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Don’t buy a double oven. The second oven is often smaller. Instead buy two single ovens.

Last year we had a kitchen revamp and have a Rangemaster classic deluxe, which we both regret buying. It’s an expensive purchase and would never recommend. It looks beautiful but that’s about it. Gas hob and two electric ovens. The burners are temperamental and we have had to get an engineer out twice for one burner. It cooks well, for now in the oven, but I can’t see it lasting very long. All the knobs are flimsy for the oven, made from foil covered plastic, rather than stainless steel. A disappointing purchase.

We have no gas here, and I'd always had gas before so didn't fancy slow old electric. I therefore got a calor gas cooker. However, when I put the oven on, at least twice when I opened the oven door a mini fireball blew out at me, scary.

I got rid, and replaced with a Electrolux induction hob and double oven, which I love. Fast to cook, very clean and no knobs etc. Doesn't turn on when cats walk over it either, unlike my friends' ceramic hob!.

I disagree with not buying a double oven ,but two singles.
This would take up more space but also costly for a small amount to be cooked and midweek meals.
In the past the smaller oven would be inefficient, but not now.
With just two of us I feel it is ideal, mine are, large either fan or conventional, small one conventional.

My aga is a very expensive pet!!
I live alone and don't cook much,in fact dog biscuits are the only thing that have been in the oven this year,but I always have a warm kitchen and would really miss it.

lovingit a pet with an excellent pedigree! and we all love a warm kitchen, only problem was that when I had an Aga I felt that I should be cooking all of the time.

I`ve always had the traditional standing cooker, electric for the first few years, then calor gas for a few years, but been on mains gas now for over 30 years.
I had a new kitchen installed last June, complete with what I`ve always wanted, an oven built in at chest height, and a hob on top of the worktop. It all looks very nice, but what hadn`t struck me when I ordered it was that the grill is inside the oven, and it`s ridiculous! Instead of side to side like every grill I`ve ever had, this is a strip from back to front straight down the middle, and it takes FOREVER to cook anything, even toast, which takes so long it ends up rock hard! So I`ve now stopped having toast. and have bought a George Foreman grill for other things.

9 Years, gas hob separate electric ovens. One is a microwave and combination oven, really swishy. Except I have never got around to working out how to get the best out of it. Not my best buy

I've have a very old Parkinson Cowen mink 11 gas cooker which must be at least thirty years old. It has an eye level grill, and a very handy draw at the bottom of the oven to store tins etc. I have to light the grill and the oven with a long lighter or matches. I really need a new one but after looking around I don't really like what I'm seeing, we both have bad knees and backs so getting down on the floor to remove items out of the oven is not ideal.

I've noticed that most AGA owners have another more standard cooker, usually electric in the corner. Why have a big expensive cooker like an AGA if it has to have a back up. Why not keep the back up, dispense with the AGA and save thousands.

Longpinknails I have the same cooker as you, bought a couple of years ago. I haven't had your problems, but I have problems. The right hand oven pops open again, unless you shut it slowly and firmly. I assume because it has a magnetic catch and the fan assisted oven blows it open. The oven also blasts a gust of very hot air in my face whenever I open it, I now do not open it unless I have turned it off first, even if only for a few seconds. The grill is unadjustable and far too close to the cooking element. Anything thicker than a thick slice of bread has the filling pushed off as you push the grill pan in.

I think I have the same, or very similar one, though quite a bit older. I have no problems like that. My main problems are the numbers rubbing off the controls.

We could just fit in a small cream Rangemaster, which we bought two years ago. It looks a lot better than it performs, but is a vast improvement on the one we bought to replace our faithful old Flavel Diana, which we’d had since the 70s. I loved the Diana - it was so solid, with a big eye level grill with full rotisserie that would cook a whole chicken, and we used it all the time. I wish we’d kept it, despite it looking so dated. The man who fitted the replacement warned us we’d regret it, and how right he was. The Rangemaster oven goes out if you shut the door too quickly and as well as being badly designed, as M0nica says, the grill is so pathetically weak I’ve had to buy a toaster.

I inherited an Aga when we bought our house and was a bit worried as I'd tried to use one in a holiday property and kept burning things!! Now I wouldn't be without it! I have an electric hob (which I don't like) and oven as back up but mainly gook on the Aga