Hotpoint HUE53

I have had this cooker for a year now, I bought it as I wanted a 50cm cooker to fit into the kitchen. I also wanted stay clean liners, ceramic hob, double oven,programmable timer etc and this cooker has it all. Initially the oven didn't reach the correct temperature ( I used an oven thermometer to register this). Also the casing of the cooker was being marked by the heat coming out of the top oven when in use due to heat escaping under the seals. (Hard to explain) I called in the engineer who changed both thermostats in the ovens and changed the door seal in the top oven. A few weeks later and ... more

This cooker works, but as far as I'm concerned, it's badly designed and made: - the fan is loud already and this is compounded by the inner glass in the doors intermittently vibrating during operation (have adjusted feet to make it stand well but that did not do the trick) - the grill tray doesn't slide smoothly, you have to wiggle and screech it out, which feels vaguely dangerous with a hot thing on it - the lower door opens sideways: I bought the cooker online and there was no info on this. From the images it looks like a flip-down door. Unfortunately the opening side is on the right, which ... more