Belling Forum 317 Width: 500mm Electric Cooker Reviews

+ The rings heat rapidly and have no 'hotspots'. The cooker is easy to keep clean.

- The clock is a little tricky to set.

+ Easy to se and clean

- None todate

+ double oven good size

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+ easy to use

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+ Easy to clean,fast heat-up rings,good timer

- Flimsy adjustable feet,slightly noisy fan

+ Compact, easily cleaned, effective, acurate cooking times.

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+ The grill is seperate from the oven, which means both can be used at same time. Its a fan oven. Its not as wide as some ovens and handy to fit in smaller space.

- Havent really got any.

+ Relatively easy to use.
Reliable

- Don't much like the fake 'chrome(ish)/silver' finish!

+ looks great

- oven seems to take a while even though its fan assisted

+ Available at good price for double oven as end of line.
Bizarrely we quite like it, despite all the flaws.

- DESIGN:
Unnecessarily fiddly to install with ridiculously small and lightweight wiring terminals.
No height adjustment, just front to back levelling, so only about 89cm high. Fine if your worktops are industry standard height exactly, otherwise tough luck. Other cookers can be raised 30mm higher.
No space at back of cooker to allow for pipes etc meaning might not push flush to wall. Other cookers have all free space under the rear vent.
If you power off the oven (as is sensible, especially with toddlers around) you lose the clock setting and so have to press two buttons before fan over can work.
Clock and timer setting needlessly fiddly. PERFORMANCE:
Poor energy ratings.
Fan oven has very poor thermostat. Switches oven off and on several times before gets to temperature.
Both ovens only tend to get to about ten degrees below set temperature, sometimes twenty.
Ovens slow to warm up.

+ Compact and neat loooking

- Dials are not marked so you can't see whether the rings or on or off and have been left on by mistake. The knobs turn anti clockwise which is frustrating. Oven door has gap at top and is not sealed so all steam food etc goes down and you have to unscrew the glass to clean. The fan oven does not seem hot enough to say it's a fan oven it cooks unevenly. It does not explain how to get the grill to work independent from the top oven. I've had two Belling cookers and loved them but this is a huge disapointment

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- the only bad point i can see is that there is no light in the main oven

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- No light on when rings are on. Easy to leave rings on by mistake which is dangerous.

+ easy to clean easy to use

- no bad points as yet

+ attractive, practical,

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