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Whats the diferance?
I have been looking on the following web site for a new gas cooker but I’m confused between free standing and slot in, they look the same to me.
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They are the same….. You just need a slot the correct width.
What’s the budget? Mrs P insisted that her new gas cooker had to have an eye level grill (so as the hot fat can squirt straight in your eye) and bought the Leisure Sterling 50 for about £350. It turned out to be a Beko with a badge and she hates it – two main oven thermostats to date and it still won’t cook properly. :rolls:
Choose carefully……. Better still, tell us what you fancy and we might be able to advise.
Penguin45.
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well aslong as it has a separat grill and slow cook on the oven and costs about £200 I will be happy, Mrs madrat likes the doors to be solid (no glass). A drop down glass lid would be nice but not nessassery. We were looking at the Beko’s because we have had several Beko products and they have served us well. Washer (son pinched that) dishwasher(still going strong) and New fridge freezer this year. To be honest I wish Lidl would branch out into white goods, everything with the Bifinett name seams to last forever.
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Penguin45 wrote:What’s the budget? Mrs P insisted that her new gas cooker had to have an eye level grill (so as the hot fat can squirt straight in your eye) and bought the Leisure Sterling 50 for about £350. It turned out to be a Beko with a badge and she hates it – two main oven thermostats to date and it still won’t cook properly. :rolls:
It won’t ever work properly.
I’ve yet to see a cheap gas cooker that was worth buying, every one that I have ever come across suffered from serious temperature instability in the cooking cavity. Mostly due to poor thermostats, poor insulation (leading to heat loss and inefficiency) and poor door seal (more heat loss) which means that the temperature caries wildly in the cavity.
You also get, totally free of charge, long heat up times and very often what I consider to be sub-standard burners. 😉
K.
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It is really. 😕
I recall a recon Tricity @ £120 being half the price of a new one about ten years or so ago and that wasn’t very good (static oven, radiant rings) and it was electric.
Now, consider, what premium would you place on a gas cooker? Then consider over a decade’s worth of inflation and then consider what’s reasonable today. 😉
I’m not saying there’s much better out there though. 😕
K.
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madrat wrote:😯 £350 cheap. 😕
No £350 = very cheap these days, no standard size gas cooker on the market worth buying in my opinion.
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Wish I had your budgets, :rolls:
However here in the real world
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madrat wrote:Wish I had your budgets, :rolls:
However here in the real world
:rolls:Its the real world we are telling you about, whats the point in asking experts opinions if you dont like what you hear ?There are no good cheap cookers, in fact there arent even any average/half decent cheap cookers anymore.
Its the way the market has gone with people just wanting cheaper and cheaper stuff.
Beko is as good as any out there at the moment but dont take that as a recommendation because they are crap aswell.
In my eyes decent freestanding cookers start at Range size and even then just from Rangemaster upwards.
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Some of the Smeg cookers are okay to be fair. Not a battleship build, but they’re not bad compared with the rest and the performance is okay as well, especially if you ditch the idea of a gas oven and go electric oven and gas hob. Electric oven, better temperature stability and more even cooking in the main.
K.
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In my eyes decent freestanding cookers start at Range size and even then just from Rangemaster upwards.
So am I to understand that if I want a good cooker I have to spend £400+ and get a huge great range? Well I would need first a kitchen extension and then a credit card extension. I appreciate the advice but it’s not very useful to someone on a tight budget as was stated in my post.Personally I have always hated electric cookers apart from halogen hobs, they stay to hot for way to long and the ovens dry everything out, especially fan ovens.
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madrat wrote: Personally I have always hated electric cookers apart from halogen hobs, they stay to hot for way to long and the ovens dry everything out, especially fan ovens.
For a fan oven, reduce the time and temp by 10{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d}, don’t pre-heat and go from there. Each oven is different regardless of the format and needs to be learned.
Sadly madrat if you want good stuff there’s no option but to pay for it. There are good electric cookers out there and the cheapest, best option, IMO, is a mixed fuel cooker with an electric oven and gas hob.
But the choice, as they say, is yours as we’ve told you what we think.
K.
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http://www.365electrical.com/servlet/ma … d=DCG8511W
Gone for Beko
£180 free delivery
Sorted.
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Beko arived today, and its apsoloutly fantastic, did a rost, perfect, did some backing, perfect. Cheap is not always nasty.
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madrat wrote:Beko arived today, and its apsoloutly fantastic, did a rost, perfect, did some backing, perfect. Cheap is not always nasty.
I have worked on more Beko cookers than you will have hot dinners from yours….. and yes it is 😉
We dont get kickbacks on here from manufacturers and we know from frequency of breakdowns,customers complaints about appliances and the quality of the appliance inside when its taken apart to make our judgements, if people want honest opinions then they can come on here, if they dont then they can go to their nearest national chainstore and be sold any old rubbish from their sales person.
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