My gas oven will not heat up above 300 degrees and

Hello,

The most probable reason the oven isnt heating very well is because of a weak igniter,since that igniter is weak its having a hard time fully opening the gas valve so the flame is very small and thusly not producing much heat,by replacing the igniter the gas will flow properly and heat to a high tempature.


GENE

The door will not unlatch until the oven temperature cools down to about 300 degrees.It can take several hours.

what is your oven if is gas or electric, if is gas easy to preheat by using lower heating element, if electric? that your unit have convection? or not? coz some probelm of the oven is, 1 if the oven is no convection or your oven is single heating in upper element,if your oven have a timer and cut off in 15minute? dont use timer,use a manual timer by it your self,if you want to reach the degrees that you want check your oven if der a lower and upper heating element with convection function,that the one is the most easy way to reach the degree that you want to reach.

Hi,
If your electric oven is not heating then you probably have a bad heating element in your oven. This is not that hard to fix yourself...
Check out this tip that I wrote about the Oven not heating problem..

Oven Problems Electric Oven is Heating Slowly or Poorly
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heatman101

More than likely, its your oven thermometer thats taking a half hour to read correctly. The oven is probably getting there sooner. If you had a digital thermometer, the read would come quicker. So save your money,nothing wrong with your stove.

Hi, Upon reading your post I immediately thought of a bad ignitor for the oven, but I am not sure whether you have a gas oven or a conventional electric range. So...If it is gas, I'd suggest replacing the ignitor for the hot surface ignition. If it's electric the bake element may be at fault although most range's use the broil in the preheat, so it should still climb up to 400, it would just take a really long time. Maybe you can clarify if it's electric or gas and I can try to move you forward from there. Macmarkus :)

REPLACE HEAT SENSOR

my oven does the same thing. i do not believe that the oven is electric though. the only electric part on my oven is the control board. if the oven was electric it should heat up much sooner than that,

Check the temperature sensor with a OHM meter.
It should read 1100 ohms. If not, replace it.
Otherwise make sure the glow bar ignitior is coming on.
Ignitors however can glow and still be bad.

sometimes when they get hot that is when they fail