Double Oven 60cm Gas Cooker

Advantages: Easy to clean and very smart looking.
Disadvantages: Oven racks quite difficult to pull out. No oven light.

...I purchased this cooker in white. I paid £269.95 but most suppliers seem to be selling it for £500+ so I think perhaps mine was priced wrongly as it certainly seems more like a £500 cooker than a cheaper model. It is a very smart looking cooker and easy to keep clean. It has double glass panels to both ovens which are extremely easy to wipe clean as is the smoked glass lid. The burners are very neat looking and the pan supports keep even the smallest of pans stable. Being 60cm the oven is a generous size and the hotplate easily accommodates four full size pans at once. I find the grill very fast and when only cooking on one shelf the top oven is more than adequate. The self cleaning oven really does self clean. The shelves in the main oven are a bit difficult to remove but I think this may just be due to it being new. The oven does...

Titch47 11.08.2005 · Read review
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Cooking Crumpet for a Tasty Dish!

Advantages: Cheap, safe from kids, good value
Disadvantages: Oven does explode

...ORIGINALLY WRITTEN September 2000 I purchased an Electrolux 50 cm s/steel gas cooker from Currys a few months ago. Although cheap in price I have been quite impressed. It has 4 gas burners, combined oven & gas, electrical hob ignition + storage drawer. The dimensions are height 90 cm, width 50 cm, depth 60 cm. I paid £179.95 for it. There was an additional charge of £60 to disconnect + remove my old cooker. I took out 5 years insurance with Mastercare costing £65. Cheaper insurance is available. Note that if the cooker breaks down in the first year you get a free refund. Also only a small percentage of appliances break down in the first 5 years of use. You need a gas lighter to light the oven. The gas lighters are quite cheap at around £3 an unit. All you need to clean the cooker top is washing up liquid and some warm water...

mrpaella 16.09.2000 (19.12.2004) · Read review
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British Gas

Advantages: gas seems fine
Disadvantages: telephone nightmare

...British Gas I felt I had to write this review after having to deal with this company for the first time and being pretty disappointed. Having moved into a new flat and coming from a flat where all the bills were included in the rent meaning never having to deal with all these companies and now having to set up all the new accounts for things such as electricity, gas and water I found this company particularly tiresome to deal with. We were meant to phone up on the day we moved in to the new flat and pass over all the readings on the meters and the correct information to set up new accounts and the such like. I had no problems at all when contacting the water supplier and the electricity supplier but when it came to the gas this was more of a problem that I could of dreamed. After phoning up the main line for British...

newby2 26.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of British Gas

What to look for in a gas cooker

Advantages: Cheaper than electricity, faster, good range of cookers
Disadvantages: None

...appliances. They often have very poor parts availability. Check it has a Gas Council number (for UK customers). This is a safety standard. Very often foreign imports don't have Gas Council registration and are not as reliable. They can still be sold in the UK, though. The choice between an eye-level grill and a waist-level is entirely a matter of personal taste. Remember the cooker will hopefully last you a long time, though, and as you get older it is more difficult to bend. Eye-level grills leave space below the oven for a storage drawer, which is usually spacious and will hold a lot of pans. Waist-levels are preferred by people with fitted kitchens, who want all the work-surfaces to be the same height. We have a waist-level cooker, because my wife prefers them, but I wouldn't have one out of choice. I have found them to be problematical...

Ray45 08.01.2001 (29.12.2000) · Read review
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Morphy Richards Rice cooker - Too clever for me!

Advantages: An easy way to cook rice dishes
Disadvantages: Not suitable for small families due to the minimum cooking quantity

...A few months ago I read a review about a rice cooker and thought that, yes I could do with one of them. I settled on the Morphy Richards 48744 as to be honest that was the only one offered on the fact finders website and I thought I would use up some of my points. . The Rice and Pasta cooker is a mirrored silver colour with black handles with a toughened glass lid with a black handle and a steam hole. The cooker is 21 cm high without lid or 24cm with the lid and 28cm in diameter plus handles makes it 36cm. The cable is 90cm long. It fits nicely into one of my top wall mounted kitchen cabinets if the lid is turned upside down. The cooker is supplied with a pasta cooking pad, which is like a round piece of clear/white rubber with holes in it, a plastic measuring beaker and a small plastic white spatula. Inside the machine is a large...

paulpry118 20.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Morphy Richards 48744 RICE Cooker

* It's a Gas Gas Gas Man . .

Advantages: A very good cooker.
Disadvantages: Not a lot.

...This model, of gas cooker, the 600 SIDODLa is a free standing, stove, with a double oven plus a grill, and also has an automatic programmer. This model is made to suit natural gas, and can also be converted to take LPG, simply by using different jets. You also get an LED for the programmer, which displays the current time as a bonus. I managed to "Scrounge" this cooker from the "Outlaws" second hand, and it has proved to be a little Beaut. It came with a small, but adequate instruction manual. This is just an ordinary cooker, but of course there are two ovens, the upper one is also the grill, and the lower one is the main oven. You can of course use them both together if you require. The ovens have two lights in each of them, and the doors are glass. The main oven is fitted with a fan. The width is 600 mm, average in other words...

smudgeybabes 21.01.2009 (28.02.2009) · Read review
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Review of Stoves 600SIDODLa* 600mm Gas Cookers

  British Gas make a complete hash.

Advantages: None that I can think of...oh..they have the word "British" in their name
Disadvantages: Customer Service (lack of), Prices, Attitude...oh everything really

...the cooker. Our "very nice man" isn't quite so good anymore because he's not allowed to pull out the cooker (if only I'd known how easy it was). He has to cap our gas at the meter. That means we have no hob, but also no heating either! Get the phone book out. This is an emergency. I know ? we'll call British Gas! Well, no problems getting straight through to another nice lady on the phone. I explain the situation and, yes it's an emergency as we need the heating for our baby, etc, etc. Great she can book us an engineer! Mind you it'll be £132! Phew, but "OK" says I. Oh? but he won't get to you until Monday. Well, Okay, Monday will do. We can get by with no gas hob and I've got other heaters. Anyway, I'd rather have British Gas than some local cowboy. That's it then, all booked in for Monday, between 8am and 1pm. Of course...

eldergill 18.11.2005 · Read review
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Review of British Gas

Money burned by British Gas

Advantages: Large company, synergy, many products offered.
Disadvantages: Price hikes, deparments don't talk to each other

...UPDATE 28.11.08 When I wrote the review below, prices had gone up by 50% since January 2008, with British Gas agents profusely blaming rise in oil prices for rises in both Gas and Electricity. Fair point? By July oil was at a record $147 a barrel at its peak. Since then oil has collapsed to a 2 year low of $52 a barrel and still falling, I spoke to British Gas about this -- they say that gas is already in the system paid for at the old prices! On Radio 4's Today program, they continued along this line when pressed about price rising the moment oil goes up, but stubbornly high when oil comes down. Remember, not a penny has come off gas or electricity - yet when the first wave of oil price rises began in January 2008, gas prices went up by 15% and a further rise of 35% in August. It is now five months on, and British Gas...

makro74 31.07.2008 (28.11.2008) · Read review
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Review of British Gas

British gas

Advantages: NOTHING AT ALL
Disadvantages: everything!

...When I moved into my flat there were two reasons I decided to choose British Gas as my Gas supplier. Firstly there was already a British Gas Pre Payment meter installed, and secondly I chose them because they were a well known name. Well, if only I?d done some research first I could have saved myself a whole lot of bother. My first problem was actually finding a number to ring to get the supply connected. I tried the Yellow Pages and the Thompson local, but although they had a full page add on the back of the Yellow Pages it was for buying a fireplace, not connecting the gas supply. Never mind I thought, I?ll give it a ring anyway, and maybe they?ll be able to give me the number I need. Anyway, they put me on hold for about 10 minutes and then the woman (sounding very huffy) gave me the number I needed. So I rang the number...

pink_champagne 06.10.2003 · Read review
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Review of British Gas

Tall, dark and handsome

Advantages: different sized hobs, oven handle does not get hot
Disadvantages: small grill pan, no back on storage compartment

...There it was. A dark green gas cooker, with gold coloured handle, in our price range. Having just moved into our own house for the first time my husband and I had set out to buy our kitchen appliances. I had a thing about green at the time (still do) and we had already chosen a dark green microwave. The oven was the New World Cotswold Deluxe, a free standing high level cooker, and was priced at £259.95 from Curry's. As soon as I saw it I knew I simply HAD to have this stove. The grill pan was at just the right height for both me and my husband (he's 6ft, I'm 5ft) and it didn't take long to persuade him that 'this was the one'. Once we the cooker had been installed at home it was time to put it to use. The instruction book, although rather bulky because of installation and servicing instructions, was very easy to follow and I had it...

Gwenick 02.05.2001 · Read review
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