Arrgh. Our new Dacor oven was installed at remodel time 3 years ago.
It's been fairly reliable and consistent, however, the temp probe only
worked correctly for about the first year and a half. Then it began
acting up; when inserted into a cold-from-the-fridge meatloaf, for
instance, and the cold dish was placed in the oven, and the probe plug
inserted and set correctly via oven controls, many times the oven
would simply shut itself off after maybe a couple of minutes; other
times, it would go into a wild beep-flashing indicator-beep thing as
if something is Really Wrong; then it would sort of half-shut off,
with an abnormal display on the front panel showing. The cure is
always to simply unplug the probe, restart the bake, and then when the
food is quite warm, reinsert the plug into the...

Nicholas wrote:

I can't help you with the probe, (except, did you get wash water
in it at some point?), but...

We have a 4 yo Dacor Epicure range that has gone through its share of
igniter problems. They redesigned the igniters a couple of years ago,
and you might check whether yours are the newer ones or not. The old
ones look like the center electrode of a spark plug. The newer ones
have a little disk riveted on top. Our older ones were replaced with
the newer ones, and it helped a lot.

It is *real* important to keep the igniters, the brass rings, and the ring
seats clean.

I note that the current Dacor line has been even further redesigned in
this area.

W.