Britannia AG120/COL Cooker Hoods - Chimney

father christmas is not coming down this chimney

Advantages: clean simple lines, good price
Disadvantages: none so far

The world of cooker hoods can be a confusing and frustrating place to be. The choice is endless and the price you can pay is verging on the ridiculous. So what type of hood and how much to pay to complete my purchase of kitchen appliances? The brief from Mrs Scenic was a chimney hood. I did try to steer her toward the flat rear vented type, but she was having none of it. Now with chimney hoods you can pay anything up to £300 and on for the more expensive makes. Luckily I was in charge of the budget and anything over £150 was out of the running, so I was very pleased to see this Baumatic in the Homebase catalogue for £99.99. After playing around with kitchen unit combinations for about 2 hours I just tacked this hood onto the list and thought "job done". Hindsight is a wonderful thing, if I had checked the spec's of the hoods I ...

getscenic 22.03.2007 · Read full review
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There is smeg on my hood

Advantages: Sucks up fumes
Disadvantages: Made by SMEG

I can`t believe that I am actually sitting here writing an opinion on a cooker hood. What the Smeg can I possibly say that will make anyone out there want to buy a Smeg KSEIV95X cooker hood ? And who the hell would want to put anything in their kitchen with the word SMEG emblazoned across it. The modern homes exhibition will never be the same again. Beautiful fitted kitchens that contain more SMEG than a Thailand brothel. It is a hood, it is made by Smeg, it goes above the cooker and it sucks out all the unwanted fumes that make your nice clean home smell like a backstreet greasy spoon diner. And before anyone asks me, yes, I do get commission for the number of times I include the name SMEG in my op (I wish). lmao. The KSEIV95X cooker hood from Smeg (god, I hate saying that word) is quite simply the Rolls Royce of cooker hoods ...

roy_l_t_1970 07.07.2002 · Read full review
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Review of Smeg KSEIV95X Cooker Hoods

Britannia Dynasty 110 range cooker. Smaller than it looks.

Advantages: Chef top, 6 further gas burners. Looks great. Multi-function oven.
Disadvantages: Very small interior to main oven, very difficult to clean hob and oven floor. Expensive.

I really had to beg my husband to buy this cooker - much more expensive at over £4000 than we had intended - because I especially wanted the chef top plus six more gas burners, the two electric ovens, the instantaneous gas hob, the multi-function main oven, and smaller oven - because we have a large family and often do a lot of cooking. Now that we have it, we are really disappointed. The chef top works well - and it's great to have so many rings for pans, but everything on the gas hob is a nightmare to clean - none of the products in the Britannia cleaning kit (expensive) seems to actually bring cooking carbon off the chrome rings or the brass burners - best product I have found is Astonish. Also it is really difficult to simmer anything - even on the lowest setting, food burns in the pans, except perhaps the very small rings ...

Lyli 20.11.2009 · Read full review
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