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Sharing our cooker expertise

We’ve tested dozens of cookers in the Which? lab to discover which perform the best, and over the years we’ve developed an unrivalled understanding of what each brand tends to do well and not so well.

In this guide, our experts share what they’ve learnt about each of the biggest cooker brands - including Hotpoint, Smeg, AEG-Electrolux - and reveal the strengths and weaknesses of each, to help you decide which might best suit you.

Bear in mind that this guide only offers brand overviews, so for full reviews of each of the cookers we’ve tested, make sure you check out our individual cooker reviews.

Best cooker brands

In this guide, you can find out:

• how many cookers Which? has tested for each brand
• how well each brand generally scores on a range of criteria
• how much cookers from each brand tend to cost.

And subscribers can also find out:

• the average score each cooker brand gets in Which? tests
• how many models of each brand have been awarded Best Buy or Don’t Buy status
• the pros and cons of each cooker brand.

Click on the brand links in the left-hand panel to find out all this information for each of the leading cooker brands.

How Which? tests cookers

In the Which? lab we test cookers on a wide range of criteria including oven performance, hob performance, grilling performance, ease of use and ease of cleaning. We award each model one to five stars for each of these criteria, and award the best performing models Best Buy status.

Check out our cooker reviews for more details on how we test, to see the test results for each individual cooker we’ve tested, and to find out which are Best Buys.