Cookers & Ovens

Well worth the money

Advantages: Looks, quality, excellent to cook with
Disadvantages: For me none

I bought this cooker after having to have a another branded cooker uplifted. I have to say looking around you can buy a cooker at a fraction of the price but decided initially to spend around £600 so as to get something of reasonable quality. Unfortunately this was not how it ended with the first cooker being of dreadful build quality and not great to cook with. I had seen this before but ruled it out because it was a little more than I wanted to ...
...it to the one I had to have sent back I was sold and without even discussing it with the wife I just ordered it. When I showed her the picture she was not convinced, that was until it was delivered! Totally and utterly thrilled with it did not think about the cost at all as the quality totally out weighs it. They say you get what you pay for and this is a good example of this. I can't comment on other top branded makes but this compared to the ...

NOT-PC 28.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Smeg SUK62MFX5

Great looking cooker and really easy to use

Advantages: slow cook feature, half grill option, stay clean liners and interior light in oven
Disadvantages: Grill can be a bit slow to warm up

The cremic top has four hobs and visual lights to indicate which hobs are in use and stay lit until the hobs are cool enough to touch. One hob has Solarglo Dual zone which allows it to be used as a full burner or just the inner burner for smaller pans. It has LED display, clock, electronic timer and slow cook feature. The grill has an option to use the full grill or half grill. This is also a conventional oven. The main oven is fan assisted, has ...

alicat07 21.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Hotpoint EW74

Cause you're hot then you're cold.

Advantages: It looks good.
Disadvantages: Colds spots in ovens. Customer service is rubbish. Engineers like their belt buckles.

...it returned but I called Stoves to give them a chance to fix it. They arranged an engineer to come out but the new lid would be sent separately. The engineer came before the lid! He told me to call back when the lid arrived. A couple of days later the lid arrived with the engineeer a couple of days after that. He opened the box and the lid was smashed so he got on the phone to order another. After another wait I found myself with another lid and ...
...to leave and I called Stoves again. They actually apologised and asked me if the scratch was noticeable enough to see it. "Err, yes, I saw it, that's why I'm calling, would I be calling if I didn't see it?". They arranged another lid and I asked them to arrange an engineer without a belt buckle. Finally it was fixed, my cooker was up and running. Now the cooker itself. I purchased the silver one with chrome handles and a black hob. Its supposed ...

LawrenceP 09.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Stoves 600SIDOM

AEG-Electrolux D98000VFM - Electric Cooker

Advantages: Double Oven, easy clean, very easy to use, good functionality
Disadvantages: Touch controls are quite sensitive, fault codes are not obvious

Disaster - 2 weeks before Chrismas my cooker blew up and with all the family coming to visit I had to buy and get one installed really quick. I popped into John Lewis (never knowingly undersold) and instantly fell for this cooker. My main selection criteria was, it had to be electric, 2 ovens, good branding, 5 year warranty, look good and be delivered for Christmas. It ticked all the boxes and I went ahead with the purchase. The goods arrived - ...
...A qualified electrician (my neighbour) was able to install this in about 45 mins, a simple case of moving out the old cooker and disconnecting, then reconnecting to the new one - this involved removing the back panel and reconnecting a few wires. The cooker then pushed straight back into place., and looked great - stainless stell with a black hob. The user guide was really useful, I have never used a touch sensitive cooker before and it is really ...

MODSUE 18.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of AEG-Electrolux D98000VFM

An expensive indulgence

Advantages: Looks, oven versatility, oven temperature speed, oven visibility
Disadvantages: Very poor heat on hobs, useless timer,

Having previously used a good quality touch control halogen hob and separate oven (Baumatic) we were looking forward to our nice new high tec super dooper cooker. First impressions were excellent - a sexy and cool looking cooker - geat for showing off and the controls were easy to use and had tons of features. So off we went to use it..... The ovens - especially the fan oven is easy to use, very versatile and get's to optimum temperature (200c) ...
...used once - we mainly use the grill, whioch again is extremely efficient in getting to temperature and has an excellent heat spread - one of my bugbears. The controls - Lot's of options, child locks, delay timers etc and all the usual you would expect with touch control The timer - WHAT A PAIN. it has two options - up or down. It slowly churns in ten second intervals until it get's to 3mins 50 then it races (and I mean races!) in 1 min increments ...

tonyenjoyd 24.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Electrolux EKT6045X