Hotpoint EW74 Width: 600mm Electric Cooker Reviews

+ Having the two good sized ovens, means you can cook for a large family.

- Having the controls where they are you can't see which control is which, it is ok once you get used to which control belongs to which ring.

+ love my new cooker its very easy to keep clean, looks lovely and shinny, cooks things really well, and very easy to use.

- no bad points

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- cant simmer in between numbers

+ Automatic fan cut off when main oven door is opened. Ceramic oven liners. We really bought this for it's specification and to replace as near as possible our old cooker. Price was good for this spec.

- Control knobs could be bigger digits and perhaps some sort of backlighting for them.

+ Looks nice and has caused us no problems yet! We haven't had it long though.

- We haven't found any yet.

+ Easy to clean, quick to heat up. Haven't burnt anything yet!!

- Took 2 qualified electricians over half an hour to connect to my supply, something about alan keys and the cover ??

+ Cooker looks good, plenty of oven space and easy to clean.Ceramic Hob very responsive, happy with cooking results of both Hob and Oven.

- Food has to be in oven longer and at a higher heat than expected for a Fan Assisted Oven

+ easy to follow instructions

- Not Fully Use yet

+ easy to clean light stays on to warn that rings our still warm both ovens our great to use really easy to use and looks great

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+ Really easy to use and dead straight forward with easy clean interior!!

- Not found any so far!!

+ Easy clean, efficient & good appearance.

- Not enough shelves in cooker.

+ Easy to use and keep clean

- None so far

+ Simple, quick and easy to use. Looks good too.

- None really.

+ Easy to use and easy to clean good design and performance.

- none

+ Good consistent results! Easy to clean and robust.

- None so far.

+ Both ovens heat up to temperature very quickly

- Top dials seem to operate in the reverse direction from what you would expect.

+ Compact and easy to use and clean, Double oven usefull when cooking larger meal

- None, fit for what I use it for and my family size

+ Easy to use controls. Large glass area for viewing.

- Only 2 shelves in large oven. Fan blows hot air out of front making kitchen very hot.

+ It is a great oven and has cooked our 26lb Christmas Turkey wonderfully!!

- The dial on the grill has broken.

+ We have had no problems with this oven at all, it looks great, the top oven/grill is fab if you're only cooking a small amount, and the hobs are so easy to clean - no taking everything apart and washing it all seperatly, we just wipe it over as you do your counter's - much quicker and simpler!!

- Does have to be connected by a n electrician which we were not made aware of at the time of purchase, other than that nothing!!

+ easy to keep clean

- some top temp are a bit low. top oven takes a while to heat up

+ easy to clean, looks good, nice easy product to use whilst offering the extra's like timer etc.

- NONE

+ Fan Oven
Timer
Child Lock
Energy Efficient

- Hobbs can get quite dirty - but all u need is a good hob cleaner and you sorted
Could have done with an oven rotating skew, but many new cookers don't have this

+ It's a very nice looking, easy to use cooker which also has ideal oven sizes if you're constantly cooking for 4 or more people

- If I had to be pushed, I'd say that the cooling fan takes a little while to turn off after you've finished using the ovens/grill but thats easily recitified by leaving the doors open after taking the food out

+ big oven,easy to keep clean

- none

+ Design very good with easy to use controls, esthetically very good

- Nothing has yet come to our attention

+ Simple, neat design, would fit in well with most kitchens. Very easy to use. Fantastic value for money.

- Still find myself having to read the words underneath the knob to see which ring it's for. A little diagram like most cookers have on them would have been much better. Sometimes feel that the main oven isn't as hot as it should be but possibly last cooker was too hot!

+ Very easy to use and stylish. I wanted somethng that wasn't too expensive but would last and i feel that this oven is definately this.

- Haven't found anything bad about it yet!

+ Stylish design, easy to use & easy to clean.

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+ the cooker looks good, and fitted perfectly. the instructions were easy to follow and using the cooker could not be simpler. Cleaning.... this is the worst part of owning a cooker.... not this time...simple to clean too

- hmmmm none that i found yet

+ Fully programmable and really easy to set! Great for a busy lifestyle!

- None.

+ Stylish, solid feel to knobs and doors, quick heating rings, half grill setting, two ovens.

- Grill tray doesn't fit in oven when handle is attached! (and it's a screw fitting). Check of temperature in oven revealed 5 - 10c lower than knob indicated.

+ Attractive looking - easy to clean - easy to use - my cooking has improved!

- None that I have discovered to date.....

+ the oven temperature is right and the top oven is of a capacity large enough to hold dishes holding a main meal. vegetables and potatoes and a pudding all at the same time.By keeping the shelves from my last cooker I can do a large baking in the bottom oven.

- I would have preferred control knobs the same colour as the cooker that pushed in when not in use and the doors with the curved ,less out-standing handles of my last model the EW 81.Ido not like the colour of the knobs amnd handles I feel they are too prominent.

+ Speed of heating up. Warning lights for hot plates. Internal Light. Size. Ease of installation (did it myself). Colour. Easy-to-use alarm.

- Dials not easy to see which hob is which. Glide rails for shelves a bit stiff (may smooth out with time)

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- loose knob after a week

+ Easy to use and clean. Energy efficient. Very good value for money.

- Control descriptions are under the knobs, which makes them difficult to see at a glance.

+ Easy to use and clean. Heats up quickly.

- Have to screw handle on to grill pan to use which is a pain, so have kept old grill pan. Doesn't tell you how to get oven light cover off in handbook to change the bulb.

+ heats up quickly, efficient oven, easy to clean

- time on clock easily altered if you lean against the buttons, as my children constantly do!

+ Generally a very nice unit

- Have not yet found any

+ the design is fantastic, its very easy to use

- there are no bad points

+ Electric but hob is very responsive. Looks good.

- Dials could be a little firmer.

+ clean appearance and easy to use - looks good

- grill pan handle needs re-designing

+ Simple and practical

- Stainless steel seems to scratch quite easily

+ Easy to clean hob. Easy to use timer. Looks good

- Haven't found any yet

+ it looks a bit like a range cooker in a sort of way, and as we can not get gas out here in some parts of kent its the best value oven we could find,

- its grill is to low, and we would prefer an overhead seperate grill in a perfect world, but hey, you cant have it all !

+ Smart design and finish, fantastic cooking in the fan oven, roasts meat beautifully and evenly.

- Hard to turn on hob rings as the writing telling you which is which is below the knob and quite faint to read. Frustrating. The grill seems to take quite a while to get up to heat, but very efiicient once it gets going.

+ Easy to use

- Temperatures in the oven are lowerr than claimed - infuriating.

+ looks great

- stove is slow to heat up

+ 1-Two ovens are large,2-a light in the oven to let you see your food cooking,3-its fan assisted,4-the oven turns off when door is open which is a good safety feature,5-a timer to let you decide how long you want something to cook for.

- The hobs dont cool down quick enough,so it would have been a good idea to put a pull down glass lid or something.But overall not bad for money.

+ Very east to clean and looks good.

- It is not very clear which knob controls which ring. The fan in the oven is quite noisy and I would say it does not cook that much faster than a conventional oven but it does still cook perfectly well.

+ Clean simple design. Multi functions.

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+ great just what i wanted very ecomical also looks good

- none

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- Oven slow to reach temperture, shuts off when the door is open then takes a long time to regain temperture.

+ modern appearance

- grill pan sticks on rack in upper oven so that door unable to close when not on.

+ It is very stylish in appearance and cleaning both inside and out is easy. Programming the oven is simple to understand. I prefer this model to the EW84x, because of it's ease of use.

- The top oven becomes very warm when the bottom oven is in use and although this could be a handy feature for plate warming, it makes me wonder how good the insulation is between the ovens. When we are all so concerned with fuel economy and the environment, it seems to be wasted energy.

+ Stainless steel, easy to keep clean.

- None as yet.

+ stylish looks, good performance,

- was not supplied with elecrtic cable

+ Easy to use, good to look at.

- The ceramic hob scratches very easily, even though I have been so careful with it. The fan oven is not as hot as my previous Hotpoint oven.

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- no child locks so must watch small children

+ easy instalation, responsive hobs, cooker temps.

- use of dials.

+ Easy clean hob and speedy heating up of oven is excellent.

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+ This cooker looks fab and not all cheap plastic buttons like a lot of them. The ovens work really well and the hob heats up quickly.

- As with all glass top hops it's a bit of a pain to clean but looks great when it has been. The only real bad point that I can think of specific to this cooker is that the main oven door tends to close on your arm as you are taking the food in and out of the oven. This could be an uneven floor, I guess, but my floor is ceramic tiles and it looks level enough to me

+ easy to use and looks good

- stainless steel shows up every mark

+ Very good oven, easy to use, easy to clean. Grill is excellent. Does not leave fingermarks on the silver finish.

- The only little niggle i have is the markings on the controls, instead of them being a dot so you can quickly see which ring you want to turn on, it is written in words, which takes you a few more seconds to work out which one you want to turn on. maybe this is something i will get used to.

+ Good overall easy to use no problems so far

- no bad point yet

+ Excellent value for money. The split grill makes it more economic, I like the lights on hob warning you the zones that are still hot or in use. Good that the fan cuts out on the main oven when you open the door as I used to get a hot blast from my last fan oven.

- Slightly hard to see which knob operates which ring on hob but I'm sure I will get used to them.

+ really good design and looks great.especially in stainless steel. good performance.controls and safety features very efficient

- Would prefer the wording (eg. "Oven, Grill, Back Right, Front Left, etc") to be above the knobs rather than under them, as it would be much easier to see.

+ nice design and easy to use

- nothing

+ Good all-rounder and value for money.

- None

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- Which ring is which indicator is below the knobs therefor you have to bend to see which knob is for which ring

+ Heats up really quickly. Most of it is easy to keep clean.

- the grill is hard to clean and sometimes smokes

+ The grill spreads heat evenly across the grill pan.

- It didn't come with connecting wire.

+ It does what it says on the tin!

- The main oven fan is a bit noisier than I would like, but apart from that its fine.

+ style/easy clean/removable glass/

- oven control works opposite way round from ring controls

+ really good controlable heat on rings and ovens.

- clock is fiddly difficult to set

+ Timers seen easy to understand and use

- Grill pan seems a bit flimsy

+ Does exactly what a cooker should do, cooks food! Easy to use, easy to clean. Fast response.

- None

+ carnt fault it best buy ever for a cooker

- none

+ easy to use and clean - smooth lines

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+ Easy to use and easy to clean

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+ twin ring handy saves electric when using small pot
Great delivery and fitting rhe item when I wanted it
Quite nice to look at

- directions under controls faint hard to see but I suppose I will get to know them eventually. Sight not as good as it was

+ Neat, easy to fit, automatic timer works well.

- I find the side opening oven door gets in the way in our small kitchen

+ Very similar to the creda I had before, so did not need to read through acres of manual before using it for the first time. Does what it says on the tin. Metal handle on grill tray

- difficult to see which ring you are turning on as the description is below the dial. warning that ring is hot is rubbish if only one is on as just a red dot floating in space and could be any ring. no child lock on controls, yet within easy reach of little fingers

+ Nice looking and easy to use.

- Havn't yet figured out how to set the timer!!!

+ Easy to use, quick to heat

- none

+ Designed and made very well
Easy to keep clean

- Hob marks very wasy
Grill pan handle gets very hot and is quite dangerous
Takes time to warm up

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- On connection by electrician black casing was difficult to open. Grill tray handle a bit flimsy

+ Unlike the almost identical Cannon we nearly chose, the stay clean oven liners are the same in both ovens, so shelves are interchangeable. The easy hook on grill handle means there are less fussy bits to clean, just the basic pan, which stores easily. Smooth lines and not too many little corners, so far means easy to clean. Dual zone solarglo ring is very useful to deal with different size pans, is a little more controllable and quicker than other rings. Like the split grill for cooking for just two of us, no wasted heat. Hot hob warning lights. Timer and oven timer.

- Still not yet used to which knob controls which ring, and labels being underneath makes it harder, would prefer a simple symbol above the knob for at a glance recognition. Wish all the rings were solarglo, made a mistake thinking they were before buying, as had been on old Belling. Just seem a little more variable and quicker to heat, (but without the cost of halogen and all the features that one never uses that come on halogen models). Also miss knobs that can't be turned on accidently when cleaning etc, but then no other models seemed to have these now, not sure why.

+ The oven cooks very evenly and the rings heat up quickly.

- I can't think of any.

+ Fan assisted oven is good and the clock with minute minder

- The operation of the twin grill and double ring are confusing

+ you have a dual purpose ring so is energy efficient,a bigger size oven and top oven so can cook more at any one time.Great when you hav e the whole family over.

- Slightly different from my last cooker, so took me a little while to get familar with it.

+ Heats up quickly. Good safety feature, lights on the top show when it is still hot.

- Grill pan doesn't sit in properly when the door is shut

+ The price was good

- oven doesn't heat up properly. The dials are quite puzzling

+ easy to operate and easy to clean, looks stylish, and we are very happy with the product.

- none we can thoink of so far.

+ Style and Use

- Not enough shelves inside oven as standard.

+ Fan in main oven switches off as you open oven door - stops you getting blasted in the face with hot air

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+ Oven works great - heats up quickly & can now bake bread buns without having to move them from shelf to shelf.
Also like the half grill option very handy.

- Still getting used to the hobs - I'm used to gas hobs & it takes longer for pan to heat up - then quickly over boils. Mind you it might also help if I didn't abandon the pan whilst cooking.

+ Double oven. Stylish design. Value for money Warning light to tell you hob/rings are still hot - goes off when cool. Stay clean inteerior, so only floors need wiping.

- Ceramic hob marks easily and has to be cleaned immediately after any spills. Needs special cleaners.

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- Doesnt seem to be as hot as my last fan oven ... things take a little longer to cook