GE Spectra (electric stove)

GE Spectra (electric stove)

I have a slightly used GE Spectra -- 2 years old. I have only toasted toast in this oven -- I use the cooktop occassionally. An entire coil started on fire while I was toasting toast. The entire coil completely burned out. The fire department had to come. This is virtually a NEW stove.

I had to extinguish it with a fire extinguisher -- and the stove is ruined, as far as I'm concerned. I do not trust it for any further use. I would recommend anyone who owns a Spectra be very, very wary of the coils.

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The same thing just happened to me tonight. It looked just as you described it and would not go out until I unplugged the unit. This is dangerous and I saw where others have had the same issues. Has anyone reported to GE and with any luck for a possible recall here? Please let me know. Thanks

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My wife turned on our GE Spectra oven to warm up for cooking dinner, and about 1 minute after turning on, she noticed a bright light coming from the window. We opened the door, and the lower element was on fire, like a welders arc. It was popping, snapping and even when I turned OFF the oven it kept sparking and popping. I had to kill the breaker and got a spray bottle to spray water on the point just before the arcing to kill the heat. Very dangerous. If I wasn't here, I don't know what my wife and 2 kids would have done, or how bad this could have gotten. I have never seen an oven do this before.

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I also have a GE Spectra electric freestanding range. It's either a JBP10, JBP26 or JBP30 (not sure) It's about 3 years old. About 1 year ago, the back right coil started popping and snapping, so I stopped using it. This week, the coil inside the oven caught on fire (electrical fire, not a fire due to food on the coil). Even when we shut off the stove, the fire and sparks did not shut off. Had to use fire entinguisher and shut off the breaker to get the fire & sparks to stop.

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I was warming up my Spectra oven to bake cookies last night (375) and looked down and also found the heating coil on fire. The fire looked like a candle at the end. Each part the fire touched broke and crumbled to the ranch floor. I pulled flour on it trying to put it out and that just burned though. This stove was about 3 yrs old and under very light use. I use the over, maybe once a month for short amounts of time. The only way to get the fire out was to unplug the stove. Very Dangerous!