We just replaced our 26 year old range with a new flat top slider that has the self cleaning feature. The auto clean pumps up the oven to around the 900c point (that is hot) and burns away for about 4 hours. The stove must be glowing red. Sounds dangerous to me. The stove is also digital, if the house doesn't catch fire it must surely burn out the mother board.
Anyway, Ann my wife is pro auto clean, while I'm certainly not. We've been arguing about it for the last day or so. She says she's going to push me in the oven and crank it it up full tilt.