I am using this cooker for 6 months and it is excellent. Heats up quickly and food is ready within a minute. Good quality product. Worth buying. The price is affordable. Recommended to friends and family.

Went for induction hob to minimise energy usage, and cleaning. Have certainly achieved this, and all pots & pans also stay like new, with no heat markings apart from frying pan. I bought a 'graded' or slightly blemished one online to reduce the ridiculous UK price, and paid £769 incl VAT & delivery in 2013. Firstly, I had to check compatibility of all cookpots, discarding all aluminium ones. Some of my random stainless-steel ones were magnetic (just test with a simple fridge magnet - no big deal) and some weren't, so out they went. I found a complete, new boxed set of SS pots & pans, all magnetic, on Gumtree at a bargain price. All worked perfectly, and still do. There's no mystique to the cookware despite loads of mumbo-jumbo abounding. If it's magnetiseable, it'll work! Watch out for the odd stainless-steel items, though, as above. It can be tricky finding a suitable good-quality non-stick frying pan at a budget price. Installation was very simple, directly replacing a ceramic hob cooker. I found the new hob remarkably easy to use, without reference to the booklet. Control is really precise and because only the pan is heated, the response is really fast. I could easily fry chips without discolouring the oil at all, enabling further re-cycling! Oven controls can be a bit overwhelming with options and choices, but there's something for every occasion. In fact, the easy-wipe control panel offers an option for everything one can possibly need in a cooker. The top oven was much bigger than my earlier 'standard' cooker, and the grill pan is enormous! The thin profile of the induction hob above it, helps in this respect. The instruction book quality is disappointing, with fonts, diagrams and explanations needing much enlargement. Luckily, just fiddling around is the best way! I'm dreading the situation arising if I need any repairs. Despite most electronic parts being, I'd bet, pretty fundamental, I expect hefty premiums to be added for the relevant 'special' AEG part number with much sucking of teeth during fault diagnosis in UK. One unanticipated problem arose. Due to the much reduced energy wastage, my unheated kitchen is very markedly cooler!