Advantages: Good looking, easy to use, durable Disadvantages: No Clock
I purchased the Zanussi 70cm Stainless Steel Range Cooker about 6 weeks ago and would like to detail my experiences so far.
First of all it is a nice looking cooker, the stainless steel looks superb and feels nice and cool as well. I liked the particulary large oven that it has which is iseal for cooking for families, it comes with 2 shelves which as adjustable so will fit in a very large bird. The energy rating is ?A?
The Hob is stainless steel and has 5 Gas burner areas?s with a particulary good centre burner which I use for cooking with my Wok, oriental dishes come out well because of the heat generated ? a problem with electric cookers that I have had previously.The gas burners are cast iron and appear to be very durable so far, they are also really stable ? no wobbles so far. The knobs are quite nice as well.
The oven ...
Advantages: Easy to use Disadvantages: Smokey, bad quality.
We had this oven fitted in our kitchen when we moved into it 7 months ago, it was brand new when we started renting the flat, and since then we've had a few problems with it. For starters, after just a couple of months, the timer buttoms on the front fell out, and although they're easy to fit back in, its not a good sign! As well as this, the door on the front dropped by about an inch on one side, which means when it cooks the smoke can escape through a small gap!! For an oven which is £340, I don't think this is something which is good!!!
It gets very very smokey despite been correctly cleaned every week, which i think is a problem with the fan. One good thing, is that when we approached Zanussi about the problems they were happy to come out very quickly to service the oven, but to be fair it shouldnt have the problems in the first ...
