Setting your cabinetry aflame should not be considered a 'standard feature'.

Maybe charred is a bit too harsh. The side of the white cabinet door is now caramel colored :) I knew that this industrial grade stove would be low on insulation, and if this is the case, I can find a work around. I just want to know if they forgot some heat shield in my unit.

I also just realized that there's a separate appliance forum that might give me more responses. Hopefully there's a mod that can move this post. Otherwise, I'll double post. Still new to the forum!

Can you post a pic?

Here's a picture of the scorched door edge.

It looks like I can only upload one picture at a time, so here's a second picture of the door closed if people are curious about how close the door is when closed. I was surprised to see that the pictured door had the most clearance of the two but the most scorched.

The door finish is supposed to be some fully catalyzed conversion varnish.

I don't have a bluestar. But I remembered a similar thread in the appliances forum. Link below.

(The mods here don't ever move threads as far as I know. I would just cross-post in appliances if you want to--maybe note that it's a cross-post.)

Here is a link that might be useful: Appliance forum thread on Bluestar and cabinet

And I see there was a much longer thread in the same situation in this forum. Link below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Kitchen forum thread on bluestar and cabinet

Your range is too far back. Or the cabinets are too deep. One or the other. Which amount to the same thing. :-D. The entire door and gasket has to protrude beyond the cabinetry. Pull it forward, and order another cabinet door. That one won't scorch!

When I was range shopping, I noticed that the Bluestar's door gasket did not go all the way around the door but rather had a signifigant gap at the bottom. Could that be what is causing the heat to escape?

I have thermofoil cabs and mine actually melted. They are still under warranty and the cabinet company is sending me replacement drawer fronts and also a heat shield (not sure what that looks like yet.

I had to go check ours out. No scorching...

Thanks crl for the link! The cabinets are standard depth frameless. I don't doubt that moving the stove forward would help, but the stove installation specs said zero clearance. It's already set forward the thickness of the backsplash.

It's odd that others are have the same installation (crcollins) with the cabinet door overlapping the edge of the stove, and they don't have this issue.

I'm amazed deb's cabinet maker replaced the door. I guess I won't keep my hopes up and contact them as well as Bluestar next.

My oven doors protrude out further than the cab doors. No issue. So sorry about your cabinet. Definitely inch in forward.

Bluestar here, two years no problems.
It does look in the photo that your cabinet may be too far out in relationship to the range?

Zactly the same problem here. My range door clears the cabinet front. This is a couple of weeks after installing the cabinet front. See the brownish area on the edge of the pullout front? There was also "melting" of the edge of the cabinet box as well. Installation instructions of the range did not specify a gap between cabinets and range or any special precautions.

Their ovens are supposed to be zero-clearance, no? so that shouldn't be happening. what does bluestar tek support say?