Range cookers are they a waste of time?

[ClaireHi]

Hi all

new poster/sometime lurker here, just wanted to canvass opinion on range cookers.

I recently purchased a rangemaster toledo 90, as I read on these forums that rangemaster are the best of the bunch in this price range. it has not yet been connected but looks very nice!

having mentioned this recommendation on another forum, a couple of kitchen suppliers have chipped in that they think rangemaster is no better than any other make and that none of the ranges at this price point are any good.

what do you folks reckon? should I sell my kids and buy a Lacanche instead?

[kwatt]

Re: Range cookers are they a waste of time?

Hi Claire,

Like hi-fi and many other things it is a law of diminishing returns in many ways with appliances.

You get three basic price bands that they all, pretty much, play to…

Cheap, basic

Medium, generally fairly okay

Top end, great machines but they come at a price

IMO Rangemaster is okay, personally I prefer the Falcon and Mercury cookers although they are a bit more expensive but it’s horses for courses. I’d say they were all pitched at the upper end of the “medium” sector. That is to say that they are pretty well built, perform well and as most people would expect but don’t expect something hewn from stone or professional class cooking.

Once you jump up into that Lacanche, Viking and so on territory you’re into serious money, serious performance and seriously well built kit, as a general rule. But, you pay for all that.

Anything sub-£1000 in terms of a range cooker I’m very suspect about in terms of build and performance as, trust me, there’s more than a few out there that are, shall we say, not very good.

HTH

K.

[ClaireHi]

Re: Range cookers are they a waste of time?

thanks for the quick and helpful response.

I have been told very specifically that my rangemaster will only last 5 years, do you think this is realistic or scare mongering?

[kwatt]

Scare mongering I expect. :rolls:

I’d expect to get 8-10 years out it, maybe longer, unless you really give it a lot of use.

K.

[ClaireHi]

Re: Range cookers are they a waste of time?

thanks for that!

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