Range cooker recommendations please

suestew

Hi all, I am in the market for a silver/chrome 110cm range cooker, If you have a range cooker can you tell me if you would recommend it and the pro's & cons please?


I think the very maximum I would spend would have to be £2,000 but cheaper would be better obviously.

Thanks in advance.

ryder72

If you are looking for a replacement range cooker then look at Rangemaster or Britannia. At this price point, they are about the best out there.

If you are considering a range cooker for a new kitchen, think long and hard about this decision. I would strongly recommend buying a built in oven (or two) and a hob on top. Built in appliances perform much better, offer higher efficiency, better reliability and over all a better cooking experience.

For a £2k budget you can get yourself Neff/Siemens or Bosch ovens and hobs and they will outperform any range cooker at this price point.

Your kitchen designer should be able to advise you on this.

SWMBO

We have a Leisure duel fuel range cooker which we're very happy with. It's just done our second Christmas hosting all our family. Pros - 2 good sized ovens (electric, easy to clean, both same width so can move the shelves across to use in one if you're doing loads of biscuits), gas hob is easy to clean & controllable, wok burner is great for cooking chinese style. Cons - fan in the fan oven makes it slightly too shallow for a couple of my larger baking trays to fit.

SHould be well under your budget too.

sophieschoice

Another vote for the Rangemaster. I got the 110 Classic dual fuel over ten years ago and it still looks brilliant. There's a storage part on the newer one which I don't have.
http://www.rangemaster.co.uk/range-cooking/classic/

phoebe1989seb

We also have a Rangemaster (110cm Élan in cream, cost around £2000) and would thoroughly recommend it. This is actually our third - we originally bought a smaller model (90cm) at a previous house, then upgraded when we enlarged the kitchen. We bought our first 110 (dual-fuel) in around 2000 and sold it with our last house in 2011 at which point we'd had no issues with it whatsoever. We now have an all electric model - there's no gas in our village - and bought it as we were so pleased with how its predecessor had worked.......do miss my gas hob with wok-burner though

suestew

Thanks all.
One question, for those of you with a black hob, do you find it needs constant cleaning? I once had a cooker with this and it drove me mad.

nearlyrich

I have a Cannon 1000mm all gas two full size ovens a separate grill and a warming oven with 6 rings including a Wok Burner and a simmering ring.


http://www.cannoncooking.co.uk/products/professional-100cm-gas-cooker.shtml


I love the fact that it has two full size ovens and that it has two balanced burners which are good for a fish kettle or a griddle. you get even heat across them.


I previously had a good looking but useless Italian model with one half size electric oven that packed in every time I tried to use it..

lostinrates

I have a leisure range cooker and I go against those saying they are happy with it and say I really dislike mine.



I've cooked in a lot of ovens (thirteen moves in five years at one point) and adjust quite quickly but this is the first one I got to choose, as opposed to being in parents homes from new, or in properties I was living in.

Its really not a great cooker and I think was a false economy for us as we do love cooking and are quite ' sociable' cooks.

I should have checked, but our largest roasting tins don't fit in the larger of the two ovens width ways, minor frustration. Even the fan oven doesn't cook that evenly, more of a frustration.


I think its an adaquate cooker for the average family cook, there is nothing 'wrong' with it. But if you care enough to want a range cooker for cooking rather than looks you possibly care enough to want performance to be better than 'ok'.


Ours will eventually go in an annexe to our property where it will be oversized, unless any of our friends want it, and I dream of replacing it with a beautiful French stove...but frankly, even the 1960,s cranky and unpredictable gas cooker in milan I was too nervous of to light with a match so lit with a long piece of spaghetti I felt more in tune with than my leisure range cooker.


Black hobs? Not a problem....I find a hob benefits from a daily clean anyway, I like a black hob.

jfdi

nearlyrich wrote: »

I have a Cannon 1000mm all gas two full size ovens a separate grill and a warming oven with 6 rings including a Wok Burner and a simmering ring.


http://www.cannoncooking.co.uk/products/professional-100cm-gas-cooker.shtml


I love the fact that it has two full size ovens and that it has two balanced burners which are good for a fish kettle or a griddle. you get even heat across them.

I've got the duel fuel version of this - absolutely love it - the warming oven is great for proving bread too!

The ovens are large enough to get my OH's Gastronorm dishes in too! (He's a chef!)

suestew

Thanks all, appreciate feedback.

lostinrates wrote: »

Black hobs? Not a problem....I find a hob benefits from a daily clean anyway, I like a black hob.

They do look good. unfortunately I found I was cleaning more than once a day due to it looking dusty all the time, but maybe it was just the make I had then.

hebridean

We have a Rangemaster 90cm Professional with a ceramic hob. I cannot recommend the ceramic hob as it just doesn't get hot enough or cuts out when it's getting hot. The oven is ok and better than the hob but again not worth shouting about, though it may be worth buying with a gas or induction hob.
Falcon cookers and a couple of French brands would be better, or even better a seperate hob/oven system so you are not married to the same unit or manufacturer.