ICYMI: Exploding Oven Doors, Laptops, EV Charging Speeds
Also last week at CR: What to know about cleaning gloves and ice cream scoopers, a hidden hearing aid feature you should use, and Father’s Day gift ideas
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- Home: Cleaning Gloves and Ice Cream Scoops
- Electronics: Laptops
- Cars: EVs
- Money: Father's Day Gift-Giving
- Health: Hearing Aid Features
- Product Safety: Exploding Oven Doors
- Latest Ratings
Our team of experts identified nearly 400 reports of range oven doors spontaneously shattering and asked the CPSC to investigate. We measured the processing power, display quality, and battery life of laptops for easy-to-read scores across more than 170 laptops and nearly 20 Chromebooks. How long does it take to charge a popular electric vehicle? Since automakers use confusing metrics to sound impressive, we calculated it ourselves. At CR, we test everyday essentials—even the ones that are less obvious, like cleaning gloves and ice cream scoopers. One of the best hearing aid features is one that no one is using. And we found some great picks to help you get ahead of Dad’s big day (June 21 is Father’s Day, pass it on).
Source: CPSC Source: CPSC
Oven doors are spontaneously exploding, according to our analysis of reports filed with the CPSC. Most of the stoves are made by Frigidaire.
In a 15-month stretch, the CPSC has received nearly 400 complaints about the glass in oven doors shattering spontaneously, resulting in more than 40 injuries, according to incident reports. CR has asked the CPSC to investigate the claims, but no recall has been announced yet.
What to know:
- Nearly 70 percent of the ranges cited in these incidents were made by Frigidaire.
- Other brands cited include GE, Whirlpool, LG, and Samsung.
While only around 10 of the ovens named were made by Samsung, as of this writing, Samsung is the only company offering free oven door repairs, regardless of warranty status.
We broke down each company’s response, which models may be affected, and how to report an incident to the CPSC and your oven’s manufacturer.
FYI: We’ve also updated the best French-door refrigerators. (You should know French-door refrigerators aren’t the most reliable, according to our data. Consider a top-freezer or bottom-freezer instead.)
Photos: Consumer Reports, Samsung Photos: Consumer Reports, Samsung
Laptops are pricier than ever, but the most compelling model we've tested recently is the budget-friendly MacBook Neo.
We have ratings for more than 170 laptops and nearly 20 Chromebooks, including the affordable and CR-recommended Apple MacBook Neo.
In the meantime, we’ve highlighted the best laptops of 2026, across types and uses.
- Windows laptop: Try the LG gram Pro.
- Travel laptop: Try the Asus Zenbook S 14.
- Laptop for content creators: Try the Apple MacBook Pro—and tag us in your next social video to tell us how much you love it.
For more, like our picks for budget laptops and Chromebooks, read our guide.
Automakers love to tout how fast their EVs charge, but they use confusing numbers. So we developed our own ranking.
Automakers often brag about how quickly their EVs go from almost empty to 80 percent full.
But since there’s no standard measurement for reporting on how quickly an EV can charge, it’s difficult to compare vehicles, says CR’s auto test development director, Alex Knizek.
To cut through the noise, CR ranks popular new EVs by the number of miles of range they add per minute of DC fast charging and per hour of Level 2 charging.
- We found new EVs that add 12 miles per minute or more at a DC charger (that’s fast), and new EVs that add 30 miles or more per hour at a 240-Volt Level 2 charger (that’s fast, too).
- For the slowest-charging new EVs at DC and Level 2 chargers, look here and here.
- In addition, check out our latest reporting on the EVs to buy and avoid.
For more: Sometimes the most popular small or luxury SUV isn’t the best. (Looking at you, Chevrolet Equinox 2026.) We highlighted what to buy when that’s true.
Cleaning gloves—not fun. Ice cream scoopers—fun. And you probably need both, so we found the best.
Cleaning gloves and ice cream scoopers are the kind of everyday kitchen essentials you may not think much about when you buy them. (Oh, Aldi is having a sale? Works just fine for me.) But our writer, Lisa Fogarty, actually found differences during testing.
For the four best cleaning gloves, we:
- Used a gauge in our labs to measure the force required to puncture them
- Wore them while washing dishes to see how well they grip wet items
- Soaked them in bleach cleaner overnight to test their chemical resistance
For the three best ice cream scoopers, we:
- Enlisted three testers (our writer, her husband, and their 12-year-old son Colin)
- Tested scoopers on cartons of Häagen-Dazs just pulled from the freezer
- Weighed the scoopers and measured their handles
Hear us out: The next time you upgrade your hearing aids, make sure they have both a telecoil and Auracast capability.
New Bluetooth technology, called Auracast, is expected to replace existing tech like telecoil—a tiny wire receiver that picks up magnetic sound signals from assistive listening systems and reduces background noise for clearer sound—in the coming years.
But it’s still five to 10 years away from being widely available, and stories like Pam Parfitt’s are important—her life changed when she used telecoil for the first time. Experts are trying to combat the perception that telecoil is on its way out.
For more about telecoils, Auracast, and what to do, read our article. But the (very) short of it is this: Make sure your next pair of hearing aids has both a telecoil and Auracast capability.
Since dads can’t catch the one thing they truly deserve (a break), here are 30 gift ideas for celebrating Father’s Day.
We’re about a month away from Father’s Day, and if you’re anything like me, you haven’t even thought about it (and have, let’s be honest, dropped the ball once or twice in your life).
Well, here’s Mary Beth Quirk’s gift to us both: A list of the best gifts for dad from CR’s Shopping and Deals editor extraordinaire, meaning all we have to do is click “Add to cart” before it’s too late.
In it are gifts for busy dads, cheffy dads, techy dads, toolly dads, and dads who deserve a break. If it’s a tight holiday this year, check out our gifts for under $50. And if nothing else, send a card. Honestly, I think Dad will just be happy to hear from you.
Fresh From the Labs
We’re constantly testing the latest products and retesting existing stock. Here are last week’s drops we didn’t mention above:
- We tested a few new car batteries. Find our latest ratings.
- We added new exterior paints to our ratings. Read more about the best exterior paints.
- We assessed new printers. For more, check out our ratings.
