When oven is in bake, broil or self clean the vapor/moisture
formed goes through the door slots and between the window panes.
The vapor carries with it, grease from the foods or oven. When
the vapor cools the grease dries onto the glass and streaks appear.

If streaks have already appeared between the glass, the only
way to remove
is by cleaning between the 2 pieces of glass which involves
taking the door
apart. Service is recommended for this procedure and is covered
under the original one year warranty.

GE does not recommend you do this yourself.

Prevention: to help avoid this, wipe out the excess grease from
the oven
before any type of long baking/roasting period or putting
through a
self-clean cycle.

Cordially,
Gayle
GE Internet Respones Tea,

After removing several screws and discovering the glass was held in place by more hidden screws and clips, I decided that the glass cleaning would require more time than I was willing to dedicate to it at that time so I put it all back together. I do plan on doing it another day when I have more time though. I'll let everyone know how it goes.

Bonnie

While investigating the vent option mentioned above, I found three screws just below the glass. I removed them and the glass popped right off (I would recommend a second person holding the glass so it doesn't fall).

The glass was then EASY to clean and then replace with just those three screws to replace.

There is a "stop" to hold door open a few inches. You can feel where it is as you open the door. Just get to that point and lift it up. It will lift off its hinges.

The only thing I can think of that might be a problem with taking the door apart would be if it is a self cleaning oven and (as in an example above) all the insulation did not get replaced properly. It might reduce the efficiency of the cleaning process. Could also affect the ability to maintain a constant temp. But, if you have the patience to get it apart and back together again correctly, it certainly would be worth the price of the service call to do it yourself.

Thanks to all for the great tips and especially "Bomb" and Katbrauer.....I'm one delighted person that got a job done that I angst over for 6 months.

- leaving the door attached to its hinges, but taking it apart.
- remove the screws around the perimeter of the door. There were about 6 screws holding on a chrome strip all the way around the door. I was able to remove the 1 1/2" wide strip...but do this carefully because it is what holds the glass in place, and your glass may fall and shatter.
- My glass fascia did not fall; it was bonded to the four rubber standoffs. I carefully pried the glass off using a letter opener(!). The oven handle remained attached to the glass fascia for easy gripping.
- Now a number of screws holding the internal panel in place were revealed from the front of the oven door. Removing these allowed me to remove, from the internal side of the oven door, the metal panel with gasket that held the window assembly. Don't lose your screws or fiberglass insulation battens.
- My window assembly was a metal-wrapped box with two panes of glass. One corner of the metal box had a tab and slot, such that straightening the bent tab allows the box to open, releasing the two panes of glass. My panes were different material -- one darker than the other. Just get them back in the right order...
- clean the glass with soap and water; don't scratch it.
- dry it completely
- reassemble: put the metal strap box back together, bend the tab. Install in door, replace fiberglass, and the metal cover for the window. Screw in place. Now you can put the metal strip and fascia glass back in place (it can be helpful here to have another pair of hands; you don't want to drop the glass).

TaDa!

I truly feel that the seal is not adequate and is something that manufacturers should be looking at to improve.

I am not impressed as I feel it should not be happening. If it is, it should not be up to the customer to get out their screw drivers and struggle with cleaning something that is faulty to begin with.

We have been covering this spill it up with the dish towel like most others. Today I started to unscrew the oven door and couldn't budge it so I decided to google the problem and was ecstatic to find that I am NOT the only clutsy cook that managed to spill between the glass of my oven door. Like most others with the dryer lint brush and a wire hanger it looks great. I am so excited to show my husband what the bomb - now me - was able to do today.... will give you credit later . Thanks so much!!!! So happy :)

I have an Elite Sears SS stove that is about 9 years old. Several years ago I took the door apart and cleaned my 2 glass panels on each side. It was easy to do. It was a little springy getting it back together. I told my DIL about this and she decided to do it with hers. She had a lot of trouble because, one, she was 8 months pregnant, two, 5' tall (door about as big as she is, even pregnant), and three, the temp outside was over 100 degrees (no air, lives in Seattle). While I had a very easy time doing this job, she thought it "really sucked" doing this job (same door configuration).

I was given a Maytag Gemini double oven by some very generous friends who were gutting their kitchen. As sweet as the donation was, it was FILTHY! I have gone through 2 bottles of easy off (and 3 pairs of gloves, two face masks...).

As much as I loved having windows in my "new" oven - it didn't matter. I could not see a thing through them. With the Maytag Gemini (about 5 years old), I was able to unscrew the metal frame on the outside - which I realized was not attached to any sort of insulation, and I had much easier access to the three panels of glass - and noticed the metal bracket holding the glass was also not supporting any insulation. I took off one metal bracket and was able to clean each panel of glass completely. Huzzah! I can see inside!!