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To spend £2000+ on an oven?

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AllTheFloralCurtains · 06/02/2021 13:38

DP seems to think that a good oven costs £400 or less. Last year he bought a £200 single oven off Amazon for our teeny kitchen in our last house, knowing that we would be moving soon. (ie. Knew it was a cheap buy)

For background: We've just moved into a house (we bought it) with an oil fired aga and some crusty awful 70s oven thing.
Fantastically both have died in the first week meaning we have no heating and no oven.

A new boiler looks like £4500, so DP is feeling very sensitive to spending as we weren't anticipating having to immediately replace these things!

My Mum swears that the best thing to buy is a rangemaster. She recently bought a cheaper range oven and hates it. Rangemaster all the way apparently.

Looks like they range from £1500-£2500.

(we have no gas where we live, so it must be electric only.)

We can afford this, but I don't want to throw money away - what do people think is a reasonable price to pay for a double / range oven?

OP posts:
Plonque · 06/02/2021 14:42

@Northumberlandlass

I have a rangemaster 110 dual fuel, with a grill pan on the side. We just LOVE it.... It was £2000, but for us it was worth every penny. We love cooking & enjoy it very much.

We have had the exact same oven and I thought/think it's wonderful too!
We have used two versions of it in two houses (left one behind on our last house move and then bought for our new renovation)
I prefered the induction top, purely for ease of cleaning but I honestly loved them both.

Original poster
AllTheFloralCurtains · 06/02/2021 14:58

Sorry just on the beach.

Can't fix the aga, already had a professional in. The aga is very very dead

OP posts:
nonevernotever · 06/02/2021 15:08

I fucking love our 90cm Rangemaster induction cooker. So does my dh, but if we split up (not on the cards) it's coming with me. We bought it from whitakers of Shipley and they were fab. Delivered that and the matching hood to edinburgh from Shipley for less than John Lewis wanted just for the cooker. And they were polite and helpful which is more than jl managed....

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 06/02/2021 15:14

If you can afford it, go for it.

Said by the person who had a £250 oven in a new build that died within 3 days, then 3 months trying to get a warranty replacement and about £80 on phone calls to the premium rate customer service line to get that far, then gave up after that died after 7 months (no replacement as the warranty period only extended from the original installation date 3 months before the rest of the house was finished and I could move in) and replaced it with a £150 one with £100 installation that then stopped working properly 12 months a 3 days later.

At £600(ish) in 18 months (and I still need to replace the oven again/pay for removal and installation), two grand on something actually nice (I bloody hate built ins now) that is likely to last significantly longer than five years, you'll be saving money compared to my attempting to do it on the cheap.

Peanutbutterblood · 06/02/2021 15:15

I dont have a range master but spent 1800 on a beautiful range oven when I moved in with dh 9 years ago. We weren't flush but I spend a lot of time in the kitchen and it was something I wasnt willing to skrimp on. Dh generally buys cheap but he does think our oven is pretty

strawberriesontheNeva · 06/02/2021 15:19

I would buy it if I could afford it. Might as well read yourself especially as we are unlikely to allowed holidays this year again!

Ileflottante · 06/02/2021 16:01

Go the whole hog and get a £10k triple dual fuel Aga! Wink

NotFabulousDarling · 06/02/2021 16:19

That's a lot of money for a cooker. There's a middle ground between £400 and £2000 and I reckon most cookers are in it.
Has your house been empty a while? Are you sure the boiler needs a total replace? When we moved to our last house the oil boiler had packed in and it just needed bleeding to get the air and water out of the system as it had been left empty for too long.
I didn't know this until we bought our house, but usually in areas with no piped gas you can have a nice gas hob still, if you want one (and they're so much nicer to cook on). We have one. You get the bottles of Calor gas for them, and most places with no piped gas have people who will deliver refills of Calor (or Flo Gas) to your home. Our actual oven is electric though an oven is largely an oven whatever one you get (just check the internal measurements fit your oven trays).

sothisisit2021 · 06/02/2021 16:36

Our range master was rubbish. It died completely after ten years and I was glad to see the back of it. I've got a Belling now and am so very pleased with it

makingitupaswegoon · 06/02/2021 16:40

I have a rangemaster (a modern design) and absolutely love it. Induction hob and electric ovens. having 5 rings and two ovens and a separate grill has been a godsend given the amount of cooking I have been doing over the last year. I no longer skimp on appliances that matter to me

RosesAndHellebores · 06/02/2021 16:52

I paid £3k for a Britannia cooker in 2001! It was not worth it but used it until 2015. Wouldn't buy another one.

Have a Miele induction hob, two full ovens side by side with a combination micro grill adjacent. It is fabulous especially as I now have a very bad back.

OP - I would see what's about 2nd hand.

Breathmiller · 06/02/2021 16:53

We are in the middle of renovations and I dream of a midnight blue rangemaster to go in my new opened fireplace. Dh is aghast at the thought of spending that on a cooker. But i have my heart set on it. I will need to save me pennies though as it's not easily affordable for us. But even then I'm just not sure how much I will be able to talk him into it. He hates spending big amounts of money. But also, he loves cooking and baking bread and I think he would actually love it as much as me.

Glad to hear that people think they are worth the extra cost

Londonmummy66 · 06/02/2021 17:03

I bought a Britannia 18 years ago and it is still going strong - I absolutely love it.

SaltyTootsieToes · 06/02/2021 17:05

I had a rangemaster. Dual fuel. Electric job, gas oven. Absolutely loved it and other than a “professional” oven cleaner cleaning off all the markings for the dials, never had a problem in 15 years owning it. I only changed to another range when we out in a new kitchen and I now have an amazing smeg range. You can get canisters to have gas.

We were looking at possibly moving that past summer abd most houses we looked at were not mains connected (gas nor drainage) and that is what most homes had with ranges. I would certainly be doing that if I were to move to a house without gas.

If you like cooking and you’ve had a range, hard to go to anything else.

EmmaStone · 06/02/2021 17:06

We moved into a house with an oil fuelled Aga (no gas in village), but no alternative cooking source. We couldn't afford to reconfigure the kitchen, and the Aga was burning money like you wouldn't believe. We had it removed for a few hundred pounds. Bear in mind, an Aga isn't a 'standard' size for other ranges, so you won't be able to plug the hole. We bought a Smeg range, and along with some other work, managed to have our end cupboard moved to plug the gap, so at least now I'm not dropping food between the cooker and the units.

If you think you may be redoing the kitchen anytime soon, personally I'd avoid an expensive range, and instead go for a double oven or 2 ovens at eye height and a hob. So much more choice, and I think the ovens perform better than in a range. I also found it quite difficult to find a range that fulfilled my criteria (induction hob and pyrolitic oven), in fact the Smeg was the only one. It was £1600, so at least not eye-wateringly expensive.

Ethelfromnumber73 · 06/02/2021 17:09

Your Aga might just need servicing

VintageStitchers · 06/02/2021 17:12

I had a brand new all electric Aga in my old house and hated it. The only thing I liked was the induction hob. Weird shaped deep ovens and no glass window to check on how it’s cooking. I only bought it because it fitted the space and I didn’t want to completely re-do the kitchen.

When we moved into this house and re-built the kitchen, I got two Neff ovens, one above the other and an induction hob. I’m much happier and the slide and hide door is brilliant.

Ethelfromnumber73 · 06/02/2021 17:12

Sorry, just saw your post re it being 'dead'. I didn't think that was really a thing, ancient ones are often refurbed. Maybe get a second opinion. There's a website called Blake and Bull that I follow on Facebook, they do refurbs and repairs I think and seem to travel to do them. Maybe email them?

LesLavandes · 06/02/2021 17:15

You can get your Aga repaired. I miss mine now I've moved. Agas never die!

NotExactlyHappyToHelp · 06/02/2021 18:10

My mother has a rangemaster with an induction hob and she’s had no end of trouble with the hob going on the blink.

5 engineer visits and it’s hopefully finally fixed.

It’s put me off having one myself. The customer service has been really substandard.

Roselilly36 · 06/02/2021 18:21

Doesn’t see an excessive spend to me for a quality range.

ISpeakJive · 06/02/2021 18:21

Isn't it a pain cleaning ovens like Rangemasters? The ovens are low down and so many bloody knobs on them.

VinylDetective · 06/02/2021 18:42

@ISpeakJive

Isn't it a pain cleaning ovens like Rangemasters? The ovens are low down and so many bloody knobs on them.
That’s what professional oven cleaners are for!
Dogsarehairy · 06/02/2021 18:55

An Aga doesnt die, they are unbreakable. Every part can be replaced easily but I expect that it if it oil fired you are just not handling it properly yet- they need love.

Get someone out to look at it.

Dogsarehairy · 06/02/2021 18:55

@AllTheFloralCurtains

Sorry just on the beach.

Can't fix the aga, already had a professional in. The aga is very very dead

It really can't be.

Who was the professional? You need the local Aga bodger man.

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