Which Range Cooker is best?

[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

My Belling Country Classic (8 yrs old) went out with a bang last night (along with all downstairs lighting). It has an insurance policy. They (the insurance dudes) want me to get a Belling C100EBK but this is black and mine was a lovely bottle green. They may let me get another model if I have a good reason. As my belling was old I will only get around £450 off the new model.

So can you help with your range (geddit) of experience?

My old one was electric oven and hob with 1x fan and 1x normal oven.

'Which' has this beauty as the best buy duel fuel range. Which would match the tiles at the back of my cooker.

Please let me know if you think I should stick with the Belling full electric number or if I should investigate other models.

We don't have natural gas so would have to get bottles. Is this worth it??

Space is limited to 100cms width.

Our kitchen is country cottage style. Cream cupboards old sink unit. It is a galley kitchen with the cooker as the focal point at the end.

Looking forward to hearing your cooker brand experience.

I apologise if my text is wierd. MN not working properly on my computer at the moment.

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Is this in the right place?

Have read some other threads on this topic so have some info now.

If you have no mains gas (as we haven't) then consider electric induction. Brilliant! Only downside is you may have to change your pans.

We have had a Smeg A5-8 delivered not long ago. Still not connected as the new kitchen does not arrive for another few weeks. We dont have gas as we are very rural and will be connecting it to bottled LPG outside. The smeg got excellent reviews when we were hunting around and i cant cope cooking on anything other than gas. They do have smaller ones which may fit into your size requirments, have a look on their website as it is very good. Think John Lewis sell them too?