[Gretus]

The extra – and extraneous – fangling, is a like a carrot on a stick, luring you away from the sad fact that the actual oven is barely fit-for-purpose.

Yes, those sliding doors look like bad news, so thank you for warning me.

I will look at spares back-up.

I’m now fervently hoping that mum sticks with the oven she’s got and that, bar bunging in a new element once in a while, it stays workable if not wonderful.

If there was an East German oven equivalent on the market, it’d be a no-brainer: solid, no frills, reliable, uncomplicated, fixable. Exactly what is needed. If, by some magical stroke of luck, we’d retained the old electric Belling cooker and used it to prop up a corner of the garage or something, I’d be seriously considering the viability of having it stripped down, fixed and reinstated. Sadly, it’s long gone.

There’s a gap in the market the size of a juggernaught. And nowt filling it.

Thank you for your comments, very much appreciated!

[Gretus]

Thank you for this information.

Wolf and Lincat are new to me. I’ve had a quick look at Wolf, and they seem just the job. Sadly, I misread the price tag, thought ‘that seems low’, and had a second look. An audible gulp accompanied the extra zero.

I’ll do as you suggest, and watch a few Mastercheffy and Bakering Off style programmes to see what they’re using, and find out if Bosch and Neff have ‘up, up North’ baking days.

Bosch have an unfortunate tendency, on too many models, of providing knobs and dials with lousy contrast, failing at the first hurdle. It’s sobering, reading about cooks having to use a torch, awkwardly peering up at the underside of a dial, trying to see where the marks are. Absolutely basic design functionality, ignored.

Thanks again!

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