amana oven taking forever to heat up

[knight_yyz]

I have the amana AER5815RCS and suddenly it will not warm up. Thanksgiving day I have a 25 pound turkey and the barely over 1 year oven has taken about 2 hours to hit 350F. Stove works fine, oven will only hit 350 in convect mode, normal bake mode wont go past 180F. Any suggestions?

[Jake]

When you have it in bake, does the bottom element get red hot and then shuts off at 180?

Jake

[knight_yyz]

I do not see a red glow, but that may be because the bottom element is hidden under a metal sheet. My wife says she has seen it glow red in the past through the small openings in the sheet metal

[knight_yyz]

I took out the bottom element and took a reading. My ohmeter does not have an x1 setting. I tried a reading at 200 and there was no reading, 2000, no reading, 20k no reading, 200k no reading, 2000k a reading of about 1200 but not stable. I assume that this means the element is toast?

[Jake]

Yup, bad element.

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Jake