Whirlpool AKL307IX Built Under Double Oven - Stainless Steel

Good sensible oven

"Have only just started using. Operating it seems OK. Would be better if both sets of shelf sliders were in bottom oven, as obviously it's far easier to see into the top one. Oven temp seems about right, and fan quite quiet, but previous experience of other fan ovens tells me they all get noisier over time. Good to have lower main oven slightly larger than secondary one. Almost never use a grill and haven't tried it yet. Overall pretty pleased. "

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Great like for like replacement

"Really pleased with the oven! It's a replacement of a Philips Whirlpool and very simple to use. Only confusing part was all the shelves and different tray! "

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Great Oven

"Great product. Looks fantastic, good capacity in the main oven and the gliding rail make life so much easier. "

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Avoid whirlpool

"Had problems with the oven the day I got it, couldn’t have both ovens on at the same time as it got too hot and tripped the electrics. Learned to live with it for a while and now it has probably gone bang! Good luck trying to get anywhere with whirlpool customer services as they are terrible and have been cut off on several occasions and still isn’t resolved. "

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Ok. Kind of does the job but temps aren't accurate.

"We have used the oven for about 2 weeks and have cooked some of our usual foods. The manual says to reduce the temps in the fan oven by 25’C due to being a fan. This is rubbish. We’ve have to use the non-fan oven temps on the packet as a guide to make the timings work. This was proved by cooking some cookies (something we have done a dozen times). In our old Neff oven - 10 mins at 160’C. In this oven - 10 mins @ 180’C or 13 mins at 160’C. Other reviewers have had similar experiences.

Positives - The oven looks good and clean. Fan is quiet.

Feet are useful during install, although a bit of a pain to adjust, but its only once. An adjustment tool would have been useful like you get with a washing machine.

Supplied with 3 trays (1 deep one with an inner rack), 3 steel racks and a grill pan with inner rack.

The lower oven is a more useful size than our previous built under oven. It’s the main reason we bought it to be honest.

Negatives – The seal doesn’t seal on the bottom of both doors.

The mid-layer of glass rattles when you close the doors.

Clock steams up on the inside of the glass during cooking.

The dials are a bit plasticy and stick slightly when pushing in and out, (A tiny bit of WD40 sorted that).

The manual says to remove the catalytic panels to re-position the telescopic runners, this is absolute rubbish and pointless. The guides/rails can be unclipped by pushing backwards easing them free at the front. Alternatively the guides can be left in place and the telescopic runners can be twisted/rotated from the bottom upwards to disengage them from the guides.

You can’t use the 2nd set of telescopic runners in the top oven with the tray. The tray is too thick to fit in the guide with the runners. I don’t know why the oven was supplied with telescopic runners in the top oven, the assembly doesn’t work.

The manual says there should be is a slightly longer rack for the top oven @ 337mm long. This wasn’t supplied. I just got 3 standard length racks @ 301mm long.

To be honest it is sort of what I was expecting. It isn’t a very expensive oven and the quality matches the price.

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New double oven.

"Fab oven .. it's so quiet and gets upto temp quickly.

My last oven was on it's last legs.

I can't wait to see my energy bills drop.

Ordered on Sunday morning, here for lunchtime Monday. Great service and the guys brought it into the kitchen. 5 stars."

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