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Warning signs · Viking ovens

Is it normal that the fan runs after the oven is off?

Usually yes. That fan is not cooling your food, it is cooling the controls, and it keeps going until they are cool enough for it to stop. In a hot kitchen that takes a good while longer. It is only a fault when the fan never stops, and Viking Repair Pros of Los Angeles can sort that out.

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What you can see, what it means, what to do now

See it

The oven is switched off and dark, nothing is cooking, yet a steady rush of air carries on somewhere around the top edge of the door or the vent above it.

What it means

The control keeps its cooling fan running after a bake and after a clean because the electronics behind the panel sit in the hottest part of the appliance. The hotter the room, the longer it has to run to bring them down. Woodland Hills kitchens in August ask more of it than coastal ones do.

What to do tonight

Nothing, other than letting it finish. Open a window and let the kitchen shed its heat, then check back once the range front is cool to the touch. If it is still running the next morning, switch it off at the breaker and book a visit.

Still doing it after that? Call Viking Repair Pros of Los Angeles on (213) 652-7030. The $89 visit covers the fault-finding and comes off the repair.

Why the fan outlasts the heat

An oven sheds heat in every direction once you switch it off, and some of that heat travels forward into the strip where the controls live. The fan’s job is to keep pulling room air across that strip until it reads cool, so the fan is really following the room, not the recipe. Two identical ovens in Playa Vista and in Woodland Hills on the same afternoon will run for different lengths of time, and neither of them is broken.

Where this turns into a call is when the fan and the switch-off stop being connected at all: it comes on with the power rather than with the heat, or it never came on during a bake and the panel got hot instead.

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How long is too long?

There is no single number, because it depends on how hot the oven got and how hot the room is. The useful test is direction of travel: a fan that eventually stops on its own is behaving. One that is still going hours later, with the appliance cold to the hand, has stopped listening to anything.

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Birgit Halloran

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ovens and heating
Time served
24 years

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Tell us what the oven is doing. We will tell you what that usually is.

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