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The other half and I have had our old cooker die a slow and painful death involving many inappropriately vulcanised rubber cakes, carbonised stuff and a wonky door.
Its a 50cm oven in a 60cm space, and we’ve found a few possible replacements: Indesit, beko, cannon, hotpoint, flavel, and belling, all double oven or single with separate grill.
Any advice?
Why not fit a 60cm cooker less space for debris between the base unit and the cooker?
Still the same brands as the 50cm ones, Cannon, Hotpoint and Indesit are all one group so will be pretty much the same. The Cannon will be a more solid machine than the other two.
Flavel is owned by Beko so not a lot to choose here but the parts are cheaper.
That just leaves Belling the brand has shrunk somewhat over the last ten years but is still worth considering.
Don’t forget the Gas Safe rules on gas cooker installation must be adhered to like room ventilation, cooker hood height from pan supports, if the cooker is against a wall on one side a 50cm may just clear it. Most instruction manuals give the Gas Safe recommendations for their own products.
HTH
Don
Hello I was wondering how you got on with your quest to find a suitable cooker? I too am looking at a 50cm freestanding cooker with a grill fit for purpose, because the one we own takes about 10 minutes to toast two slices of bread adding any more is just pointless becasue the actual grill only covers 50{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the cookers internal width and within that area only provides about 20{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} flame coverage. I sometimes think, does this energy efficiency have anything to do with it? is this efficiency thing being use to justify the use of narrower gauge pipes and valves? Perhaps its me and I’m not pragmatic enough but I thought the very nature of Gas meant it needed to be efficient otherwise it would leak and therefore the efficiency is decided by the user when they turn the dial?
I’m getting the feeling the manufacturers having gained a monopoly are basically saying, unless you spend around 600-1000 you will get what your given and if this is correct, I’m forced to redesign my little kitchen to accommodate a new cooker and therefore perhaps I should just wait until the cooker stops functioning altogether and then advertise it has being 100{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} energy cost efficient!
Best regards
BettyWe never did come to an answer before Xmas really got in the way. Our needs did restrict our options quite a lot.
Our grilling needs are limited to bacon & warming naan breads. For toast, we have a toaster.
Efficiency should be a literal ratio of useful energy produced divided by the energy put in. So it should be about oven insulation, but when it comes to grills, not heating the sides ought to be the trick, but that’s probably why it sucks.
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