Built-in oven reviews: Reliability
Built-in oven reliability
Thousands of Which? members have told us about the reliability record of their built-in gas and electric ovens. We’ve heard about those minor niggles, such as the timer breaking, as well as major problems that stop you cooking, including the oven simply failing to heat up.
The highest scoring brand has a good reliability score of 91%. But three brands have poor reliability scores.
Brands including AEG / AEG Electrolux, Bosch, Belling, Electrolux, Hotpoint, Indesit, John Lewis, Neff, New World, Siemens and Zanussi / Zanussi-Electrolux are featured in our reliability table.
Neff ovens are a very popular purchase – 22% of respondents to our survey own a Neff, 15% own Bosch and 9% own an AEG/AEG-Electrolux built-in oven.
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To see how well individual built-in ovens from brands including AEG / AEG Electrolux, Baumatic, Bosch, Belling, Electrolux, Hotpoint, Indesit, John Lewis, Miele, Neff, New World, Siemens, Whirlpool and Zanussi/Zanussi-Electrolux perform in our tests, see the Which? built-in ovens review.
| Built-in oven Which? reliability index | ||
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Rating | Score |
| AEG/AEG-Electrolux |  | |
| Belling | | |
| Bosch | | |
| Electrolux | | |
| Hotpoint | | |
| Indesit | | |
| John Lewis | | |
| Neff | | |
| New World | | |
| Siemens | | |
| Zanussi/Zanussi-Electrolux | | |
To see how well built-in ovens from brands including AEG / AEG Electrolux, Baumatic, Bosch, Belling, Electrolux, Hotpoint, Indesit, John Lewis, Miele, Neff, New World, Siemens, Whirlpool and Zanussi /Zanussi-Electrolux perform in our tests, see the Which? Built-in ovens review.
Reliability and Best Buys
Built-in ovens tend to be less reliable than other appliances so the reliability rating is a key part of the decisions we make about which models deserve Best Buy status.
So a built-in oven can qualify as a Best Buy only if the brand has scored at least three out of five stars for reliability, based on our survey of owners, or if the model has a free 5-year warranty.
Common built-in oven problems
- Light 8%
- Door 6%
- Heating 5%
