Range Cooker Reviews

This EKM90460X 90cm Range Cooker is yet another perfect example of Electrolux’s innovative designing. Not to be left far behind, the small families too now can enjoy the joys of different cooking all in a single unit. This appliance is not massive in size but is as effective as the large units. It comes with catalytic liners for easy cleaning and cool touch doors to name a few user friendly features. A closer look into the cooker will throw light upon its finer details.

The Basics:

Electrolux EKM90460X 90cm Dual Fuel Range Cooker comes in fully stainless steel exterior. This helps greatly in keeping the appliance looking as good as new for a very long time. This stainless steel exterior helps in simple and easy maintenance. It shares a dimension of 920 millimetres in height, 900 in width and 600 in depth. This makes the unit fit snugly into the 60 centimetres slot easily. Furthermore, it is sturdy and strong as it weighs about 113 kilograms. The range cooker is a dual fuel unit.

The Gas Hob:

The hotplate consists of 5 burners. They are high powered crown burners that are effective and quick to heat. The simmer burner is a single unit that enables slow warming of the dishes, the 2 semi-rapid and 1 rapid burner is ideal for the main cooking and deep frying. The single cook burner is multi-functional. Though there is no wok burner, the cast iron pan supports can securely hold a wok and other utensils too. The ignition is automatic making it all the more straightforward for use. The appliance comes with gas safety thermocouples that immediately switch off the gas connection in the absence of flame. This prevents accidental fires due to negligence making it all the safer.

The Cavities:

Both the cavities of the Electrolux EKM90460X Stainless Steel Range Cooker consists of oven. The oven on the left is slightly larger than the right side one and is ideal for use for large quantities of food. The controls are fully automatic. With the help of the timer, the user can be sure of perfectly cooked food without being physically present always. The operations are easy to handle as the controls are rotary in nature. There are catalytic liners that help absorb the grime and oil at very high temperatures making it easy on cleaning. Both the ovens have internal lights that help in easy viewing. Furthermore, the doors do come with window that enable one to see the cooking process in progress. These doors have 2 panes of glass that enable them to be cool to touch even while functioning. This helps the user to open the doors without much hassle and hurt.

• The range offers much versatility with the presence of double oven.
• There is a fanned oven and a multi-functional one too.
• The fanned oven helps reduce the cooking time as they heat up much faster. The heat is spread uniformly around the oven creating perfect dishes that are homogeneously cooked.
• The multi-functional oven acts both as a conventional one and a fanned oven.
• The conventional oven gives the benefit of top and base heat making it intensely hot. This is ideal for baking cakes, cookies and bread.
• This oven can perform 10 cooking functions.
• There is pizza setting that ensures perfect pizzas in a jiffy.
• One can make use of the top and bottom heating element separately for uses like browning dishes like lasagne and warming plates.
• The grill too comes handy for melting cheese to a golden brown or for defrosting food items.

The Electrolux range cooker does come with a one year guarantee of on parts and labour. Overall, the stove is endowed with good features that are effective. Except for the energy efficiency which has much to be improved as it has been rated as ‘B’ only in both the ovens.

Electrolux EKM90460X Stainless Steel Range Cooker – Specification Table

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