Cookers & Ovens

Advantages: None unless you like phoning the service department
Disadvantages: This cooker has quality assurance issues

...have now been returned to Cannon as being not fit for purpose. Both suffered from identical faults. The top oven took 45 minutes to get to a stable temperature which was 50deg F below the set temperature. Food was burned at the back and uncooked at the front. On the first the cooling fan failed to function until it unjammed itself, noisey on both cookers. The shut off flap for the top oven on both failed to operate. A known fault on this (Chestergate) ... Read review

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Double Oven, fan assisted, easy to use
Disadvantages: It is more expensive if it isnt white

...It is a White electric Zanussi-Electrolux ZKC5540W and it is sold as a double oven with a separate grill. This oven is also available in Silver and Stainless Steel but it does cost slightly more at a cost of around £549.99. So why did I plump for the oven, well other than the fact it was currently on sale and I was saving myself £100 it is exactly the same Oven that my Mother-in-law has and it possesses everything that I need and it comes with a ...
...this oven, firstly we have the hob which is glass ceramic and black in colour and it has 4 fast heat separate hobs which light up red when they are switched on. To activate the hob there are four separate knobs which can be turned to different heat levels depending on what kind of heat you want. The top is easy to wipe clean after any spillages and because it is glass your pans will be much more stable than one with hobs which are slightly raised ... Read review

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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review