Spacious double oven in gas with electric grill value for money, hope it continues to work efficiently

Our previous Stoves oven lasted over 20 years, hopefully this will be the same quality. It looks good and seems to cook fine so far. It has an electric grill, which we weren't sure about, but it seems fine so far as well. So the reason for my 3 stars...on our old oven, the doors would open and lie flat, so they were well out of the way. These don't do that and the result has been several quite nasty burns on the back of my fingers when I've been taking things out of the oven and I've caught my hand on the glass door. I dont understand why they don't lie flat like our old oven. It doesn't make sense to me and is a real design flaw, not to mention dangerous. I expected better from Stoves. I think they need to design a fix for this one.

Don’t buy this product delivery drivers was great. When we opened it all the trims were all hanging off. gas fitter fixed it and installed. then we went to use it all the food was burning we called warranty and was told the burners not working still waiting for for engineer to contact us

The oven has just been installed so I haven’t used it yet but it looks good. However, there was no plug on the oven for the grill ignition. I had to cut a plug off a lamp which wasn’t moulded on. I thought anything electrical sold these days should have a moulded plug? Also, there is no handle on the grill pan. Not sure how I’ll supposed to handle it when hot??

I had my previous Stoves double gas oven for over 20 years. It was brilliant. I bought this model as it was the updated version and the same size as my old oven (my old one went on the blink & similar size was essential) & I thought that it would have all the same functionality as my old one. I was wrong. I am unable to cook using 'auto' timer function which I did on a very regular basis. I guess that this is a H&S issue (?) but had it been obvious on the product description I would never have bought it. The finish of the product is less refined, knobs are rather 'cheap' looking & feeling. Such a shame, my last Stoves oven was brilliant!

Overall, very pleased with the oven. Not used to an electric grill but it’s growing on me

This evaluation is in no way a criticism of AO. We had to replace our previous Stoves gas oven as it had gone wrong and was irreparable. You would think the specification of this more modern oven would have improved (or at least remained the same); but alas no. There is no longer the ability to: 1. Programme - so no longer can we go out for the day and set the oven to start at a preset time 2. Change between temperature scales - this oven only uses the gas-mark system - most recipes use centigrade 3. Know when it has reached the desired temperature - normally a light would flash, or similar and then stop when the oven was hot enough. Also, it comes with a largish grill pan but a tiny grill. Of course we knew some of this before purchase but there is zero competition for inbuilt double gas ovens. My advice to potential purchasers is to ‘go electric’ if you can. Stoves and their sister company (Belling) do not deserve your custom. We couldn’t change to electric as there is an inadequate power supply to the oven location, so it would have cost well over £1,000 to install

Love this oven. Like the shelf runners, which give extra support when pulling out the shelves. The reason for only 4 stars was the lack of a handle on the grill pan. Why did I have to purchase one separately? However, I have to say that the one that is made for this oven is actually an excellent design with two handles on a full length support bar. Overall an excellent, easy to use oven, especially the timer. Would definitely recommend it.