Any advice about ovens/cookers welcome!

[Cyclops]

We are in the very early stages of having our kitchen refurbished.

I am currently looking at cookers. We are not big cooks, so an expensive and fancy model is not required. We currently have a double oven, with the grill situated in the lower cavity, along these lines: www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/hotpoint-uy46x-built-under-electric-double-oven-03323550-pdt.html

There are so many brands out there, I don't know where to look first. Has anybody got any recommendations? Good or bad welcome!

TIA.

Nobody else got a double cooker??

TIA for anything!

I have a single oven with a micro-combi oven built in above it. Both are Neff, which are pricey (and brilliant)but I got them from Roy Waring who do unboxed but perfect appliances loads cheaper than anywhere else I've found (and with full guarantees).

If you don't cook much so don't need the likes of Neff-Bosch-Siemens you could phone RW and see what they've got on particularly good offer at the moment. I've just been through the whole redoing the kitchen thing and so I'm keen to share my new discoveries!

Good luck.

Thanks for your reply. Buying a single built-in oven with a combi microwave on top is an option for us, so may look into that. I visited Curry's yesterday and the Neff ovens/kit did look good but very pricey for our needs! Thanks for the information on RW too, will have a look in due course.

Having our loft converted seemed simpler than getting the kitchen done!

we've got a neff double oven (grill in top) and it seems very good

my mum and MIL have the same one actually (all coincidentally) and they are v happy too. My mum is a lots of roasts type person and MIL does a lot of baking. I do a lot of grilling (cheese on toast and fishfingers) so between us we seem to be doing everything, and all are happy!

ImSoNotTelling - which Neff one do you have? I've been debating over this for too long!

Um

this is my one but it's quite a few years old now

looking at the numbers I would guess that it's one of the cheaper ones on here

I am sure they are all good

As in the updated version is prob one of the cheaper ones on there

You can prob get them cheaper elsewhere as well

Thanks for all posts and Neff recommendations! They do look good. They also 'feel' good, by which I mean knobs, dials, handles, etc. Just don't think we can justify the price given that the most elaborate meal we ever cook is a roast in winter!!!!

See if which have got any free trial offers going, then look up everything you need now or might soon in your 30 day period! which.co.uk I think.

We only have a single oven, it's a pyrolitic AEG one, so you still have to clean the oven racks (the side ones pull off) by sticking them in a bag with oven pride, but the actual main inside is on a really hot program (the door locks itself) that burns every bit of gunk inside to ash that you wipe off when its cooled down. I did mine yesterday and it's gleaming

Bought it from a discount appliance place - Warehouse Appliances Direct in southampton. If you narrow down your choice to one or two model numbers, just google those and see what comes up - that's where we found this place and save about £150 on Currys price

ooooh pyrolitic

(we are getting kitchen done soon)

DH and DD like to bake and DH is not terribly careful, as a result I keep switching the oven on to cook some meat only to be greeted with a strong smell of burning chocolate

if you are a slattern like me pyrolitic may be the way forward

are they £££?

(amd still v happy with my neff though, would happily buy another)

thanks for the information about the store in Southampton...will bear it in mind when I've got a model or two in mind.

What is pyrolitic? Something out of Carrie

The saleslady yesterday taught me all about the wonders of catalytic. Is this a cousin of paralytic pyrolitic????

A single pyrolitic oven is about £500 - £600, I think we got ours for just over £400 as it was last year's model.

Catalytic linings supposedy are easier to clean, as stuff doesn't stick as much but you still need to clean them. If you have a pyrolitic lining you take out the shelves (you need to clean them manually but I stick them in the dishwasher mostly and then an occasional clean with that Oven Pride stuff to make them sparkly clean) then put it on the cleaning program - it takes 2 or 3 hours and heats the inside to 500 degrees. Any gunk on the inside of the oven is burnt to ash which you wipe out when it cools down. the oven door locks itself over a certain temperature so you can't accidentally open it.