Freestanding cookers: Compare features & prices AEG 49332I-MN review http://www.which.co.uk/home-and-garden/kitchen/reviews/freestanding-cookers/aeg-49332i-mn/review/

We replaced our first 49332I-MN however are about to get rid of this one as well.The induction hob is great. Quick, fairly easy to get used to and very responsive.The oven temperature accuracy is awful, despite the 'Which' review stating 'very accurate'. Why do I say this? Well having tried to cook 3 roast dinners using conventional and fan modes, on recommended pre-heated ovens, all food was undercooked. (The only way we ate at all those days was by maxing' the temperature and taking a look every so often).Worried that I had been cooking at the wrong temperatures all these years on my old cooker, I bought a stand-alone oven temperature gauge to see the difference between the oven indicated temperature and the stand-alone gauge (and yes, I appreciate that the accuracy of the separate gauge may be wanting as well). However a difference of 40deg C between oven indicated and the separate indicator (with the oven being cooler) did not bode well. As a confirmatory common sense check, I cooked a small room temperature chicken in the main oven @ 190deg C for 80 min (the advertised cooking time on the bird). After 45 min I had a look and could just about pick up the bird in bare hands. Again we only had something on the table that night by maxing the temperature.Deeply disappointed with AEG. Maybe 'Which' testers had an accurate sample, but at £1000 per cooker, I expected a lot better....

Controls are easy, it even took my 80 year old mother only a few minutes to understand ( alright she is also comfortable using an Ipad), fast and easy to clean hob, spacious ovens which a wide range of heating options. I like it and agree with the rating given by Which.

We agree with everything that Which says about this model (although we haven't noticed the hob zones heating unevenly as claimed in their report). But there are a few weaknesses that we feel Which could have highlighted.Firstly, each hob zone has a dedicated group of touch controls: up and down chevrons to increase and decrease power, and another control labelled "Power" which users new to the cooker will naturally assume switches on that zone. What it actually does, with one quick touch and with no confirmation required, is turn that zone on at the 3.2kW boost input level. We feel that this touch control should therefore actually be labelled "Boost" and possibly only activateable in conjunction with the chevrons, as the power level is VERY high (To be honest, we have yet to find a need for it; setting 9 using the chevrons - 2.3kW - is extremely fast anyway).But our chief criticism is of the oven controls and displays. Firstly, a minor niggle -- here up and down chevron touch controls are used not to adjust power levels (as for the the hob), but to step the ovens through their various operating modes ie nothing to do with increasing or decreasing anything! So a confusing inconsistency there. (How about symbols, Electrolux?)Far worse than that is the fact that because only one oven's temperature is displayed at a time, the user simply doesn't know what state the "other" oven is in. The only indication of power to the oven not being currently displayed is the modest lamp in the oven itself, which is not visible when looking down on the control panel. As we found in the early days, it is all too easy to inadvertently switch on the top oven at a default setting of 200 degC, and not know it. (This is achieved by touching the down chevron, which is immediately adjacent to the "oven select" touch zone). There really need to be TWO temperature bar-graphs, one above the other for top and bottom cavities. Or, if space cannot be found for this, at the very least a flashing pinpoint LED to indicate when the "other" oven is active.Having had the above moan about the display and controls shortcomings (which of course you cannot find out about in a showroom since cookers are seldom connected to the supply, and which is particularly applicable to equipment with all-electronic control), we have to close by saying that the performance of both hob and ovens is superb. The speed and CONTROLLABILITY of the hob leaves our previous ceramic type in the shade, and the individual cook timers for the four zones are proving very useful. Both ovens give excellent results with apparently very accurate temperatures maintained. Also the kitchen now stays cooler thanks to the efficiency of the induction hob, and the well insulated ovens.And, although by no means cheap, it does come with 5-years parts and labour warranty, which suggests Electrolux have confidence in the electronics!