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Would you love to have a Range Cooker in your kitchen but have always thought that you could never afford? Well now you can! Contrary to popular belief, you can bag yourself a good range cooker for less than an arm and a leg and without breaking the bank or taking out a second mortgage! Here I am going to give you my top 5 budget buy range cookers.

The first on my list is the Flavel Aspen 100cm Dual Fuel Range Cooker – AP10FRSP. The cooker compromises a double electric oven, separate adjustable grill, eight gas burner hob with adjustable flame settings and enamel pan supports, left hand side oven is thermostatically controlled fan oven with interior light, right hand side oven is thermostatically controlled static oven with interior light, easy clean enamel ovens, digital clock and storage compartment.

Flavel Range Cooker

Second on the list is the Indesit 90cm Dual Fuel Range Cooker – KP9F11SKG. The cookers features include a single conventional electric oven with variable grill and interior light, 68 Litre capacity, 5 gas burner hob including a Wok burner on cast iron pan supports, automatic ignition and safety flame supervision device. You also get a LPG convertible hob kit as well if you wish to turn your hob from Gas to LPG.

Indesit Range Cooker

Coming in third is the Baumatic Single cavity 90cm Gas Range Cooker – BC190.2TCSS. The cooker includes a host of features including conventional gas oven with interior light, gas grill, flame failure safety device for oven hob and grill, 5 gas burner hob including wok burner and heavy duty cast iron pan stands, thermostatically controlled grill, double glazed removable door glass for easy cleaning and minute minder.

Baumatic Range Cooker

In a comfortable fourth position is the Electrolux 70cm Dual Fuel Range Cooker – EKM70150X. The Electrolux includes single electric oven, variable grill, 1 large left front gas burner, 1 medium left rear gas burner, automatic ignition of gas burners, Rotitherm roasting and mechanical minute minder.

Electrolux Range Cooker

Bringing up the rear in position 5 is the Leisure 100cm Cuisinemaster Dual Fuel Range Cooker – RCM10FRSP. It’s features include 5 gas burner hob including wok burner and electric hot plate to keep cooked food warm for eating, cast iron pan supports and burner caps, glass lid with auto shut off, separate grill, fully programmable fan oven, separate conventional oven, interior light in both ovens, removable inner door glass for easy cleaning and programmable digital clock.

Leisure Range Cooker

All of these Range Cookers come in at less than £680, and the cheapest is only £529! Now that’s a bargain if you ask me!

If you’re into your cooking then you’ll already know all there is to know about range cookers, right? Or maybe you think you do. But do you know the history of the range cooker? Do you know where that fancy food preparer sat proudly in your kitchen came from? Well you will, after you read this! Try not to get too excited.

Ranger cookers are far more mighty than standard cookers, but unsurprisingly their history is rather more succinct; they’re a development of the standard cooker; a deviation in the cooking timeline if you will. If we put on our archaeologists hat, we can trace the history true range cookers back to 1777, a year after the US’s independence from Great Britain. An enterprising young gent called John Flavel established a foundry specialising in ‘vapour baths’, inspired by the spas of Leamington. He soon realised though that his vapour baths, with a few minor tweaks, would work rather well as stoves; thus the range cooker was born.

Range Cookers

Shortly after, in 1803, the entire operation moved to Leamington, and one of the world’s first factories dedicated to the range cooker was constructed. The expansion enabled Flavel’s son to develop his revolutionary ‘kitchener’, essentially the father of all range cookers. Made from cast iron, the ‘kitchener’ could cook pretty much anything you could throw in it; any which way you wanted to cook it. Soon, range cookers were in the homes of the rich and famous across Europe.

After the end of the First World War, electricity became far more widespread, allowing for further developments in the exciting world of range cookers; namely the inception of the electric range cooker. I did warn you it was exciting. From then on, range cookers have continued to grow and grow (both literally and figuratively) to become what they are today: the perfect choice for the aspiring chef with a bit of cash to splash. But what’s in store for the range cooker in the future? Next time we turn up the heat and find out. Stick a fork in me, I’m done.