Freestanding cooker reviews: Reliability
Every year we survey thousands of Which? members about any problems they've had with their home appliances to find out which brands are the most reliable. Here we reveal our results by showing you the most reliable freestanding cooker brands that should give you unrivalled service.
Freestanding cookers reliability
Which? members have told us about the reliability record of their gas and electric freestanding cookers. We’ve heard about those minor niggles, such as a faulty timer, as well as major problems that will stop you cooking, including the oven failing to heat up.
The highest scoring brand has a reliability score of 86% - the table below shows all of the reliability scores. Brands including Beko, Belling, Cannon, Electrolux, Hotpoint, Indesit and Zanussi / Zanussi-Electrolux are featured.
Cannon cookers are a very popular purchase – 15% of respondents to our survey own a Cannon cooker and 10% own a Belling.
Only logged-in Which? members can view full scores in our freestanding cookers reliability table below. If you're not already a member, you can sign up to try out full access for one month, for just £1.
| Freestanding cooker Which? reliability index | ||
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Rating | Score |
| Beko |  | |
| Belling | | |
| Cannon | | |
| Electrolux | | |
| Hotpoint | | |
| Indesit | | |
| Zanussi/Zanussi-Electrolux | | |
Reliability and Best Buys
Freestanding cookers 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 freestanding cooker 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 five-year warranty
Common freestanding cooker problems
- Heating 8%
- Ignition 7%
- Door 7%
To see how well freestanding cookers from brands including AEG/AEG-Electrolux, Baumatic, Beko, Belling, Bosch, Cannon, Electrolux, Flavel, Hotpoint, Indesit, Leisure, New World, Smeg, Stoves, Swan and Zanussi/Zanussi-Electrolux perform in our tests, see the Which? freestanding cookers review.
