Households that want gas burners on top and a steady electric oven below, without paying 800 Series prices, end up looking at the HDS5057U. This 500 Series freestanding range is 30 inches wide and holds a 2.8 cu ft electric convection oven. Compared with the 800 Series, the savings come mostly from cooktop hardware and a shorter list of modes, while the oven still keeps its temperature well.
Wear tends to turn up in a few small places. The oven temperature sensor can drift, which makes baking less consistent. Igniters on the burners you use most wear out first, and the oven lamp can burn out inside a recessed housing that has to be opened with care.
On a visit we begin with the sensor, because it affects every meal, and then move to the igniters and the lamp.
On most Bosch ovens the glass lens unscrews and the bulb swaps out, but only with the oven cold and the power switched off at the breaker. A lens that has seized from repeated heating can break if you force it, so call us if it will not turn.
Set an oven thermometer on the middle rack, choose 350 degrees and wait twenty minutes. If the thermometer and the display disagree by a wide margin, the sensor is the likely cause, not your imagination.
Normally the ones you light every day. A longer series of clicks before the flame catches is the early sign, and replacing an igniter is a quick, inexpensive repair.
Book in about a minute, or call the desk. Same-day windows inside the Loop on most days, next-day across the rest of Houston.