Hotpoint BU72 Electric Oven reviews

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8.6 out of 10 based on 57 reviews.

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Overall rating	8.6
Ease of use	8.7
Design	8.5
Performance	8.8
Features and programmes	7.9
Value for money	8.7

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Clive, Birmingham Family cook

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Controls that push in so they are flush. Really easy to install, even though built in sits on the floor with four adjustable legs. Self clean liners. Dual grill and really fast to reach temperature.
Bad points:: Minute timer alarm needs to be louder.

Overall rating	9.0
Ease of use	8.0
Design	9.0
Performance	8.0
Features and programmes	9.0
Value for money	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 27 Apr 2010

Confirmed purchaser Family cook

Score 3.0/10

Good points:: Design
Bad points:: Botton oven door difficult to clean between the two pieces of glass
Food doesnt cook evenly

Overall rating	3.0
Ease of use	6.0
Design	8.0
Performance	3.0
Features and programmes	5.0
Value for money	3.0

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Confirmed purchase: 22 May 2010

sheila, ipswich Family cook

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: grill
Bad points:: none

Overall rating	9.0
Ease of use	9.0
Design	10.0
Performance	10.0
Features and programmes	9.0
Value for money	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 19 Feb 2010

Confirmed purchaser Family cook

Score 4.0/10

Good points:: The oven looks nice. It heats up quickly.
Bad points:: The top oven/grill door fell off on the second day of using it and I suspect there may be more trouble to come with these hinges. Hotpoint can only give me a repair date (not time) of nearly 2 weeks after phoning them. I understood that fan ovens were wonderful at cooking evenly but this one doesn't seem to be the best. Having saved up for years for a new oven maybe I was expecting too much but it's definately not as robust as my previous 25 year old gas oven

Overall rating	4.0
Ease of use	5.0
Design	1.0
Performance	4.0
Features and programmes	5.0
Value for money	5.0

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Confirmed purchase: 18 Aug 2010

Confirmed purchaser Family cook

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Fan oven heats up quickly. Nice wide ovens easily fits 2 trays side by side. Self cleaning sides brilliant.
Bad points:: Fan oven doesn't cook evenly i.e. food has to be turned half way through cooking. Fan quite noisy.
Although it states in the instruction book that the main oven light can be on without the fan or heat the knob does not turn far enough to reach the light icon which is at the 11 o'clock position and would have to be turned right through all the heat settings to get to it. A big mistake I think.

Overall rating	8.0
Ease of use	9.0
Design	8.0
Performance	8.0
Features and programmes	8.0
Value for money	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 17 Aug 2010

Confirmed purchaser Family cook

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Very good product. easy to use and clean. quiet operation and good visibility in both ovens. Recommend to all, very good for price.
Bad points:: Only slight down side is that small items can fall off back of oven shelves.

Overall rating	9.0
Ease of use	9.0
Design	8.0
Performance	9.0
Features and programmes	10.0
Value for money	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 09 Jun 2010

Confirmed purchaser

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Good colour match for our brown kitchen
Bad points:: Hard to select exact temperature setting

Overall rating	8.0
Ease of use	7.0
Design	7.0
Performance	8.0
Features and programmes	6.0
Value for money	6.0

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Confirmed purchase: 01 Mar 2010

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Product Features

Construction	Built-in
Built-in machines have a cabinet door attached to the front of them so that they look like the rest of your kitchen. Freestanding machines can be seen and the machine can be placed in any position in your kitchen.
Fuel	Electric
Oven cavity	Double

Main heating type	Convection
Conventional ovens heat from the bottom so the top of the oven will be slightly hotter than the bottom. This is useful when you’re cooking lots of different dishes at a time. However, they do take a little longer than fan ovens to heat up. Convection (or fan) ovens circulate the air so that you get an even temperature throughout the oven. They are quicker to heat up which means they save on energy and time. Multifunction (convection or conventional) ovens give you the flexibility to use different methods of cooking. They usually have both fan and conventional settings as well as pizza settings that will only cook from the bottom, giving you a crispy pizza, or top-only cooking that is very useful for browning.
Secondary heating type	Grill
Cooking program	No
Extra functions	Display

Extra functions	Clock

Type of self cleaning	Catalytic
Self-cleaning ovens can come with catalytic liners or pyrolytic programmes. Calalytic liners are the bumpy surfaces which line the inside walls of the oven. They absorb the food and grease and break it down so that the oven is easier to clean. Pyrolytic programmes run for a couple of hours and burn off all the grime in your oven at temperatures up to 500°C. As it gets so hot, the oven door usually locks so that all you need to do is sweep up the ash that’s left over at the end.
Energy efficiency	C
The more efficient the product, the less energy it needs and the more you get for your money. ‘A’ rated products are the most efficient and ‘G’ rated products are the least efficient.
Height in cm	72
The distance from the very top of the product to the very bottom.
Depth in cm	58

Width in cm	60

Release date	2004-05-12
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.
Number of cooking zones	2

Also known as: HOTPOINT BU72P, HOTPOINT BU72B, Hotpoint BU72W, BU72

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