Interesting, depending on ambient room temps, laundry products can go as high as 157F, and that only applies to metal surfaces on laundry.

And note the word STEEL in the earlier post. Glass is allowed to go quite a bit quite a bit more. Why? Because the ability for glass to transfer heat, it's thermal conductivity, is less than than that of steel.

Laundryvet

You also have to realize that by the ANSI/UL standard there are also allowable "unregulated surfaces" that do not have a temerature limit.
The surface directly above the oven vent, the cooktop surface to name a couple.

So it's not so simple to say any steel surface temperature.

Also UL is not the only testing agency. Several appliances use ETL as a testing agency.

@jakvis: If you reread, youâÂÂll see I mentioned ETL in the initial post. Although a competitor of UL, ETL tests to the same exact standard as UL (again ANSI Z21.1 (Household Cooking Gas Appliances)).

You are correct: oven vents, cooking grates and burners are not held to the 152 F.

The oven door, oven knob panel and âÂÂkick plateâ (panel between door and floor) are absolutely tested in accordance to the 152 F temperature limit for bare stainless steel.

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Lots of rumblings and ruminations regarding the excessive heat of a particular manufacturer's range doors and kick plates.

No dealers, or even owners, are willing to step up and post results of the simple aforementioned heat test.

Wonder why that is?

I realize this is a old thread... I am struggling with Samsung to get an answer on our new convection double range. At 400 degrees for an hour the top of the ss door behind the handle is so hot I'm worried someone will get burned. The front edge of the cooktop is also very hot. Is this common or could we have a faulty door that isn't insulated enough?

Is it possible the door is not shut tight - that was the case with my friend's Frigidaire - same problem