£12,995 for that!

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AIBU that £12,995 for a cooker is just ridiculous as it doesn't even self clean or am I more AIBU to start a completely pointless thread because I'm having the life sucked out of me hoping some one will answer my really boring thread about glasses.

hoping some one will answer my really boring thread about glasses.

There's a thread about glasses?

Where?

tickle my arm until I fall asleep at night!!

Oh, yeah, baby!

I have a massive kitchen with no handles. The units cost less than £5k from Ikea but I have normal ovens from ao.com that cost less than £1k for two. I live in a 2 bed ex council house with an extension for the kitchen.

It looks a lot like this (maybe about 2/3 the size and a normal fridge freezer)

No need at all to spend £50/60k.

I think it's like anything else....people buy what they like and can afford.

Personally I think it's hideous and wouldn't have it at any price, but I have a huge cooker (6 burners and a grill plate with a 90 and 30 oven) because I love cooking, it fit my kitchen and I could afford it.

I would never buy one of these, even If I was a millionaire with the space for it. Often you're paying more for a fancy name - like those big fridges. Complete and utter waste of time unless you're a professional cook who caters for large numbers and might actually use all those burners.

I'd buy an Aga any day though. Worth every single penny.

It looks lovely but I still miss my gas eye level grill from my student days so it wouldn't do for me.

Have a look in Knightsbridge. I saw a range for over 100k. Must have been 4m long...

I have a three oven Aga, didn't buy it as it came with the house, but I believe ithey cost about £10,500 brand new.

A PP says they're status symbols, and maybe they are for some, but I bloody love mine. It takes the chill off the house in spring/autumn and in winter, it heats the kitchen/breakfast room so I don't need the heating on in the rest of the house. It dries the washing quickly, so we save on tumble drying costs. It's great for cooking large amounts and keeps food warm if I've mistimed things. It also doubles as a slow cooker.

Difficult to say whether it's 'worth' that much, but it gives me a lot of pleasure and will last decades, so it's worth it to me.

I have a professional Lacanche - it came with our house :-)

I wouldn't give the time of day for an aga but I do have an outdoor kitchen.

Oh fuck, that almost made me crap myself, as tentatively looking into a new kitchen!

I don't get Agas though, they're on all the time, even in summer, making the house unbearably hot.

I have had a Lacanche Cluny in a previous home. It was £££ but a great cooker. Much better than my current Mercury range cooker.

My husband is in a high-end part of the bullding trade and works in fancy houses. He just finished working in a stately home where their new kitchen (not an extension, just the remodelling of an existing room) cost £250k. The floor alone was 65k. So yes, I guess 12k for a cooker would be small change for them.

I'd rather stick the cash in a ISA.

It's a lacanche and I've got one. Price varies depending on the options you put in it. I have a chargrill, gas burners and induction hob so all the options. It's amazing and I'd pay twice that for it. An Aga would set you back 20k so it's a bargain really! I loved speccing it- a bit like speccing a car. Go ahead and buy it

We saw a Porshe kitchen unit wall for £90k, It was just a wall of units, price didn't include fitting, this is how the other half live it seems. I wish I could say that I didn't like this £10k cooker or the Porshe kitchen units but sadly I do,

Buying an extra line on the lottery tonight....

£250K!! That's more than my house is worth!

DH's (very rich) family had Porsche bathrooms when growing up. When having a crap, they referred to it as "driving the Porsche".

Things you learn on here. Porshe do kitchen units?
Have to google that.

Rubbishmantra I love that!!!

My friend fits high end kitchens, he says it is not unusual to remove an oven like that which has never been used (instructions still inside), new owners come in and replace the kitchen to 'make their mark' on the house.

When we bought our house it had a Lacanche in the kitchen. The thermostats had broken in both ovens & I couldn't get anyone to fix it. I even had to threaten to take an appliance repair firm to the Small Claims Court. The previous owners had cleaned all the temperatures off the control panel. After a particularly bad burning (wouldn't cook below 250) I put it on eBay and sold it. I only got £900 for it but it was better than having to pay for it to be disconnected and dumped. I replaced it with a Neff oven, a microwave & a hob & my life improved dramatically.

I paid 16K for a new rayburn recently to replace the 32 year old one in our house. We were spending 1k per year on servicing and replacing parts on it for the last five years.
It heats the radiators, hot water and has two ovens and two hot plates. Great for drying clothes too!
But unlike an Aga it can be turned off to just hot water in the summer.