Built in Electric Ovens

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Anne121

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Hello I am currently upgrading our kitchen and want to buy a built in electric oven as I am a keen cook & baker I am looking for an oven either 2 single or a double that allows me to cook and bake.....
De Detrich were my preference but a guy in a kitchen show room told me that De Detrich are no longer the realiable brand they once were. What about Neff, AEG, Bosh, Siemens I am finding it impossible to get accurate reviews.
Help.....
So basically I want an oven either single or double that has accurate temperature controls to allow me to cook and bake. And more importantly will LAST.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you
 
It is very hard to know which is best, maybe you could sign up for the 'Which' magazine trial and have a look at their results.

I bake a lot and put in a new oven couple of years ago, I went for mid range price and got a Bosch, it has a slightly wider oven cavity than most ovens which can be very handy. If I had the room and could afford it I would put in 2 single ovens rather than a double as I have found the second oven on a double not much use really. I now only have a single oven but I actually mainly use it for baking, at the moment the chicken roasting for lunch is in a halogen oven in the utility room.

For baking I think it is important that the oven has a static function as well as the fan, most do to be fair but the odd one does not. My previous oven was a whirlpool, useless piece of rubbish for baking but fine oven if you wanted to roast something. Wouldn't mind but I bought the top of the range at the time, many years ago now, was newly launched multifunction oven that was practically going to bake the cakes itself, it was awful, fan was so strong that as soon as the buns rose to top of tin it basically blew the mixture over the edge.
 
I feel the most important aspect of any oven is the pyro-clean as it saves a lot of hard and dirty work.

Our De Dietrich has been ok but it was bought around 2003.

I asked a repair guy which brand he thought was best and he mentioned Neff. Bosch and Siemens are two very good brands also. Miele are excellent but very expensive.
 
Funny thing is I have that pyroclean system on my oven and have never yet used it, maybe because I use it mainly for baking it doesn't get that dirty, quick wipe usually does it.

Bosch, Siemens, Neff & Gaggenau are all from same manufacturers so probably similar basis with more frills for dearer brands.
 
We have a Bosch single oven and a Bosch Combination Microwave stacked together.

The Combo oven does everthing a convential oven does together with the microwave facility. We've had them about three years now and have used the convential oven only once.

Don't know if it's only Bosch, but the microwave doesnt have a turntable; the microwave bit (note the technical term) revolves behind a glass plate.

MrsK swears by Bosch - I swear if I'm asked to do anything more than toast!
 
Thanks everyone for your feedback. I think I will (if budget allows it) buy two single ovens 1 conventional and 1 multifuctional oven. Still undecided on the brand- hard to tell which is the best....
 
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