Love the double oven, not just a grill in the top cavity but a real gas oven. Electric grill is fast!

I've been using an all gas cooker for over 30 years. This cooker is slightly different in that while it has a gas hob, main oven and small oven, the small oven also doubles as an electric grill. The electric grill, timer and ignition required no special wiring as they plug into a single standard 3 pin socket. It looks striking, with an all black finish and glass doors on both ovens along with a glass lid for the hob which activates a safety feature when closed that cuts off the gas to the hob burners when the lid is down. The controls are easy to use, simply push the dial in, which activates the ignition, and twist clockwise to the desired setting, keeping the dial pushed in until the burner/oven is lit. As previously mentioned, the small oven doubles as an electric grill, which is activated in a similar way to the gas controls except the dial is pushed in and twisted anticlockwise to the grill setting. The small oven cavity can be used as either the electric grill or the small gas oven, not both at the same time. Both oven cavities have self cleaning walls and the hob is easy to clean. The hob has one large burner, two medium burners and one small burner giving plenty of versatility and the dials give plenty of control. Cooking using the hob is as expected. Cooking results using the main oven have been good, with food turning out as expected. The electric grill works as expected but I have only toasted things and will more than likely use a toaster instead of the grill. The small oven is the reason it gets only 4 stars. When cooking a 10" pizza on a pizza stone, the pizza was more well done towards the back of the oven. I'm sure this can be remedied by turning the pizza halfway through. The second thing I noticed, (which is probably a good thing for energy saving), is that following normal cooking instructions the food is overcooked. I remedied this by reducing the Gas Mark by 1 and reducing the cooking time slightly. I'm sure this is due to the cavity being smaller but am surprised it wasn't mentioned in the manual. All in all, this is a very nice looking cooker and it performs well. While my results using the small oven haven't been perfect, I'm sure this will improve with practice. If you are looking to buy a full glass cooker to fit in a 55cm space in your kitchen this is a very nice cooker which is just as well as at the time of my purchase, this was the only model that was available (at all the retailers I checked) to fit the 55cm space. The only variables were three colour options, two of which were available from AO, all other specifications were identical but the black option from AO was the least expensive.

Lovely looking cooker and so far pleased with its performance but there are a few issues I wish I had known before I purchased it: 1. You have to hold in the ignition for 15 seconds when lighting the ovens - worried about the starter failing in the future due to the excessive use. 2. Knobs not easy to read - slight raised area to indicate where it is in relation to the numbers. 3. Oven light constantly on (not very environmentally friendly).

Ordering and delivery experience with AO was - as usual - clear, efficient and pleasant. The cooker is a versatile and well built appliance perfectly suited to the galley kitchen I was refitting. The ovens are generously sized and reach temperature very quickly. The hob burners support a range of pan types and sizes well and the range of flame adjustment is excellent. The grill is one of the best electric ones I’ve seen. Time will tell if element lifespan is an issue… As with some other reviews, I do feel some attention could be paid to the control knobs. The quality isn’t the problem, it’s more the labelling and indicator design & printing needs to be clearer and more intuitive. A separate dedicated button for the igniter rather than Press/Hold/Turn dials would be appreciated by the arthritic senior who is the main user in this case….

Brilliant. I honestly don’t know why I waited so long to upgrade to a new gas cooker. I had an old beko previously and this just feels so much more substantial. Solid doors and knobs, not accidentally going to turn anything on. The lid cuts it off to the burners if it’s down and the grill just runs on the electric. Only criticism like others is that it’s all or nothing on the grill so easy to burn those sausages. Just keep the door all the way open and move whatever you’re grilling as low in the space as it will go.

Love my new cooker,it took me 3months to choose this one and I’m so glad I did

55 cm wide Black and fitted perfectly - nice to have two gas ovens ( grill is electric ) I was limited to choice due to the 55 cms Using the top oven loads Strange the gas settings do not match standard temperatures and the top oven numbers are different to the main oven numbers - however saying that checked the instruction book and not burnt anything! So overall really pleased .....

The service I received from AO.com was 2nd to none. Communication between AO and me, the customer was first rate and delivery and time was great. The product itself had a manufacturers problem that Zanussi, I feel ,have been dragging their heels to resolve. What makes it more frustrating is that is a gas safety fault. At the present time I have a cooker that cannot be used and due to the safety fault the gas engineer had to disconnect until it can be rectified by Zanussi service engineers.