GE Profile slide-in induction stove smokes at higher temps

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My GE stove was installed May, 2024 and the induction top is fine but the oven creates problems. After reading, if you have any tips/thoughts, please let me know! Every time I use broil, or bake (usually with uncovered chicken/turkey or a fatty food) at over 400 degrees the oven smokes and sets off the smoke alarm. It is a smart oven but convection bake is not available unless I enable smart features. Convection roast works and also smokes at higher temps. I decided not to use self-clean after reading about problems with electronics. Have never used steam clean. Tried to hand clean once with a baking soda solution. The higher heat cooking seems to always leave behind a powdery grey/white ash(?) which I would have expected from any heat self-clean. I would appreciate ideas/tips for avoiding the smoking and for oven clean up. In 2024, roasting a spatchcocked turkey on high heat was a mess, resulting in my having to open my kitchen door and windows in freezing weather to vent smoke. I do know that the stove vents directly to the outside, but due to the way the house was built, the venting pipe run is longer than is best and with at least two bends. It works, but apparently not as strongly as would be best, even at highest setting. Perhaps I need to get a fan installed at the vent exit to pull the smoky exhaust air through more strongly? I never had any such bad smoking issues with my old gas stove and the high temp self clean worked great, so this issue is frustrating. Thanks!

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Monique
last month
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Stoves do not vent externally. Vent hoods do. Do you not have, and use, an overhead ventilation hood? Because that is what gets rid of normal oven behavior creating normal oven byproducts. Cooking fatty meats at high temperatures will always create greasy smoke that leaves greasy residue on everything it touches. Ergo, overhead ventilation.
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blubird
last month
Have you tested your oven temp with an oven thermometer?
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Diane Kleber
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last month
Hi Monique, Thanks. So I do have a decent Broan overhead vent hood but apparently it's twin fans are not strong enough to effectively vent this newer stove under certain conditions--the amount of smoke under higher heat cooking that comes out when I open the oven door is much more than ever occurred with my old gas stove. I have a long run of physical ducting. The ducting must go from the hood directly down to the basement for a run of 6+/- feet, make a turn, and then run maybe 15 feet along the basement ceiling to the outside wall where there is a vent opening. This is because the stove is on an inside wall backing up to my first floor shower (bathroom and laundry room) and there's no other way to run a vent to the outside. Do you know if it's possible to install a separate stronger exhaust fan near the outside vent to pull the by products through? On the other hand, the idea of greasy residue coating the inside of the ducting seems a problem and I wonder if I can get a new stronger hood with better filtering material that has something to absorb some grease. If you have any suggestions, let me know!
kaseki
last month
All ventilation that involves effluent transport to the outside requires make-up air (MUA), whether incidental, passive, or active (with blower). The air flow rate that exits from a ventilation path is determined by the blower's fan curve (cfm vs pressure drop across the blower). Pressure drop across the blower includes house pressure vs. exterior pressure. So without some deliberate MUA, or open windows, you may be gagging the ventilation. The fan curve determines how low the flow has to be to work with the pressure drop being caused by the ventilation.

In any case, the cloud of smoke from broiling or roasting will overwhelm all but the highest flow rate/capture area/hood reservoir systems.

Review of hood and MUA topics here along with embedded reference material will help clarify the ventilation problem and general solutions.