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Re: everhot range cooker
Hi Helen,
a lot of manufacturers do 900cm and 120cm widths. 100cm may be a little trickier. Falcon do a nice 100cm wide model but the oven sizes may not be right for your needs – I love the slow oven idea though. Neff have a 100cm range cooker – more modern looking though. I am sure there are lots more.
If you have a look at a site like rangecookers.co.uk you can enter a search on cooker widths and get a rough idea on prices and options – then you can hunt around for the best deals.
If you have a local independent white goods store it may be worth popping in for a chat. Our local smallish shop was very helpful and knowledgeable – among other brands they carry Rangemaster and Falcon cookers (both from the Aga stable) and really knew their stuff. Their prices are comparable with the big name stores.
We still love our Rangemaster and find we are baking and cooking much more than previously. I have even lost my fear of the wok burner ! My only wish is that I had not bought it in black as it shows every speck of dust.
Good luck with whatever you choose. I found there really was no better way to narrow down my choice than going and looking at cookers – opening and closing doors, picking up pan supports, pulling out grill pans etc. Let’s just say that quality is variable.
The guys on here really know their stuff too – I always value the opinion of someone who is not on commission.
Happy hunting, Jackie
Re: everhot range cooker
Hi Helen,
in the end the deciding factor was the running cost. The recent anti-Aga groundswell may have played a part too. Don’t want to annoy Mr Monbiot! The Everhot is much more efficient than an Aga but we realised that we do not really need the year round warmth as we have a very efficient new combi boiler. Also, to be honest, I do not have the lifestyle that my mother-in-law had while farming and Aga owning- a distinct lack of sickly lambs needing warming. Maybe part of the attraction was the association with the romanticised rural lifestyle. She bought her Aga fifty years ago when the alternative, if one needed to get up at three in the morning for some animal related emergency, was to stoke up a fire. Not my situation at all.
This is not to deny that the Everhot is a super piece of kit. It is well made and seems much more efficient than any of its rivals. The company must be selling lots as they have just expanded the business into larger premises. It also has the beauty of being such a simple design. The electric elements are bog standard and easy to source and replace if needed. The induction hob is fantastic and means that you can turn off the hotplates during the summer.
For your situation it sounds ideal and if you buy one I will admit to being a bit jealous as I still hanker after one sometimes. Your kitchen will be much cosier and it sounds as though you do need year round warmth. The running costs may well be offset by gaining a much more usable kitchen and hence a bigger house! See, I’m making your argument for you. Also no rewiring, rebuilding or gas/bottled gas/oil issues. Just plug in and off you go.
They seem to hold their price very well so resale values have not fallen through the floor as with the older Agas. Everhot may be able to source you a secondhand one if you contact them – they are very helpful – but it may not have the newer “slumber” energy saving feature.
What did we get ? I set out to buy a Falcon range cooker but fell for a Rangemaster Classic Deluxe 90 dual fuel in black. It seems solid and, most importantly, cooks like a dream. The wok cooker should come with a health warning but fortunately my eyebrows have now grown back after the first time I lit it! It has the look of an old fashioned range which fits in well here. It was also a really bargain price – that made my husband very happy.
Good luck with whatever you decide – but I would really recommend a visit to their HQ if you can possibly make it. They have dealers all round the country but I don’t imagine any of them have the range (pardon the pun) of models that are on show and running as at Dursley.
Best wishes, Jackie
Re: everhot range cooker
Hi, seriously considered one of these but went with dual fuel range instead. If you are anywhere near their HQ I would recommend a visit as they are very helpful. They also hold cookery demonstrations. The cookers seem well made.
This link may be useful:
http://www.countryliving.co.uk/index.ph … /topic/915
Good luck.
Re: Stay clean liners – removing
Thank you for reply. I thought there might be issues as liners nowadays seem to be part of the oven rather than an “add on” like they used to be.
At the moment I have a double oven Cannon which doesn’t have the ladder system and the liners just seem to be screwed on. The range cooker I’m considering will be a Falcon – 900 deluxe, 1000,or at a push (space wise) Continental.
I shall have to take my baking trays into our local dealer and see if they will fit. The brochures give oven dimensions but I’m not sure if that takes into account the liners and rack support system.
Re: Quality long lasting cooker
Sorry jjames you type and post so much more quickly than I can. If you read my very first post you will see that I am after something very basic but which cooks really well. I am not technical but simply looking for advice on buying a decent cooker.
Bless you – given my age if I get to wake up in 2034 I shall be delighted!
I was merely quoting 3 years as you had mentioned 3 – 5 years yourself. Hope your cooker carries on performing well.
Thanks again for help on forum.
Thank you kwatt for confirming that it is worth buying a quality product that will last – including a cooker. I’m not after a status symbol or all the latest bells and whistles but simply a cooker that is a pleasure to use, well designed and which will not end up in a skip in 3 – 5 years.
A £500 range cooker used for 3 years will cost exactly the same p.a. as a £2,500 one which lasts for 15. I know which I would prefer to use. It just seems a pity that I feel as though I am having to pay more for quality than I did in 1984. Or maybe I’m just more of a skinflint now…………
Anyway, I think I have decided on the Falcon 1000 – it seems to tick all the right boxes. Many thanks for all your help.
PS (edit) Posted above after jjames commented about his cooker lasting so long – I cook a lot so maybe I wouldn’t be that lucky. I shall leave the pros and cons of circuit boards etc to the experts.
Re: Quality long lasting cooker
Apologies if you thought I was ignoring your advice. To show my ignorance I admit I had no idea that the difference in energy ratings amounted to so little in terms of energy used and cost per year. I get the feeling that the general public such as myself are being hoodwinked as to their significance.
Spending money wisely is important to me, hence the idea of buying a cooker which will outlast several cheaper ones (and maybe me as well!). I’ve been very disappointed in the standard of the ones I’ve seen so far.
Oh dear,now I sound like one of those old dears who complains that “things were better made in the olden days” I’m off to look out my shawl and bonnet………..
Thanks again for your help.
Thank you for the comment about energy ratings. I want to buy electrical appliances that are energy efficient, as well as robust, since I want to keep my bills down.
Re: Quality long lasting cooker
Thanks for speedy replies and suggestions.
Sadly, although it looks very beautiful, I have to reject the Mercury as the ovens are only rated D for multifunction and B for the other. (This is according to the Rangecookers.co.uk website. Mercury’s own site doesn’t seem to have that info.) For that money I would like something more energy efficient.
Falcon and Britannia have much wider ranges (no pun intended) so I will have to spend some time studying them. I like the fact that Falcon have some models with 2 simple fan ovens but the very practical 1000 falls down by only being C and C fuel efficient.
The only showrooms for Falcon and Britannia locally are very posh fitted kitchen studios – should be fun. I need to test the weight of the pan supports as I have a dodgy wrist and dropping some of those I’ve tested could give me a dodgy foot as well!
Any more recommendations welcomed.
Thanks again.
