Excellent oven and fitting - but one major fail!
4/5
This is, on the whole, a good product, a follow-on from an earlier Stoves model, which fits in well into our kitchen. The AO team installing it were efficient, polite and helpful. One detail: on this model there is no indicator when oven and small oven are up to desired temperature. A real miss by Stoves, as with prepared meals (and especially pizzas) it is essential to put them in at the right temperature to get the right result. So what I have done is use an oven thermometer to monitor the times in minutes and seconds at which the ovens reach gas levels 1 to 9. This may not be 100% accurate every time, but it's a great deal better than nothing. See below:
UPPER OVEN TIMINGS LOWER OVEN TIMINGS
1: 5.10 1: 3.10
2: 6.00 2: 3.45
3: 6.30 3: 4.15
4: 7.50 4: 5.15
5: 8.30 5: 6.20
6: 9.15 6: 7.00
7: 10.50 7: 8.30
8: 12.15 8: 9.30
9: 23.15 9: 10.20
We contacted Stoves who confirmed that they'd not fitted this facility, and suggested running the ovens for 20 minutes to achieve heat. Any heat. A fanatic waste of gas especially in these times: as you will see from the above, that would mean wasting up to 14 minutes of gas!!
Rob White.
