[~strawberry~]

Miele all the way. I put a Miele oven in when we did the kitchen in our last house, then when we moved here I couldn't afford to completely redo the kitchen so we just replaced the oven. If you look at Miele, keep in mind that the internal cavity size does vary between some models, so it's worth checking.

[niggles]

We just decided on ours this weekend and we went with a Bosch. Started with the dishwasher, which everyone I know raves about and thought we may as well keep going from there and check out the basic oven and cooktop too. Very happy with the price. It would seem it's a good market for bargaining in. I got them all a good deal cheaper than even the online prices. And Bosch seem to offer an excellent warranty service including free call outs and replacement when parts are unavailable.

[KristyMum-]

we have a Miele. I drooled over it (well, not literally!) for about 10yrs before all things fell into place and we did our kitchen reno. I had to kick myself a few times I was buying it but it's been well worth it.

When you're buying check the guarantee of parts availability. Some only guarantee parts for a relatively short time, which means a repair out of warranty where no parts are available, could mean needing to buy a complete new oven iykwim.
The front is cool to touch and it's very well insulated.

Also how well insulated it is, how durable the dials are and what features you want or need etc (we didn't get the timer, the pyrolitic clean etc which doesn't bother me) and how easy it is to take bits and pieces out or off, to get access to the interior to wipe out.

Agree that Miele ovens are good but if I was buying one I wouldn't buy a 60cm one - maybe a 90cm one instead. Their oven space is so tiny the 60cm one will barely fit a muffin tray.

I can get a roast and the extra deep 'cookie' trays and the large muffin trays in mine and it's not the 90cm (that would have been awesome but I couldn't lol)

What I loved about it was that I never had to turn anything to cook it evenly lol (only ever had old terrible ovens that you had to rotate things so they didn't burn at the back and raw at the front).

This post has been edited by KristyMum-: 24/04/2012, 02:07 AM