Maytag wall oven
showing Sabbath
When the display reads Sabbath, Sab, 5A6 or 5Ab, the Maytag oven is in Sabbath Mode.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: Maytag
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What Sabbath
actually means.
When the display reads Sabbath, Sab, 5A6 or 5Ab, the Maytag oven is in Sabbath Mode. Only Bake runs, tones are off, the light does not respond to the door, and temperature changes are not shown.
Maytag oven display · also shown as Sab, 5A6, 5Ab
What to do when Sabbath shows on the ovenKind of codeMode, not a failure
A setting someone switched on, or a state the oven entered on purpose — a control lock, a Sabbath setting, a showroom mode that lights the display without heating. No part has broken and nothing has to be replaced.
Usually leads toNo repair
If you did not mean to set it, turn Sabbath Mode off as your owner's manual describes.
Shows up asOven Light Not Working
The light inside the oven will not come on with the door open, the light button, or in any mode.
MakeMaytag
A Whirlpool Corporation brand known for sturdy, straightforward appliances, including a small selection of wall ovens.
SourceMaytag Product Help: Sabbath Mode - Wall Oven
Maytag wall ovens with Sabbath Mode; the display text differs by model.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from Maytag's own guidance for Sabbath on its ovens. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
If you did not mean to set it, turn Sabbath Mode off as your owner's manual describes.
Remember the oven stays on in Bake until you turn it off.
Cleared?
The oven came through without a new part. If the same message returns during a later bake, or the oven stops heating partway through, book it as a fresh problem.
What not to do
A silent oven whose light ignores the door is not broken while this mode is on.
What you may
notice with it.
The oven problems Sabbath tends to arrive with. Answer these at the oven before anyone is booked.
All problems
Oven Light Not Working
4 causes, cheapest first
No repair indicated
Nothing to repair.
A setting someone switched on, or a state the oven entered on purpose — a control lock, a Sabbath setting, a showroom mode that lights the display without heating. No part has broken and nothing has to be replaced.
Maytag
ovens.
A Whirlpool Corporation brand known for sturdy, straightforward appliances, including a small selection of wall ovens.
Maytag oven repairMore Maytag codes
Mode, not a failure on other makes
In Maytag's own words
Control may display Sabbath/Sab/5A6/5Ab.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. Maytag wall ovens with Sabbath Mode; the display text differs by model.
Maytag Sabbath oven repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
about Sabbath.
Can I clear Sabbath myself?
My Maytag shows 5Ab and the light will not turn on. Is something broken?
Why can I not broil or self-clean on my Maytag showing Sab?
Back to your everyday
Still showing Sabbath?
Book with the code exactly as shown, the full model number, and whether you can smell gas or burning — with a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.