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If your oven consistently runs hot or cold, a standalone thermometer and the built-in calibration setting close most of that gap.

Clicking with no flame — or no clicking at all — usually comes down to a dirty igniter or gunked-up burner ports.

Self-clean locks the door by design, and it can stay locked if the cycle overheats or the latch motor stalls out. Here's the safe way to reset it.

Constant clicking with no flame means the igniter's glow is too weak to open the gas valve — a common, easily replaced failure.

When baking works fine but the broiler stays cold, the fault is isolated to the top of the oven — the upper element or broil igniter.

A frozen or blank touch panel is often nothing more than a lockout or a power glitch — not necessarily a dead control board.

The turntable spins and the light comes on, but food comes out cold — that points to the magnetron or another high-voltage part having failed.

Arcing inside the microwave points to metal, a scorched waveguide cover, or damage to the cavity itself. Stop using it until you've found the cause.

A turntable that refuses to rotate means uneven heating. The cause is usually simple: a misaligned tray, a worn coupler, or a dead motor.