What's good name in Gas Cookers?

Margaret52129

Hi, I would like to get a new cooker and was wondering what make of cooker is the best. I've had a Cannon for 8 years but the door has broken and it's proving almost impossible to get another one, (tried ebay for 2nd hand) unless I'm prepared to pay around £150 for a new one! I'm not that fond of the actual door design anyway as the handle is fastened on to a glass door, which in my case became loose and then on opening it, the door completely shattered.

It need to be free standing due to kitchen layout. I realise that it is going to be pretty expensive but if it's necessary, then it's necessary. We do have a few discount stores near us, but I don't want to be guided by price alone - I would like one to work for longer than 8 years!

Any thoughts anyone?

Thanks

ormus

cannon is a pretty good brand. trouble these days is they are not built to last 20/30/40 yrs anymore.
and getting parts is pretty dire too. for any brand/model.
they all seem to change models every month.

dawn_rose

I had a belling which was naff and lasted 6 years. im now on a cannon and its fab had it 18months.

salvador2

We had a cannon for 10 years and replaced that for another cannon. The new cooker showed problems from the first month. We called Cannon regarding a tray that had changed colour after one use while in the old cooker it never changed colour at all. Cannon were more interested in selling us an extended guaranty :-) I explained that the cooker was only 35 days old but that didn't matter. They offered me to send and engineer but we were warned that if the engineer found the problem was not a problem then we would have to pay for the visit.... unless we purchased the extended guaranty. The engineer said the tray was made of poor quality metal and had seen the problem before... ordered a new one for us and suggested we did not use it but use the old one instead :-)
Then a couple of months later the clock / timer stopped working.... I feel that if that failed once then the design is at fault and it would fail time and time again. We don't use the timer so we left it like that..... 11 am is shown 24 hrs a day.
Bottom line, we would not buy another cannon cooker again.

Meepster

Are we talking about a 60cm gas cooker? Or a bigger range style cooker?