What this Bosch vs LG comparison is based on#
This page counts federal incident reports and nothing else: 78 CPSC SaferProducts filings naming a component on a Bosch oven between 2011 and 2026, and 719 doing the same for an LG oven over the same years. Every share below is a share of one of those two totals. Neither total is a count of ovens sold, so neither column can be turned into a rate of anything.
Four rows, one direction#
Unusually for this set, the two records do not trade wins. On all four components the two corpora share, the Bosch share is the higher one: the control board at 9% against 5%, the heating element at 4% against 2%, the igniter at 3% against 1%, and the wiring or power cord at 3% against 2%.
A clean sweep looks like a finding, and it is worth being explicit about why it mostly is not one. Bosch's four rows are seven, three, two and two filings. Three of the four gaps disappear if two or three of those reports had been categorised differently, or never filed. The one that survives that test is the control board, where 4 points separates seven Bosch filings from LG's 36.
LG's column is flat#
The more durable observation is on the other side. LG's record has a leader — the control board at 5%, 36 of 719 — and then almost nothing that distinguishes the next four rows from one another. The heating element and the wiring or power cord sit at 2% on 13 filings each, the thermostat or sensor at 2% on 12, and the igniter at 1% on 10. The motor closes the column at 0%, three reports.
Bosch's record is shaped differently. Its top row is more than double its second, and only four component categories appear at all. LG's is a shallow slope with a long shoulder, which is what a larger corpus of a mostly electric appliance class tends to look like: the reported trouble spreads rather than concentrating.
The igniter row is the clearest case. It carries 3% of the Bosch reports and 1% of the LG ones — two filings against ten. In share terms that is the widest relative gap on the page; in absolute terms it is the thinnest evidence on the page. Both statements are true at once, and a comparison that only reported the first would be misleading.
Reading the pair#
For a technician the practical content is the same on either side: check the control board first, and expect the rest of the reported trouble to be spread thin across the heat path and the wiring. For a shopper the page gives less than it appears to, because a corpus of complaints carries no denominator and no ranking follows from it.
Bosch vs LG ovens: what the reports mention#
Both columns are shares of their own corpus, and the corpora differ in size. Bosch: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for Bosch ovens, 2011-2026, n=78. LG: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for LG ovens, 2011-2026, n=719. A difference no larger than one report on either side is marked "within one-report noise".
| Component mentioned | Bosch | LG | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control Board | 9% (7 of 78) | 5% (36 of 719) | 4 points more often for Bosch |
| Heating Element | 4% (3 of 78) | 2% (13 of 719) | 2 points more often for Bosch |
| Igniter | 3% (2 of 78) | 1% (10 of 719) | 2 points more often for Bosch |
| Wiring or Power Cord | 3% (2 of 78) | 2% (13 of 719) | 1 point more often for Bosch (within one-report noise) |
About the corpus: these are CPSC SaferProducts reports — incidents someone chose to report, not units sold — so the shares on this page are shares of the reports and never a failure rate. The corpus is weighted toward safety events: 12,007 of its 20,581 records (58%) are fire, smoke, burn or melt reports, which over-represents the components that burn and under-represents the ones that merely stop working.
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Bosch ovens: the reported component split#
Bosch ovens — every share in this table is a share of: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for Bosch ovens, 2011-2026, n=78.
| Component mentioned | Share of reports | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| Control Board | 9% | 7 of 78 |
| Heating Element | 4% | 3 of 78 |
| Igniter | 3% | 2 of 78 |
| Wiring or Power Cord | 3% | 2 of 78 |
Shares of reports, not failure rates — see the corpus note above.
LG ovens: the reported component split#
LG ovens — every share in this table is a share of: CPSC SaferProducts incident reports for LG ovens, 2011-2026, n=719.
| Component mentioned | Share of reports | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| Control Board | 5% | 36 of 719 |
| Heating Element | 2% | 13 of 719 |
| Wiring or Power Cord | 2% | 13 of 719 |
| Thermostat or Sensor | 2% | 12 of 719 |
| Igniter | 1% | 10 of 719 |
| Motor | 0% | 3 of 719 |
Shares of reports, not failure rates — see the corpus note above.
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How to use these numbers#
What this comparison can settle: which components the reported incidents of each brand actually concentrate on, for this appliance. What it cannot settle: which brand fails more often. That would need units sold, and no public source states it. Use the component split to plan for the repair each brand is most reported for, not to rank the two.
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