Range cooker with a decent grill?

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This is a hardware one but seemed the best place to ask.

I’m fed up with the grill on our Rangemaster cooker.

It’s a separate one with a grill tray that comes out on telescopic things. Level 3 is so hot it burns things instantly but level 2 won’t even toast a bit of bread. Level 1 is basically “off”!

It’s too thin to fit a casserole dish under to eg grill the top of a macaroni cheese and there is only space to move things up and down by about 1cm so you can’t control the level 3 heat by moving the food further away.

I’ve realised I grill a lot of food and it’s annoying me more and more.

The main oven has an element which will just about crisp the top of a lasagne but it takes forever.

Kitchen config means we have to have range style. I’m also thinking of changing the burners from gas to induction. Does anyone have any good recommendations?

I actually quite like my Rangemaster grill.
But I don't have the telescopic thing (it was an optional extra) can you remove it and have a standard grill pan?

I don't normally venture into this bit of MN - was looking for baking inspiration!

Thanks. If I were to remove it the grill pan would just sit on the floor of the grill cavity as it has no rack slots on the side. But I’d still be stuck with one very hot setting and two that don’t cook the food. Can you use your level 2 at all?

For baking, my go-to book is Flora Shedden’s Aran.

Ours is stoves, unlike rangemaster, our grill is also a third oven and decent sized

Mine is the Toledo I the grill is numbers 1-4, I normally use 4 although sometimes I turn it down to 3.

If I'm trying to brown things like lasagna I put it on the bottom of the grill and have the grill at level 4.

Occasionally I turn the metal rack over so it's lower down.

Not on a range cooker but the best grills I’ve ever had as on old style gas cookers with an eye level grill

I was thinking back to the one we had growing up recently actually! Would be perfect but I’m too vain about my kitchen.

Can’t swap to a modern wall-mounted oven/grill either due to layout.

The grill on the Everhot range cooker is amazing

Get a portable salamander from a professional supplier. Very reliable, very flexible ( and not dear)

It is but we have found we very rarely use it, hotplate for toast, hot oven for things we used to grill like bacon and sausages. However because it is inside the oven you can use it for browning macaroni cheese etc.

Ah sorry, I should have specified, not Aga/Rayburn style proper farmhouse range, I just meant a wide non built-in cooker with multi ovens! Hence the possibility of an induction hob (currently have gas burners and electric ovens).

Yes, I thought you probably did, they are quite different things. Our Everhot does have induction rings as well as hotplates though.