Cooking Appliances (Official Thread???)

Marvt74 said:
How well do the controls work as they look fairly basic.
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I've absolutely no complaints, they work very well. Push the right control in to go into the menu then flip it left or right to navigate up and down the list. Press to select. Job done. The left control is used for going up a level in the menus, stopping a function (their terminology) or turning the light on or off.

Once a function is running alter the temperature with the right control. Push the control to go to timer (or minute minder as it's called) or push again for a timer that'll turn the oven off when the count down reaches zero.

I can't fault our ovens, the heat is very even and I'm staggered at how long they stay hot for after they've been turned off.
 
pet gripes for ovens
  • not as bad as ventilators but - the noise from oven fans blowing air across the stay cool doors is increasingly polluting, never used to have these, why can't they just put better insulation in the doors, or given an off button if you don't have child safety worries - being able to talk normally in the kitchen would be nice.
  • would like higher temp option 300c for pizzas - but maybe combined with a fan it would frazzle the contents (unlike a non-fan genuine pizza oven)
  • Crummy design of Boschs with their child locks too, @my folks often inadvertently engage this and the oven fails to go on, or it turns off.
  • some kind of zoning, or hot air wall to allow opening door when cooking yorkshires would be the grail.
 
This is where the Samsung ovens I mentioned are technically better for functionality. They operate a “dual cook” mode which splits the door in half and lets you have 2 separate zones.

Not sure how it works in practice but it’s a great idea.
 
jpaul said:
pet gripes for ovens
  • not as bad as ventilators but - the noise from oven fans blowing air across the stay cool doors is increasingly polluting, never used to have these, why can't they just put better insulation in the doors, or given an off button if you don't have child safety worries - being able to talk normally in the kitchen would be nice.
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Yep! Thankfuly my Smeg ovens have quadruple glazed doors so even when they're on a pyro cycle the outer glass is cool the to touch and the fans are at a very sensible level.
 
Anyone else have a Beko American Fridge Freezer? I've plumbed the water in and the output from the tap is a trickle. Completely opposite to the Samsung one we have at work which comes out at a reasonable speed.

One thing i noticed is that i mounted the filter just above the skirting, but the work one has it at chest height. Would this make a difference?
 
Marvt74 said:
Anyone else have a Beko American Fridge Freezer? I've plumbed the water in and the output from the tap is a trickle. Completely opposite to the Samsung one we have at work which comes out at a reasonable speed.

One thing i noticed is that i mounted the filter just above the skirting, but the work one has it at chest height. Would this make a difference?
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Is there an air gap in the filter (ie break from mains pressure?) I assume not as otherwise it would be going uphill? (unless it's fairly large and there's a pump?)

The engineer in me suggests it wouldn't make a difference otherwise, but I'm no expert.
 
Don't think so, it's just one of those cylindrical filters that's fitted in line with the pipe. The filter definitely must kill flow as it's a decent level on the input side.

I think my theory (i'm an accountant not an engineer!) was that since the flow was better before the filter. If i raised the filter up then that would maybe get mavity to help increase the flow after the filter.

Although the inlet on the actual fridge is at the bottom so internally it needs to get from ground level up through the internal fridge piping anyway before being dispensed.

One think i noticed was that the manual states it requires water pressure to be between 1 and 8 bar. Is there a cheap device i can pick up to measure water pressure?
 
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