Our Indesit oven started playing up a few months ago and of course not when we were just cooking for the two of us but when we had people over for lasagne. After two hours it still wasn't hot or cooking and it began to dawn us that we were being led down the path of a costly engineer call out. We knew the problem was the oven thermostat as something similar had occurred a year ago and to have the part replaced cost just shy of £100, at the time my partner was about to be made redundant and was insistent we could survive without the oven if need be, a few weeks later he missed his roast dinner and I was going spare trying to think of creative meals that involved a wok ...  Read the complete review

This Lakeland oven thermometer has been a life saver for me, you think I am exaggerating, well read on. A few months ago my niece came complete with her toddler in tow - now this dear little toddler is at that curious stage. Our video recorder was rendered useless after he kindly posted a collection of DVD's through the slot and as I turned around to get my cup of coffee from the breakfast bar those lovely chubby fingers grabbed the cooker knob and twisted it mercilessly until it could stand it no longer ! Of course I smiled ( as I always do!) and just said that there was no harm done, after all toddlers will be toddlers, won't they ? Now this oven ...  Read the complete review

I decided to buy an oven thermometer after having a few baking disasters in the kitchen. I'm a good cook normally and couldn't figure out why a few things had gone wrong. After much consideration I decided that the only possible explanation was that the oven temperature was out. I mentioned it to my mum on a recent visit, and she very kindly bought me this oven thermometer from Lakeland on her next visit. This is quite a big stainless steel thermometer, it's about 3 inches in diameter, it kind of reminds me of a clock. You can position the thermometer in your oven in two different ways, you can either stand it on a shelf in your oven, or you can hang it from ...  Read the complete review

I like to think I'm more than a bit handy in the cooking/baking department with some of the attributes of the top chef's. The temperment of Gordon Ramsey, the Gary Rhodes like attention to detail of my hair, the figure of Worrall Thompson and the urge to be the Naked Chef in the kitchen with Nigella Lawson and pop a bun or two in her oven. So, when things started going wrong I wasn't a happy chappy. My first inkling things weren't right was when my mother came for dinner, a nice joint of beef, browned, seasoned to perfection then into the oven for the allotted time, it looked like perfection when removed. All I can say is when it came to slicing it, there's ...  Read the complete review