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title: "Oven element and broiler replacement"
description: "La Cornue oven element and broiler replacement — every vaulted gas oven on this make carries an electric broiler above it, and the electric ovens are…"
url: "https://la-cornuemiami.support/services/oven-element-and-broiler-replacement/"
date_modified: "2026-09-03"
Appliance type: "Ovens, Ranges"
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# La Cornue oven element and broiler replacement

### About elements and broilers on this make

Every vaulted gas oven here carries an electric broiler above it and the electric ovens are elements throughout, which means a range can lose browning and keep baking perfectly, or the reverse. Two circuits, two parts, and the symptom says which. Elements are measured cold and under load rather than inspected, and the terminals and supports are part of the job — that is where elements actually burn out, and a burnt terminal block will destroy a new element as efficiently as it destroyed the old one.

What this involves

Bake and broil are separate circuits and separate failures

Elements measured cold and under load

Element supports and terminals checked, because that is where they burn out

Establish which function is gone

Browning, baking or both. On a dual-fuel range this also tells us which side of the range we are working on.

Measure the element

Resistance cold and current under load. Open circuits are obvious; a partially failed element is not.

Check the terminals and supports

Where elements actually burn out, and where a replacement will fail early if the cause is left.

Fit and route it correctly

An element sitting against the cavity or fouling a shelf runner is a repeat visit.

Run both functions

Bake and broil, to temperature. Half a test finds half the problem.

### Only the top browns. One element or two?

One, almost certainly, and that is good news: the broil circuit works and the bake circuit does not. Tell us which function still works and the right part travels with us.

### Should you replace both while you are here?

Usually not, and we will not push it. Elements do not wear out in sympathy and the second one probably has years left. The exception is an oven where both have visibly discoloured on a range that has done decades — then doing both saves a second labor charge, and we will say so and let you decide.

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