Your cooker.

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

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 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.

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'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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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!.

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.

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

All this talk of cookers has set me dreaming of a double oven with 5 gas rings ?. I rent at the moment and the white goods aren't mine. I'm hoping for a move this year (A whole different thread) but highly doubt I'm going to be able to afford the cooker of my dreams! I love cooking and baking but as most days now it's just me maybe a double oven with 5 gas rings is OTT ?

I had a Neff gas hob and single electric oven for 18 years until we moved to a newbuild bungalow. I had no major complaints, but now appreciate the beauty of the white hob that still looked as good as new after all those years. I hate the stainless steel kitchen appliances that came with the house. The hob barely looks clean for five minutes, and scratches so easily! I can see that I'ts one of the first things that I'll want to replace in the future, though I realise that it is quite difficult to find white hobs and ovens. They also installed a built in microwave with a black glass door and control panel which is constantly covered in fingerprints.(altogether, the kitchen is not too practical as the 'luxury' stone work tops chip and stain so easily) I feel like suggesting to the builder that they make more sensible choices in future.

I used to have a ceremic hob on my cooker, but swapped it for a new one with an induction hob. I cannot praise it highly enough! It reacts instantly when I want the temperature to go up or down, it heats up quickly, and I recommend induction to anyone who says they are getting a new cooker. I did have to change my pans, but it was worth it in a big way!

I've noticed a few references to grilling toast. Does this mean toasters have gone out of fashion? Reading about eye level gas grills reminds me of the cooker we had in the kitchen of our student house 40 odd years ago - I remember singed eyebrows & hair on more than one occasion when grilling toast after a night out clubbing....ah, happy days! Wish we'd had a toaster then!

I also have a Neff electric fan oven which I love! And yes, the self clean function is a real bonus. I do have a gas hob as I think they are so easy to adjust.
Not that I’m planning to move house, but if I did, I’d have the same again.

Hygena gas oven with eye level separate grill purchased from MFI (remember them?) in 1996. Kept this unit when Kitchen redone in 2005 still working though timer /clock has conked out and automatic ignition a bit iffy. Have a Neff gas hob.

For 35 years I cooked with gas and I loved its responsiveness. But then we moved and now it has to be electric as there is no gas in our area. I have two single ovens (both Candy) and a five station induction hob (Neff). I love the hob, it's super fast, easy to use and easy to clean. The ovens are OK but I don't like the grills being in the ovens, it is impossible to clean the roof of the oven above the element. Removing the door to be able to reach inside to clean the back wall of the oven is a two person task. The ovens cook OK, temperature is fairly accurate but the timer is difficult to use so I just use a separate clockwork timer. I also have a built in microwave which, although it is the same power rating as my old freestanding model, it doesn't cook as fast,, so when the kids and GC come to stay we get the old one out of the loft as backup! Kitchen appliances are horrendously expensive now but I don't think the quality is any better and I doubt that many of them will last 40 years as mother's cooker did.

Before we downsized from our house we took our Belling electric cooker, double oven & ceramic hob with us. We couldn't use it as property we bought had a built in electric oven & separate gas hob which I loved apart from having to put the whole oven on to use the grill.

When I moved into my present property the kitchen was only a year old. Gas hob with electric oven under, a make I've never heard of & no instruction manual. I don't use the grill function as you have to close oven door resulting in burnt toast & smoke detector going off & guess, also not eye-level like my previous one. I would like to replace the oven but am more likely to invest in a combi microwave instead. I don't do much baking now & as I'm only cooking for myself now it makes more sense

Had a Zanussi with ceramic hob until the grill stopped working. Got a new Zanussi with induction hob and absolutely love it; the hob is so responsive, just like gas, and so easy to just wipe over. It has two ovens and the grill is in the top one, which is ok. Just cannot get the measure of the main oven for baking cakes though. I don't bake a lot, perhaps a couple of times a year, but my cakes are either very undercooked or very overcooked. Sausage rolls and mince pies though, were fine at Christmas. Casseroles and roast dinners are great.

I now have an electric Aga and love it. It has independent hotplates which heat up really quickly, the oven is always hot (except when I turn it off in hot weather) and I have a folding rack to dry all my washing when the weather is bad. It bakes really evenly, unlike my old cooker which always burnt the edges of cakes---and it looks lovely, dove grey and black. I wouldn't change it for the world.

My "cooker" is a collection of two individual electric hotplates, small grill/oven from Lidl and a microwave.
Keep thinking of getting a real cooker but it hasn't happened yet.

Another thumbs up for induction here.