The fan oven makes terrible noise

AdmiralX

I purchased a fan oven with ceramic top from a High Street store £319 plus disposing the old and installing the new £74. From the start the fan made a terrible snoring noise heard even in the next rooms annoyingly. I cannot cook in the night after 10 pm because it sounds a lot throughout the flat and I may annoy neighbours as well, and definitely I cannot concentrate while cooking and listening the noise, it interferes with the telephone conversation even. I had fan ovens for 20 years but never experienced this noise. after two days of receiving the oven, I phoned the customer services of the store; they made a note of my complaint. The engineer of the manufacturer visited last week, and said, indeed, the fan is faulty and they will change the fan only, in couple of weeks but meanwhile I can cook in that oven. I do not do cook in that oven, I have a small portable £69 conventioal oven for the family that can take pizzas and odd flan. So I cook temporarily with this conventional little oven and avoid the noisy fan.

I wonder if this much noise is a normal thing. I am waiting for the new fan to be installed to see whether the noise of the fan will continue. Family and myself, however, discovered - by accident - that the little conventional oven cooks pizzas and apple crumble much much better and crispier than the fan oven.

Anyone has experience of noisy fan oven? Are conventional oven better cookers for some foods than the fan ones?

macman

It's a fault-all you should hear is a slight humming from the fan blades.
Why do you wonder if it's 'normal' if the engineer has already agreed that it's faulty?
Conventional ovens are better for cooking different things simultaneously, as the heat varies from shelf to shelf. Fan ovens are better for batch cooking.

Meepster

I have to agree with macman.

They have said it is faulty and they are going to repair it, so the noise obviously isn't normal. When it is fixed, it should then make a "normal" amount of noise...

AdmiralX

macman wrote: »

Conventional ovens are better for cooking different things simultaneously, as the heat varies from shelf to shelf. Fan ovens are better for batch cooking.

I think actually I will use both for different food.

Meepster wrote: »

I have to agree with macman.

They have said it is faulty and they are going to repair it, so the noise obviously isn't normal. When it is fixed, it should then make a "normal" amount of noise...

The noise is something like clearing of throat...

AdmiralX

The engineer changed today the fan in my new oven and it the sound is smooth now. i can cook late night without nuisance noise.