Decent oven with faults.
3/5
This model Stoves double gas oven was bought to replace our old Stoves double gas oven, which has given years of good satisfactory service.
Unfortunately, the grill pan for the top oven is cheaply made compared to our old one, is a tight fit in the top oven cavity and makes an unpleasant grating noise when slid in and out in use, has sharp edges and doesn’t come with a handle. We’ve put this grill pan in the recycling and use the old one. There are 4 height positions for the top oven’s single shelf.
The bottom oven has two (optional use) telescopic pull-out shelf rails and which is quite a good idea. There are 8 height positions for the bottom oven shelves of which there are two wire shelves supplied.
Both the top and the bottom ovens only have one light in each, and that’s mounted at the back of the oven which means it shines brightly in your face when you look into the oven but doesn’t illuminate the oven evenly or even very well, as did our old oven which had two lights in each side wall in each cavity. So, poorly thought out in this newer model.
The controls are very simple to use and are very basic – simply turn on and push the knob in to ignite the gas burners. There’s no automatic ignition as there was on our old oven, this may be a part of the fail-safe safety feature.
There is a “beep” alarm for minute timer, but no programming facility. The bright touch screen LED display shows the time in 12/24-hour mode, and is easily seen in bright daylight.
The volume of the alert “beeps” for the minute timer can be adjusted from 1 – 3. 3 being the loudest and is the default.
The electric grill control is simply a turn on/off. The grill takes 2.5 minutes to reach full temperature, but seems to be economical in use according to my power meter.
It’s a functional double gas oven with an electric grill, but it is evident that the quality of design isn’t the same quality compared to the older version which is a little disappointing.
Other than that, everything works ok.