An oven dilemma

Plan D:

Get a Remoska. 

with yor headI'm pretty sure that when manufacturers make their products they don't make one part more robust than another part. Bulb today, element next month, fan mid summer , timer  two weeks later  .. and so on. Rather than spending half your life with your head inside  the oven ... get a NEFF.

However, ......I need to make life easier for OH.

Buy the oven you want, and do all the cooking!

Mrs W hasn't cooked a meal in our house for 25 years. (I kid you not)

I took over the reigns when we both worked and I was home first, it has continued into retirement.

There is quite simply no equal to Miele when it comes to reliability & long life.  Yes, they are expensive but long outlast everything else.  We have an all Miele Kitchen.  The oven is 25 years old & replaced a Phillips that lasted 7 years.  The washing machine & diswasher are both 14 years old and the Vacuum about 25 years.  When you consider that in many cases other makes would have lasted less than half the Miele life they are not so expensive after all.

TF

If you decide to replace your oven, I hope you don't encounter the problem we have.

We decided to replace ours but, the space in my fitted kitchen was measured to fit an oven bought a few years ago and we now find that the majority of cookers are now several centimetres wider.  I can't replace my cooker without destroying my perfectly good kitchen.  

Same here Jill.  In fact when we had our kitchen fitted at the time, we had the gap made so that we could go that extra few millimeters, so hoping that when it comes to a new oven, we can get one that fits

There is quite simply no equal to Miele when it comes to reliability & long life.  Yes, they are expensive but long outlast everything else.  We have an all Miele Kitchen.  The oven is 25 years old & replaced a Phillips that lasted 7 years.  The washing machine & diswasher are both 14 years old and the Vacuum about 25 years.  When you consider that in many cases other makes would have lasted less than half the Miele life they are not so expensive after all.

TF

That's a bit of a sweeping statement. I bet our Aga will outlive any Miele.

Maybe, but Aga prices are in another league.

Two words of warning if you choose to replace your oven - your wife may hate the slide away door.  My sister does, because it stops her using it as a temporary shelf when lifting out very hot food to see if it's cooked.

Another - the highest temperature on more modern ovens is much lower than it used to be (Health and Safety issues) and if your wife is used to an oven which will cook at high temperatures she may despair of the lower temperatures available on some modern ovens.  Check your Miele highest temperature and make sure you get a replacement which matches it if you can (though it may take some finding).

That's interesting Val.  OH and DD have been to play with the Neff door and observed that, at least on the one in the showroom, the door could be left pulled out sufficiently tto place hot things on.  However, this is not something that she normally does with the present oven door as we have suitable "landing places" for hot things very close.

Will check out the temperature range, I think OH mostly uses 160-200 celsius.

Have been kept busy today as DD arrived unexpectedly to discuss "wedding things", so we have not yet managed to check if the parts we have found will fit the Miele.

There is quite simply no equal to Miele when it comes to reliability & long life.  Yes, they are expensive but long outlast everything else.  We have an all Miele Kitchen.  The oven is 25 years old & replaced a Phillips that lasted 7 years.  The washing machine & diswasher are both 14 years old and the Vacuum about 25 years.  When you consider that in many cases other makes would have lasted less than half the Miele life they are not so expensive after all.

TF

I do agree TF,  Miele are very good, we have 2 of their  vacuum cleaners, the oldest is 27 years old.

If we bought a new Miele, it would outlast us!

Good point, I must remember to include mine in my will.