Very poor oven - avoid!
1/5
This oven looks good but cooks bad. The main oven takes AGES - over 45 mins - to get to a temperature of anywhere near 200 degrees and never reaches its maximum temperature!. At the same time, the oven leaks heat. What happens is the control knobs get too hot to touch, any plates put to 'warm' in the top oven get too hot to touch and the outside fascia gets too hot to touch. It's dangerous, in fact.
The control knobs themselves are really hard to read unless you are about 6 foot tall with excellent eyesight, because the writing on them is on top of and all around the knobs!
I should have done much more research before purchasing because many reviews on other websites selling this item report problems with the oven reaching temperature and leaking heat and the knobs getting too hot to touch!
My first and last Hotpoint purchase. On complaining to AO, they have passed on responsibility to Hotpoint. Hotpoint say they have to send an engineer out, and if no fault is found, will charge me £50!