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Any recommendations for brands and suppliers? We are doing the kitchen and want to put a really good one in. It is the 'forever' home and will see plenty of use. Thinking we should be considering something more towards the commercial rather than the domestic as we are avid home cooks so would like something that can get to high temps etc. To be run on propane gas.
Thinking we should be considering something more towards the commercial rather than the domestic
Why is this - do you have a massive family and eat more than everybody else? 😉
Happy to be corrected, but I'm not sure there's much at all that needs to be cooked above 240c, which I'm sure most/all domestic ovens will do.
The only thing I cook higher is pizza which needs >450c and can pretty much only be achieved with a proper pizza oven.
Anyway, I had a Britannia range running on propane (for the hobs) for 16 years... It was fine for 5 of us but keeping the pan stands and stainless hob surface clean was an utterly royal PITA.
Extended the kitchen and changed to twin ovens and {large/spendy} induction hob 18 months ago - best decision I've made in a very long time (smarter, cleaner and much more controllable)
I'll never have a range again.
Don't suppose that really helps but it's my 2p worth.
The Britannia was OK - but I'm sure you can spend more money.
Minefield, in my experience. Really wanted a commercial oven/range at home that I could kick and abuse, but nobody wanted to answer whether the meter and supply could cope, what extraction was needed (much higher BTUs and CO2) and what the insurance implications are. I’m sure somebody knows, and it might be an easy answer, but damned if I could find them...
In the end we ended up with an induction hob and a few electric ovens. After 25 years of gas hobs, I’m surprised how controllable induction is and how quickly I’ve gotten used to it - I prefer it to gas. It’ll probably be more scratched than a scratched thing within a very short space of time but I’m dead impressed in terms of performance and control...
I'd love to go back to a couple of multifunction ovens and an induction hob.
We have a Kenwood electric range with gas hob (2 of the 6 rings are huge) and it is terrible. Came with the house, don't want to replace as wouldn't have a range again and that means redoing the kitchen.
Aye, we had one before, separates are a far better option.
Yeah, in hindsight I wouldn't bother. If I were going back in time I'd get separates,if nothing else it would stop food falling down the sides and the back
To counter all that we have a Smeg Opera range and I love it. 6 burners and a griddle plate plus 2 ovens underneath. Big dinners are a cinch, the main problem we have is finding storage for the extra pans we now have. Stainless steel so it's easy peasy to keep clean. IIRC it uses about 13kW gas for all the burners on at once. Our Boiler is 30kW at full pelt. That's 43kW total. If that's run on LPG You might struggle to run the range and a boiler from cylinders without a 2*2 setup (I think maximum for a 47kg cylinder is about 32kW) but if you have a tank then should be no problem at all.
I’ve always lusted after a Mercury. Get one of them, the look ace.
Stainless steel so it’s easy peasy to keep clean
It's not the stainless in itself that's a pain to keep clean is the fact that the hob tops are not flat and around the burners can be harder to keep clean.
Our pan stands were a shocker to keep clean - there were enameled so went grey if washed in the dishwasher which itself wasn't easy as they're big and awkwardly shaped.
Having used an induction hob for a while now gas hobs look incredibly crude.
(And we're 18 months in and no scratches)
How can a hob look crude? 😂
We have an Everhot electric range cooker. It's massive, 3 ovens, a warming oven, a large stovetop hotplate split in to 2 zones and a 4 ring induction hob.
It's a brilliant bit of kit but they cost a fortune to buy. Ours was in the house when we bought it, which was nice! 😊
We put a Falcon 1092 Continental in our kitchen. Ours is induction as there is. I mains gas where we are and it's been great. Yes there are some scratches on the glass but that's no real issue to be honest. I liked the 1092 as it has 2 full size ovens. It's been brilliant.
Smeg/Mercury/Falcon look like options that suit what we are after. Concerned now that we should be looking at separates going by the comments. I should have said ease of cleaning is #1 priority.
I have a Kenwood range dual fuel and really like it. I'm yet to find an induction hob that I like, I can see the positives but they all seem to have touch controls which are awful if you ever want to quickly change temperature
We've got a Mercury, it's 19 years old this year. Looking to re-do the kitchen this year. The Mercury stays.
Acquired a rangemaster with the last house I bought. Just be careful of widths as a lot of range ovens might only be 50 or 55 instead of 60 so some of your baking trays might not fit. Might have been ours but even on the lowest gas setting on the hob it was more of a rolling boil than a simmer and the grill in the oven hanging off the oven door was a pain
We have a Mercury range cooker. It’s bullet proof. It been in 15 years and the only thing we have replaced is one oven bulb last week.
We got ours before Aga bought them out so no idea what the quality is like now.
but they all seem to have touch controls which are awful if you ever want to quickly change temperature
Alot do. But it's not hard to find some that are not awful.
Had to cook on my in-laws one at Xmas . It was dreadful. Touch control to select the hob you want then another to put temp up or down .
Our AEG has ,4 seperate controls for each hob that you just touch the number you want it set to much quicker to adjust temp and much less of a pain in arse.
Having been stung by the former before I told the kitchen sales man that a hob like that would be a deal breaker so he speced the AEG for me.
they all seem to have touch controls which are awful if you ever want to quickly change temperature
Not all touch controls are made equal!
Had a few gas ranges and been on induction for 7 years now. Only thing that doesn’t work obvs is a Wok but we have a electric one for that. Only smashed it twice (don’t ask) so worth paying tiny amounts for insurance !
If cleaning is a priority then make sure your hob is induction. I was a gas fanboy but would never go back.
We have a Falcon 1000 range as I like the tall oven.
The best Induction hobs (multizone, etc) are standalone. Id also be tempted by 2 higher level side by side standalone ovens if the space worked.