On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:58:45 -0800, Walter Spector
> wrote:

>Good idea. Glide racks, in particular, will be ruined if they are
>left in the oven during self-clean. And even regular racks will
>lose their nice shiny finish.

What's a "glide rack"? And, for that matter,what's a "regular rack"?

Stainless steel racks will be dramatically affected, but they are,
IMO, vastly inferior to porcelain-coated steel racks. Warping is a
much bigger problem with SS racks than loss of finish.

Porcelain-coated racks work just fine after hundreds of self-cleaning
cycles with just a dab of oil, as already mentioned.

I don't buy stoves with anything other than porcelain-coated racks,
unless I know I can buy porcelain-coated replacement racks from the
manufacturer in question. This is just part of the shopping process.

-- Larry