which range cooker is best

welshgranny

I am looking for an 8 burner range cooker under £900. Please can anyone let me know what make they have and what do they think of it.

TillyTrippit

I haven't got an 8 burner but a 5 with a griddle type thingy. She's called Layla and she's gorgeous!!! She cost £599 and does everything that she is supposed to. She was made by Leisure and was recommended by a friend who had given up her hugely priced Rangemaster!:D
HTH
Tilly
xx

Mudbath

I've got a belling 7 burner one of which is for a wok and love it. From my experience I wouldn't use dixon's online again. We got ours in the sales reduced from £990 to £590. Enjoy looking! xx

hex2

When I was choosing mine I was really suprised at the differences in quality between different models from the same company. I went to an appliance warehouse http://www.bunnyappliancewarehouse.co.uk/productlist.asp?C1=Range+Cookers that had lots on display so I could make an informed choice, then went away and found the cheapest online one of the same thing. Bought mine from Biasco via Quidco and had real problems with delivery.

I bought a 90cm Rangemaster and wouldn't change it for anything.

Alexelisey

I have a Rangemaster dual fuel 110 and I wouldn't recommend it at all. It's hellishly expensive to run, difficult to clean, one element in the grill blew up, and the trimmings are not real brass, it's just a brass coloured glue which comes off if you try to clean the knobs thoroughly. Thankfully I got it in a liquidation auction so didn't pay full price for it (which would have been £1400), but I'd still never have another one even at a bargain price.

maryb

Mercury. They basically make catering equipment but this is gradually becoming one of the main lines they do so it's for serious cooking. Both John Lewis and Harrods said this was way in front of any of the competition. I even got over my AGA yearnings as a result of buying this cooker

welshgranny

Have been looking at a Belling today and the rangemaster. I had my mind set on a New World that I saw in a brochure but when I saw it in the shop I changed my mind. Now I am getting really confused as I have to chose one in the next few days so that I can choose my kitchen as the house is nearly finished :T . Had a look at the Mercury , way out of my price range .

Magentasue

Gosh, we're a family of six with a four ring hob. There aren't many times I use all four and need more. Do you all have sky high fuel bills or am I missing something?

welshgranny

Hi Tilly. Have had a look for a leisure Layla on the internet but cannot find it. Wondered if you had a number for it.
I love cooking and also make soap and cleaning stuff so I make good use of a big cooker. Been staying wit my parents whilst house being renovated and it has been crazy going back to a 4 burner. Did once use a 4 burner for 5 of us before using a larger stove but I would not go back.

moo2moo

I have a Lofra. Because of its ingeneous design its impossible to clean the oven interior properly. I've set fire to it twice so far whilst using it as a grill. The second oven never gets up to a usable temperature so is only any use as a mini grill and because of its size its almost impossible to get oven dishes to fit inside it.

Top tip - take your favourite and most awkward shaped oven dishes shopping with you (and don't buy a Lofra - also marketed as "New Wave").

juliapenguin

I have a Smeg range cooker with 5 burners which was already in the house when we bought it. I would definitely not recommend it - it gets really grubby looking but when you rub the grubby bits hard enough to get them clean, the markings to show which ring is which/the oven temperatures come off!! We now have to guess the oven temperature using the picture in the instruction book and it's a pain. Also, the grill is broken and would apparently cost a fortune to repair and the worst thing of all is that it only has one huge oven rather than two smaller ones. What a daft idea - you could cook three turkeys at once in it. Whatever you do, get one with more than one oven so that you're not wasting your money heating up a vast oven with not much in it.

I solved the problem by buying a good combination microwave with a really good convection oven in it, and I never turn the big bu**er on apart from on Christmas Day!