Nobody who uses this has had a say in the matter. Either they can't afford better or, like me, they're renting. It's made to meet the legal minimum for rental properties and no more. The price reflects it. The good: • hotplates heat up quickly. The bad: • not energy efficient - the oven takes an hour to reach 180ºC. Using it twice a week increased my electricity bill 400%. • absurd heat distribution in oven - this will burn the bottom of everything no matter where you put it. the top will be raw. honestly impressive feat if it didn't result in the most depressing meals. • limited oven functionality - the model i'm using has an oven OR grill feature. can't do both, which is frustrating because: see above. i would simply love to cook from the top and bottom at the same time but that's somehow impossible in 2025. • a stove for ants - three small hotplates, one medium. when I say small, I mean they will fit a milk pan. the medium fits a 20cm frying pan. good luck trying to cook more than two servings of pasta. • nonsense arrangement of hotplate knobs - the knobs correspond to a clockwise arrangement of the hotplates, meaning if you've ever used any other stovetop, ever, you'll end up accidentally turning on the front left plate instead of the back left one. each 'feature' of this unit is so counterintuitive so as to make preparing any meal an uphill battle. which leads to its final selling point: if you're a landlord, a surefire way to reduce oven repair bills is to get this appliance to eviscerate any joy your tenants may find in cooking so, hopefully, they stop. complete the set with a revolving door of renters and a mostly empty property with reduced rent. awful appliance built to serve parasites.

Everything works just fine ... Improvements include ... 1. Splash back could be a lot taller especially were there's a brick or porous wall behind. I had to make one to fit on top to stop splattering onto brickwork. 2. A light inside the oven would be very handy and probably one would expect to have one in 2025. 3. Grill should have had a temperature control. It gets particularly hot and is very easy to burn food when relying on the thermostat to regulate heat. You really have to keep an eye on anything you are cooking under the grill. Just a few simple improvements to make it a pretty good product. Overall value for money.

I wish I had been able to afford a better stove.