Help me choose an oven

PennysIntoPounds

Hi all, I need to buy an electric oven with electric hob. Standard size for domestic use.

Quite like the ones where you have a top and bottom oven that you can put on different temperatures to cook two things at the same time on different settings.

No fancy extras needed.

Any recommendations or brands/suppliers I should steer clear of?

Cheers for any input, overwhelmed by choice!

TadleyBaggie

When you mention a hob, does this mean you are looking for a standalone cooker?

Bigphil1474

A 'standard width' cooker will likely have an upper grill and a lower oven, rather than 2 ovens. If you want 2 ovens you may need something bigger, like a range cooker. Maybe you will find a 2 oven one. Assume you mean 60cm wide. We currently have a Smeg oven which works fine, we will replace it as it doesn't suit our cooking needs (previous owners left it). We used to have a Cannon range cooker, which was top notch but about a metre wide, think they are called Rangemaster now. I expect the usual brands are fine - Hotpoint, Bosch, Hisense, Beko etc. We have a Bosch dishwasher which is really good, and we have a Bosch washing machine which we brought from our old house that was great, just doesn't fit in the new house. If you go for induction hobs, worth checking if your pans are magnetic. If not, they probably won't work and you'll need to replace. I think we're going induction hobs next.

danrv

I'm pleased with my Beko EDC634W oven. Standard 60cm width with both fan and conventional ovens plus grill. No grill pan handle but that's ok. Bought from Euronics. Easy to wire in.

PennysIntoPounds

Cheers all, will mull over and order. Good point about the induction hob pans!

goldfinches

Miele have what they call Experience Centres where you can go and try out the various ovens and hobs etc. and take your own ingredients to a Kitchen Discovery Class so you can really see how new functions and types of hob you haven't used before compare to your current equipment. Even if you're not going to buy Miele products in the end I still think it's worth doing if you can because it's probably quite a long time since you bought a new cooker and there are all sorts of new innovations that you may or may not find useful. Other manufacturers probably also offer whatever new whizzy function you like so you can buy for instance a steam oven from Neff once you've discovered that you'd like to have an oven with a steam function.

I don't know where you are but the Abingdon Experience Centre is really worth a trip, in fact if you're at all interested in cooking/baking it's a brilliant day out.