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“Stoves Not What They Used To Be”

written by studio500 on 31/05/2011

I have owned several Stoves Ovens in the past.

Our latest purchase was the Electric Stoves 61 ehdo.
This was not a cheap oven by any means however I was happy to pay the premium in a trusted name like Stoves. All my previous ovens were excellent but sadly this model falls far short in terms of quality, reliability and performance.

As other reviewers have stated the knobs do indeed all break and crack within the first 12 months.

The glass top cooking surface of the oven scratches very easily and looks shoddy after a few months of usage.

To top that off on my oven all the heat rings now only operate on full maximum heat even when they are set on low, suggesting that the regulators have now packed up too as they have each gone one by one just a few months apart.

The oven is very erratic in temperature, sometimes too hot sometimes too cool.

I basicaly have a large lump of steel in my kitchen that only a scrap metal merchant would love to own.

Not a good purchase in my opinion and not what Stoves used to be.

Stay away is my only advice.