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My first cooker when I got married (many moons ago) was a second hand Tricity Marquess? (I think that was its name) it was very posh with a strip light on the top of the dials) when it came to the end of it’s useful life, I had saved for a new Creda with Radiant Rings, as my mum had bought one, and I rather admired it. (Sad I know) That Creda served me well & I decided when I moved home last year that I would continue with the make and treat myself to a new Creda Reflection R365E (Stainless Steel Finish) for the new house. (It cost about £700)
In the last year, I have had to have replaced under warranty the ceramic elements, & the fan in the main oven, and of late all the markings are wearing on & above the dials. It grieved me greatly the last time the service people were here when they opened her up, & for me to see not one genuine creda part, but Ariston/Indesit Merloni stamped parts inside her. To say I feel a bit “cheated” is an understatement, as I thought Creda was still an English independent marque, obviously it being part of that dreaded Italian Group passed me by for some reason!
Needless to say I am thinking of changing the cooker & wonder if you can recommend a good english & reliable make of electric cooker.
WQ
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Oh those were the days……….since Indesit took over Creda they have dug a big hole and buried the marque in the UK. Creda like Rover are names soon to be forgotten….. 🙁
Take a look at Bosch, not cheap, not English, but good and good don’t come cheap these days does it? 😀
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Oh how I wish Bosch would produce a 60cm wide electric cooker, we could deffo sell loads if they did. Probably the best electric cooker out there at the moment would be the Zanussi range, much more sturdy than the current crop of Creda / Hotpoint machines. The ZCE7680 is a good all round machine and always worth a look.
Just aside Tricity still produce the “Marquis”, however I will say that the quality is not what it used to be, tis very tinny on the doors.
Donmerloni cookers can only get worse, cheap selectors, naff elements cabinets made out of the thinnest metal ever made
where will it all end
i got a bosch integrated, and its the best oven ive ever had
zanussi, as u rightly say, are probably the best of a bad bunch, but i must admit, ive changed a hell of a lot of the new style regulators, they are quite poorly made!
‘Tis a Crying Shame
I thank you for your words of wisdom so far Gentleman! 😀
I have always preferred Electric over gas, but maybe I should consider gas. My husband’s late father, used to be the manager of the old gas board showroom & he always swore by Cannon. – Are they any good? – Again appreciate your input/advice?
So far whilst browsing on-line, I have only come up against Beko & Indesit & I am not keen! 🙁
By any chance are you thinking (you clever chaps that make the ISE range) of making a good electric or gas cooker?
cannon – aka creda/indesit/hotpoint
they aint bad.. for now
gas is great as long as you stay away from those continental ones with the burner on the base, the ones that burn the bottom and never cook the top!!!
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Thanks for letting me know about Cannon. I shall give them a big wide body swerve. (Gosh is there nothing that bunch of Ratbags that is supposed to be the 5th largest maker haven’t bought?) I have looked at the Zannusi as suggested on here, but after my experience with their products via their studio line range, I am not tempted! – I have looked at Whirlpool’s Cooker but it seems to be a very nasty cheap effort & again I am not keen.
Maybe I am being a bit to “picky” but everything just seems to lack quality. (SIGHS)
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WhirlpoolQueen wrote:By any chance are you thinking (you clever chaps that make the ISE range) of making a good electric or gas cooker?
Personally I’d love to.
This is a subject (cooking appliances) that I have a particular interest in as I like to cook, it’s a bit of a hobby in some ways.
What stops, or at least hinders us from going down that road is that the freestanding cooker market appears to be in decline, more people want built-in ovens and hobs although there is still a large market and, quite frankly, people just won’t pay for quality appliances.
You are rare WQ in that you have seen the differences between the machines, most people think about a cooker or oven and assume that they are all the same and all do things the same way. To me with appliances that’s like saying that a Kia Ceed is just as good as a Mercedes C Class, after all, they both do the same thing don’t they? 😉
The problem being that people generally don’t look any deeper than the following with most appliances but this is tailored to cooking products…
– Does it look nice
– Does it cook
– Is it cheapSadly that’s about it in a lot of cases when, as we well know, there’s a lot more to it than that and it galls me somewhat that, all too often, people don’t realise that the nice looking cheap cooker they just bought is a pile of poo until they have it home, get using it and then discover that it’s rubbish.
K.
Quality First – Price Second in my view.
I agree entirely with you Kwatt & it saddens me that people never consider the bigger picture when making a major purchase such as a white good appliances. After all people will pay good bucks for a car i.e. a Merc, but when it comes to a White Good Purchase, only the cheapest will do. (I know some people are on budgets and I respect that, Horses for Courses, or should it be Clothes Horses for Courses? etc.)
My late Grandmother bought when she first married a Hotpoint Washing Machine that had the electric wringer on the top from Howards Laburnum Stores Ltd. She had the machine until the day she died (1986) and the only thing wrong with it was the Heat switch was always in the up position it would never go back down. Same with her cooker, it was a New World Radiation with the Bakelite Taps & it was still plumbed into the wall via a lead pipe. – Again she had that till the day she died.
I have always tried to buy a good make whenever buying and always took the Nanette “FairyLiquid” Newman View (A few more pence makes a lot more sense) because I want something to last. – I am personally not keen on these “built in things” but that’s another story.Whilst my Whirlpool Washer & Dishwasher are good and appear to be of reasonable quality, sadly their cooking range is not so good & everything I have seen today in Comet/Currys/Argos has not impressed me.
WQ
PS. Kwatt, if you can ever influence the powers at be at ISE, I also agree a freestanding cooker in their range would a be a great idea. Heck, I’d even be prepared to demonstrate it !!!
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Stoves and New World are British manufacturers and they’re great. We had a built under gas double oven for around 5 years, and it never gave us any grief, unfortunately we moved house and coudn’t take it with us because we don’t have gas here.
Still Looking
I am still searching in my quest for a new cooker, but my hubby has thrown a major spanner in the works by suggesting we move house!!!! I think deep down he wants a conservatory but that’s another story. – Thanks to you all for your replies, I let you know what eventually pans out.
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adamhornsby wrote:Stoves and New World are British manufacturers and they’re great. We had a built under gas double oven for around 5 years, and it never gave us any grief, unfortunately we moved house and coudn’t take it with us because we don’t have gas here.
Replace “they’re” with “were” great.
Owned by the Irish now too so not strictly British, not all the stuff is UK made either.
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