Falcon 211 GGO Review

Overall Rating

Looks stylish. Name has some snob value.

Results no better than cheaper cooker, unreliable, Falcon don't care when it breaks out of warranty.

Had this 6 years. Paid £2,800-could have got cheap make for £600-700. Wish I had. Only had domestic use. 2 years ago thermocouple went on one oven (£150), now grill and oven stopped working, dealer has quoted £550 +vat (£650) to repair. No movement from dealer or Falcon, whose attitude is similarly it's got a 3 year warranty which has expired. That's legally quite correct but I paid 4 times the price of a cheap brand at that time, this product has "Professional Kitchen Ranges" prominently stamped on it- as does all their advertising material- and after 6 years of normal domestic use the thing is so knackered that it will cost 25% of bloated purchase price to repair. It wasn't even a brilliant cooker to begin with, the ovens in particular seeming unable to cook pizzas adequately without burning them. I thoroughly recommend anyone looking at these products to reconsider - I was a victim of my own brand snobbery and am paying for it now. Off to get a cheap Belling or similar, chuck it away if it breaks, alternatively Smeg/Laconche etc. Note part of Aga/Rayburn/Stanley/Rangemaster group so I'm not going near these either.