West Hartford Doctor Challenges GE On `Sabbath Mode’ Oven

This GE oven is equipped with Sabbath mode. Or Is it?

A two-year-old gas oven sits, like new, in the kitchen of a residence retired pediatrician and neonatologist Robert Harris of West Hartford uses only on Friday nights and Saturdays for the Jewish Sabbath.

It’s not the oven he thought he was getting, nor is it one he wants.

Harris, who paid Sid Miller’s Appliance of Bloomfield close to $600 for the oven, felt betrayed by both the store and General Electric for telling him the oven’s Sabbath mode complied with the needs of Jews observing the weekly Sabbath. Harris, like other observant Jews, does not start or stop any electrical device, whether a computer, phone or oven, on the Sabbath.

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