New cooker smells and seems to start by itself

Bigphil1474

OP, our combi cooker with electric ovens and grill has a fan which comes on when the grill part is turned off after use - the instructions say to leave the grill door open until the fan switches off. It's for cooling the grill down. Only happens if we grill for more than 10 minutes. Are you using the oven on the grill setting? Sounds like yours has similar fan cooling as mine, so I'd suggest you keep the grill door open after switching off until the fan goes off. 

TELLIT01

Our built in fan oven had the same problem with the smell.  The user guide said it would burn off in a few hours.  After 3 months and no improvement the oven was replaced.  Even the new one took about a month for the smell to stop and we were on the verge of sending that one back too.  We had been in contact with the supplier throughout and they were supportive.

When we have the top oven on (non-fan) air does blow out through it and I assume that is a safety measure.  When either oven is switched off, the fan blows intermittently until it has cooled.

another_casualty

rustywallet said:

So this is what happens. Oven is switched on for about 15 mins. Oven is switched off - all is quiet. Then 5 minutes later the oven starts up again and gets even hotter, then after about 5 mins it switches itself off leaving the oven very hot.

Could it be that it is a fan cooling the internals of the cooker - which then makes the oven hotter?

Thanks.

This to me sounds very dangerous if I'm reading this correctly . 

Having the oven starting on and off on its own accord sounds like a fire waiting to happen !
If this is the case , then I'd recommend getting it replaced asap and not use .

From what I remember in the past with such appliances , the idea was to turn on system without cooking anything for a short time to get rid of the smell and wear it in .
This cooker sounds Dodgy on so many levels . 

The company you purchased the product are the ones to contact - not the manufacturer !
As mentioned , it may be worth having a word with the card issuer / credit card co you paid with should the retailers get stroppy . 

What @freebear says could be a possibility with protective film on the door perhaps?

dander

I have a Stoves freestanding cooker. The smell did take quite a while to burn off, but it went eventually. Can't tell you how long - I just used the cooker rather than doing specific burn off sessions - it never affected the food. 
It does also have a fan that keeps going after I've turned the oven and/or grill off, I've never given it any thought, just assumed it's some sort of cooling mechanism.

DRP

my oven does similar , turning on and off 'randomly'. I haven't established what the reason or pattern is for this. I am concerned it is dangerous.

For the time being I don't set the clock which prevents the oven powering on (either manually or 'accidentally'). This might be an option if you are concerned about safety. My oven is an Electrolux EOC5440

TELLIT01

With our first oven, our eyes would start burning within a few minutes of switching it on, and that would spread to rooms upstairs.  With the second oven it was only the smell, which did eventually stop.

rustywallet

dander when your fan goes on, can you tell me if you can feel cool air? Because when mine goes on by itself it is very hot air.

rustywallet

It all seems very odd. And that so many people have smelly cookers and cookers that seem to switch themselves on...

Bendy_House

Hi Rusty.

For an actual oven to turn itself on is very unusual. I'm struggling to think of any scenario which would, in practice, cause this to happen.

Presumably it would require the oven selector switch and the oven's thermostat to be somehow be by-passed, and that would be a hell of a short circuit, and seemingly one that only happens occasionally and to no other obvious detrimental effect?

So, very unlikely.

Far more likely is that it's as explained by others above - your oven has a casing-cooling fan as well as an oven circulating fan inside it, and in your model this is independently controlled by a 'stat.

When your oven is being used, this 'stat will automatically fire up the cooling fan. When the oven is turned off, the cooling fan will keep on running until its set 'cooling' trigger temp has been reached, and then it'll turn off. What can happen then is that the remaining heat in the ovens and the fabric of the casing continues to be released as the cooling effect has been removed - the temp builds up until it trips the cooling fan 'stat again. This cools the oven to get rid of the rest of that residual heat, and it'll turn off again.

Ie, it's all normal behaviour.

Your top oven is a 'static' - no fan - type with elements and a grill? How many elements does it use for 'oven' setting - two? (A hidden bottom element and/or the grill is common.) Ok, it should be relatively easy to figure out whether these elements are actually coming on after the main oven has been turned off; if you run the main oven as normal, and the miscreant fan comes back on after the oven has been off for a while, blowing out hot air seemingly from the top oven, then open that oven and press summat like a folded-up piece of kitchen paper against the grill element (obviously being held in summat ouch-proof) and that should indicate whether the element has actually come on. If you have a hidden bottom element in that top oven, then drip a few drops of water on its floor - if it goes 'sizzle', then it could be on. If it evaporates slowly, then it's almost certainly residual main oven heat.

The smell is a different issue, and that will likely just require a bit more time to sort. Meanwhile, cook things inside sealed cooking bags

Risteard

Are you sure it's not a self-cleaning oven? That would explain why it runs at a high heat after use.