We have only had this new Chef gas oven for one week. After being very happy with at least three previous Chef gas ovens over the last 40 years, this is our first stainless steel one and is a huge disappointment. The cooktop surface, front top edge and control knobs get very hot while the oven is on. This indicates inadequate heat insulation around and above the oven and excessive energy being wasted. At a time of global warming awareness, Electrolux should be increasing the energy efficiency of their designs. This product should not even be on the market. We are extremely sorry that we were so loyal to the Chef brand, as we will find it very hard to live with this product.

Bought this at a very reasonable price for a solid Australian made. I replaced a 23 year old chef brand freestanding oven who had no problem (apart from the ignition not working which is quite normal), just for kitchen cosmetic upgrade. Looks good in the kitchen, does the job well, perfect size for my kitchen. So far so good, I must say the oven door and the cooktop knobs get warm when we use it.

A pretty good stove, oven is a good size, easy to clean, shelving is a bit hard to pull out as they stick and grind against the sides of the oven, top burners are good, oven and burners ignite easy and light first time, grill is enclosed in the oven,

We have been using this oven for two years.
Got this after my custom fit poorly made problematic Kleenmaid stopped working. This is a no frill solid Made in Australia oven which never fails me.
The only troublesome bit is that it takes awhile to warm up the oven but the oven heat is uniform and definitely we uniformly heated.
I highly recommend this oven!.

Overall use of the oven is good however when using the oven the whole thing heats up terribly
The door, sides and control knobs, the whole unit heats up and this can't be safe.
Also the timer bell is very faint so I don't use it now and just use my phone alarm.
I called Electrolux and they said to use mittens.
Pathetic.

When the oven is on, the sides of the stove get very very hot. When the grill is used, you have to leave the oven door open, the heat from the grill comes out and makes the control knobs red hot, they are not going to last long from that heat exposure. I didn't realise when I bought it, that it has open ventilation at the back of the hotplates. There is no way to clean this area, and if any thing should spill, will it go down onto the wires?. It might have been one of the cheaper models on offer, but I am very very sorry I bought it.