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  Review of Electrolux EOC69400X built in electric oven

  Features

  Single oven, grill in oven roof. Cleaning: pyrolytic. Drop down door. Auto cooking facility: once set up, this function lets you select the dish you want to cook plus its weight, then uses sensors to display the right shelf level and set the right cooking method and time - and goes ahead and does it. 11 functions: fan, conventional, pizza, turbo grill, turbo grill + spit roast, economy grill, economy grill + spit roast, dual grill, bottom heat, slow cook, defrosting. Digital clock and timer. Light in top of oven. 2 shelves with 5 positions. Energy rating: A. External dimensions H59.4x W59.4x D56.7cm. Internal dimensions H28x W41x D36cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Cooked roast chicken, potatoes and crumble to perfection and baked well-browned and risen fairy cakes and vol au vents. Large viewing window. Good results using auto cooking, choice of 300 dishes. Displays how hot oven is after being switched off.

  Rating: 88/100

  Price Range: £755 - 1000

  Stockist: 0870 595 0950 - http://www.electrolux.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

  
  

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  Review of Siemens HB750550B built in electric oven

  Features

  Single oven, grill in oven roof. Cleaning: pyrolytic. Drop down door. 10 settings: conventional, 3D hot Air, intensive fan assisted, bottom heating, hot air grilling, radiant grill-small area, radiant grill-large area, defrosting, automatic self cleaning, rapid heating. Digital clock and timer. Light in top of oven. 2 shelves (comes with universal tray with wire rack) with 5 positions. Energy rating: A. External dimensions H59.5x W59.5x D55cm. Internal dimensions D29x W44x D37cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Fairy cakes rose evenly. Fan is very quiet. Displays how hot oven is after being switched off. Drawbacks: Light is at the top of the oven, so when oven is full you cannot see very well into the bottom half of oven. Grill times slow. Fish fingers did not sufficiently reach temperature despite being well browned on the outside. Potatoes and crumble were unevenly browned during roast test.

  Rating: 82/100

  Price Range: £588 - 930

  Stockist: 0844 892 9044 - http://www.siemensappliances.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of Miele H5240 B built in electric oven

  Features

  Single oven, grill in oven roof. Cleaning: enamel lining. Drop down door. 10 settings: rapid heat up, fan plus, fan grill, intensive bake, defrost, conventional, bottom heat, full grill, economy grill, lighting/settings. Digital clock and timer. Light in ceiling. 1 shelf (comes with universal tray and baking tray) with 5 positions. Energy rating: A. External dimensions H60x W56-56.8x D55.5cm. Internal dimensions H34x W38x D39cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Easy to use fascia. Whole width is door, no stainless steel around sides only above and below door. When grilling, wire rack is placed on the universal tray which is easy to use as are the handles. Fairy cakes and vol au vents scored well, however some rose unevenly. Fruit cake was unevenly browned, but acceptable colour on base. Shows you temperature building up to what you have set and beeps when set temperature is reached. Drawbacks: Only one wire shelf, comes with universal tray. Hard to see into oven due to heat-reflecting coating. For the roast, it was hard to fit all 3 items in together. Crumble was slightly browner around the edges and potatoes were a little soggy.

  Rating: 79/100

  Price Range: £799 - 1016

  Stockist: 01235 554455 - http://www.miele.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of Zanussi ZYB594X built in electric oven

  Features

  Single oven, grill in oven roof. Cleaning: pyrolytic. Drop down door. 10 settings: fan cooking, conventional cooking, full grill, inner grill, thermal grilling, pizza oven, bottom heating element, top heating element, defrosting. Digital clock and timer. Light in top right of oven. 2 shelves with 4 positions. Energy rating: A. External dimensions H59x W59.4x D56cm. Internal dimensions H29x W36x D33cm.

  Comments

  GH Good Deal. Good points: Good selection of functions, including pyrolytic cleaning, for the price. Coped well with baking fairy cakes and vol au vents and produced an acceptable roast chicken. Shows the temperature the oven is building up to what you have set and beeps when set temperature is reached. Drawbacks: Tricky to fit whole roast dinner in the oven at once, however, and potatoes were a bit soggy. Crumble was pale after the recommended cooking time. Grilling times were slow. Small viewing window makes it hard to check what's happening inside.

  Rating: 76/100

  Price Range: £394 - 500

  Stockist: 0870 595 0950 - http://www.zanussi.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of Stoves Accolade S3-600F built in electric oven

  Features

  Single oven, grill in oven roof. Cleaning: enamel lining. Drop down door. 5 settings: variable grill, fanned oven, defrost, grill and fan, steam cleanse. Digital clock and timer. Light in top right of oven. 2 shelves with 5 positions. Energy rating: A. Internal dimensions H30x W44x D38cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Simplistic fascia. One shelf had sliding rails. For the roast, all three items fitted in perfectly. Potatoes were nice and crispy; ones on outer edges were slightly darker. Drawbacks: Fingerprints easily showed up on touch screen black fascia. Fish fingers did not reach required temperature. Some of the fairy cakes did not rise well, but otherwise good results. Fruit cake slightly cracked, but good even colour. Vol au vents unevenly coloured and some did not rise well. Crumble was not evenly coloured, darker round edges. Doesn't show what temperature is on LCD screen building up to what you have set.

  Rating: 75/100

  Price: £400

  Stockist: 0871 222 2625 - http://www.stoves.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of Hotpoint SE48101PX built in electric oven

  Features

  Single oven, grill in oven roof. Cleaning: pyrolytic. Drop down door. 10 settings: multilevel, barbeque, gratin, low temperature 40C, 65C, 90C. Auto cooking modes: roast, baked cakes, pizza, and bread. Digital clock and timer. 2 lights in back right and back left of oven. 1 shelf with 5 positions. Energy rating: A. Internal dimensions H28x W44x D36cm. External dimensions H48x W59.5x D56.9cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Good quality fairy cakes and vol au vents. Well browned roast chicken. Bleeps when set temperature is reached. Drawbacks: No conventional heat setting. Quite dim lights, hard to see inside despite two lights. Hard to see inside whilst grilling. Have to press touch buttons quite hard, not very sensitive. Bad smears on LCD screen, easily shows up. Only one wire shelf, used tray. No separate grill pan, used wire shelf with dripping tray below. Hard to use when grilling fish fingers as the slats are wide on the wire shelf, laid them diagonally. Bulky in appearance due to controls being on handle. Fruit cake was slightly burnt on top and base with a tiny bit of cracking.

  Rating: 73/100

  Price Range: £743 - 939

  Stockist: 0800 092 1922 - http://www.hotpoint.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of De Dietrich DOP795X built in electric oven

  Features

  Single oven, grill in oven roof. Cleaning: pyrolytic with enamel lining. Drop down door. 11 settings: circulating heat, combined heat, eco heat, conventional, turbo grill and spit, high grill and spit, medium grill and spit, keeping things warm, defrosting, cooking guide function: selects the appropriate cooking parameters based on the food being prepared and its weight, intelligent cooking system: calculates all the cooking parameters with sensors. Digital clock and timer. Light in top left of oven. 2 shelves with 5 positions. Energy rating: A. Internal dimensions H29x W44x D34cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Easy to set temperature as it is displayed on LCD screen. Set temperature flashes until it is reached, beeps when reached. Drawbacks: Sliding racks often rolled out on their own. Hard to see middle shelf trays, light was blocked by top tray. High quantity of fairy cakes did not rise evenly. Fruit cake quite badly burnt on side nearest back oven cavity. Some vol au vents were badly stuck on the tray and the top shelf browned quicker than the middle shelf tray. Potatoes browned at the back but pale at the front, same with the crumble. Chicken was pale.

  Rating: 73/100

  Price Range: £899 - 1351

  Stockist: 0870 750 3503 - http://www.dedietrich.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of AEG D88005m built in electric oven

  Good Housekeeping Top Scorer

  Features

  Double oven, grill in top oven roof. Cleaning: enamel and stay clean coating. Drop down doors. Top oven settings: light, dual grill, economy grill, conventional cooking, base heat finishing, keep warm. Main oven settings: light, dual grill, economy grill, ventitherm precision fan cooking, hot air fan baking,  base heat finishing, conventional cooking, rotitherm roasting, pizza, fan controlled defrosting. Digital clock and timer. Light in both ovens. 1 shelf with 3 positions in top oven. 3 shelves with 6 positions in main oven. Energy rating: B/B. External dimensions H88.8x W59.5x D54.7cm. Internal dimensions top: H18x W43x D35cm. Main: H28x W43x D35cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Roast emerged beautifully cooked and evenly coloured from the main oven. The top oven made an excellent job of fairy cakes. Good selection of shelf levels, six in the main oven and five in the top. Display to show how hot oven is after cooking. Drawbacks: No sign or arrows on display to show that both ovens are on together except both lights being on. Fairy cakes and vol au vents didn't rise evenly in the main oven.

  Rating: 83/100

  Price Range: £796 - 800

  Stockist: 0870 535 0350 - http://www.aeg-electrolux.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of Neff U1442 built in electric oven

  Features

  Double oven, grill in top oven roof. Cleaning: enamel and cerami clean lining. Drop down doors. Top oven settings: oven light, top/bottom heat, large area grill, small area grill. Main oven settings: circotherm, top/bottom heat, surface grilling (large area grill), surface grilling (small area grill), circo-roasting, circotherm intensive, bottom heat, defrost. Digital clock and timer. Light in both ovens. 2 shelf positions in top oven and 4 shelf positions in main oven. 3 wire shelves included (comes with universal pan with wire shelf). Energy rating: B/A. External dimensions H88x W59.4x D55cm. Internal dimensions top: H14x W43x D37cm. Main: H29x W43x D37.

  Comments

  Good points: Good quality fairy cakes in main oven. Roast chicken and potatoes were of high quality. Drawbacks: Hard to see into grill when grilling bread, steamed up. Light in main oven is at top so hard to see items lower down in oven when full. Could not fit fruit cake in top oven, placed wire rack on bottom which sits on feet. Fish fingers soggy. Fairy cakes crispy around the edges but unevenly rose. Vol au vents badly burnt on bases in top oven as it was conventional heat. Fruit cake slightly burnt and cracked in main oven. Crumble was burnt on side nearest oven wall. Nothing to show how hot the oven is after cooking.

  Rating: 79/100

  Price Range: £667 - 750

  Stockist: 0844 892 9033 - http://www.neff.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of Belling XOU7OFP built under electric oven

  Features

  Built-under double oven, grill in top oven roof. Cleaning: enamel lining. Drop down doors. top oven settings: conventional, half grill, full grill. Main oven settings: Light, defrost, fan. Digital clock and timer. Light in both ovens. 1 shelf with 5 positions in top oven. 2 shelves with 10 positions in main oven. Energy rating: B/A. Internal dimensions top: H13x W44x D31cm. Main: H28x W44x D3cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Good results for fairy cakes in top and main oven. For the roast, all three items fitted in well. Chicken and potatoes browned nicely. Drawbacks: Fascia appears complicated. Glass panels would be better off larger, no need for all the stainless steel panelling. Noisy fan. Vol au vents in the top oven didn't rise well. Fruit cake in the main oven got quite burnt. Vol au vents scored poorly for the main oven as they did not rise well. Crumble was slightly burnt around edges.

  Rating: 78/100

  Price Range: £497 - 600

  Stockist: 0870 458 9663 - http://www.belling.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of Smeg DUC08CSS built under electric oven

  Features

  Built-under double oven, grill in top oven roof. Cleaning: stay Clean lining. Drop down doors. Top oven settings: light, upper and lower heating element, lower heating element, grill element, wide grill element. Main oven settings: light, grill element, wide grill element, upper heating element + ventilated heating element, defrosting, wide grill element + ventilation, grill element + ventilation, ventilated heating element. Digital clock and timer. Light in both ovens. 1 shelf and 2 positions in top oven. 1 shelf and 4 positions in main oven. Energy rating: A/A. External dimensions H71.8x W59.6x D56.8cm. Internal dimensions top: H15x W43x D34cm. Main: H28x W43x D34cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Good quality fairy cakes and vol au vents in main oven. Very good quality roast, everything cooked to perfection. Drawbacks: No fan setting in top oven, so fairy cakes and vol au vents got burnt on their bases. Fascia appears complicated.

  Rating: 78/100

  Price Range: £620 - 1175

  Stockist: 0870 990 9907 - http://www.smeguk.com

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of Bosch HBN56M551B built in electric oven

  Features

  Double oven, grill in top oven roof. Cleaning: enamel lining. Drop down doors. Top oven settings: top and bottom heating, 3D hot air, intensive hot air/pizza setting, bottom heat, hot air grilling, radiant grill (small area), radiant grill (large area). Main oven settings: top and bottom heating, bottom heat, radiant grill (small area), radiant grill (large area). Digital clock and timer. Light in both ovens. 1 shelf with 2 positions in top oven. 2 shelves with 5 positions in main oven. Energy rating: B/A. Internal dimensions top: H14x W41x D33cm. Main: H28x W41x D33cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Fairy cakes evenly coloured in top oven but some rose unevenly. Display to show how hot oven is after cooking. Drawbacks: Light in main oven is at top so hard to see items lower down in oven when full. Shelves do not slide in smoothly. Could not fit fruit cake in top oven, placed wire shelf on bottom which sits on feet. Roast potatoes and crumble unevenly browned.

  Rating: 75/100

  Price Range: £898 - 1300

  Stockist: 0844 892 8925 - http://www.boschappliances.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of John Lewis JLDUOS705 built under electric oven

  Features

  Built-under double oven, grill in top oven roof. Cleaning: catalytic lining. Drop down doors. top oven settings: conventional, dual grill, single grill, fan assist cooling. Main oven settings: Light, defrost, fan. Digital clock and timer. Light in both ovens. 1 shelf with 5 positions in top oven. 2 shelves with 14 positions in main oven. Energy rating: A/B. External dimensions H72x W59.3x D55cm. Internal dimensions top: H22x W34x D34cm. Main: H23x W43x D34cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Good quality roast chicken. Drawbacks: Too many shelf options in main oven, sometimes difficult to get wire rack even. Oven doors don't match up, glass on main oven stretches over further to right. Grill pan handle difficult to use. Fairy cakes in top oven rose unevenly but otherwise good results. Fruit cake in top oven was burnt on top and base. Despite using the fan assist button when cooking the vol au vents, bases were quite burnt and they did not rise well. Fairy cakes in main oven rose unevenly. Fruit cake in main oven was slightly soggy inside but burnt on top and base. Crumble slightly burnt. Potatoes were browner and crispier around edges, central ones were soggy.

  Rating: 75/100

  Price: £599

  Stockist: 0845 604 9049 - http://www.johnlewis.com

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of Whirlpool AKZ 551 built in electric oven

  Features

  Double oven, grill in top oven roof. Cleaning: catalytic lining. Drop down doors. Top oven settings: static, bottom heating element, single variable grill, dual variable grill. Main oven settings: MLTF (heat maintenance), static, pastry/fan, grill, turbogrill, fan/thermo-ventilated, turbofan, pizza/bread, booster. Digital clock and timer. Light in both ovens. 1 shelf with 3 positions in top oven. 2 shelves with 4 positions in main oven. Energy rating: A/A. External dimensions H89x W59.5x D56cm. Internal dimensions top: H18x W44x D34cm. Main: H28x W44x D34cm.

  Comments

  GH Good Deal. Good points: The Main oven produced good fairy cakes and vol au vents and the chicken and crumble were evenly browned. Controls are self-explanatory. Drawbacks: Fruit cake slightly burnt and potatoes were pale and not very crisp. Fairy cakes and vol au vent bases came out unevenly risen and slightly burnt in top oven. Difficult to set the temperature accurately as it goes up in 25C breaks. Instruction booklet brief. Cooling fan is noisy and the top oven shelves don't glide smoothly.

  Rating: 70/100

  Price: £540

  Stockist: 0870 600 8989 - http://www.whirlpool.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008

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  Review of Beko BE92FV built in electric oven

  Features

  Double oven, grill in top oven roof. Cleaning: AA grade easy clean enamel cavities in both ovens. Drop down doors. Top oven settings: conventional, bottom heat, half grill, full grill. Main oven settings: light, fan circle heating, defrost. Digital clock and timer. Light in top right in both ovens. 1 shelf with 2 positions in top oven. 2 shelves with 3 positions in main oven. Energy rating B/B. External dimensions H88x W59.6x D56.2cm. Internal dimensions top: H16x W42x D34cm. Main: H31x W42x D34cm.

  Comments

  Good points: Good quality fairy cakes. Chicken was well browned and crispy. Drawbacks: Top oven scored poorly on thermostat tests as the internal temperature was higher than what was set. Very small grill tray, can only fit two slices of bread. Fairly cakes and vol au vents burnt on bases in top oven. Fruit cake in top oven burnt very quickly, was also very hard to see into the oven to check its progress. Roast was cooked using fan setting and therefore the oven got quite messy. Crumble was very pale in centre. Potatoes at back of oven were slightly too brown, almost burnt.

  Rating: 69/100

  Price Range: £299 - 369

  Stockist: 0192 381 8121 - http://www.beko.co.uk

  GHI Test Report - November 2008