. It got so bad that I had to shut off the oven despite the windows open and exhaust running. This continued long after the oven was shut off.
There was thick white smoke billowing out of the gaps along the bottom panel of the oven interior towards the left, mind you this is 30 minutes after shutting it off.
A couple hours later, I tried again and not even 5 minutes in smoke began building up again.
Is there any way to remove the bottom panel? In the past I've owned a Frigidaire/Kenmore and Whirlpool, both of those had two screws which could be removed giving access to the heating element. This GE...I have no idea despite diagrams showing it is removable. How on earth does the panel come up?
We were using a baking sheet that just wasn't deep enough, resulting in some grease/fat to spill onto the oven bottom. I cleaned up anything that spilled onto the surface however some of it looked to have made it through the gaps around the ovens bottom cover - where the heating element lives.
I figured it wasn't that big of a deal and decided to run the oven empty at about 375F to let it burn off anything residual after cleaning up the surface. About 30 minutes in, a strong burning odor was present along with tons of smoke. It got so bad that I had to shut off the oven despite the windows open and exhaust running. This continued long after the oven was shut off.
There was thick white smoke billowing out of the gaps along the bottom panel of the oven interior towards the left, mind you this is 30 minutes after shutting it off.
A couple hours later, I tried again and not even 5 minutes in smoke began building up again.
Is there any way to remove the bottom panel? In the past I've owned a Frigidaire/Kenmore and Whirlpool, both of those had two screws which could be removed giving access to the heating element. This GE...I have no idea despite diagrams showing it is removable. How on earth does the panel come up?
