Westinghouse WLE543WC
Good Points
- Excellent cooktop.
- Excellent for making scones.
- Excellent for melting chocolate.
- Excellent for meringues.
- Excellent for rice.
- Excellent for stir-frying.
- Excellent for white sauce.
- Very good for pizza.
- Very good for roasting chicken.
- Very good oven performance.
- Cooktop controls – Controls positioned at the back above the cooktop and makes them inaccessible to children.
- Cooktop controls – Large clear written labelling with low, med, high grading.
- Cooktop controls – Large controls with cross bar.
- Grill – Separate grill.
- Oven clean – Moulded shelf supports are easy to clean and wipe over
Bad Points
- Cooktop – No 'on' indication light when cooktop is in use.
- Cooktop – OK layout of hotplates (simmer zones at the front).
- Cooktop – Poor choice of cooking zones 3 small one medium.
- Cooktop – Saucepan / pan larger than 21cm may not be efficient.
- Cooktop clean – Spills can bake on making cleaning difficult.
- Cooktop controls – Controls positioned on the back panel above the cooktop. Need to lean across hotplates to access.
- Grill – Grill tray slides into shelf support and has a stopper that doesn't prevent the tray from being pulled out accidentally.
- Grill – Grill tray tilts more than 19° when pulled out and sits on open oven door. Food can slide off.
- Grill – Shelf supports are loosely fitted, which make it much easier for the grill tray to be pulled right out.
- No telescopic runners.
- Oven clean – Gap between door and glass can trap residue and condensation.
- Oven clean – Metal shield above and in front of grill element in separate grill compartment cannot be removed making cleaning very difficult.
- Oven controls – Dial control for temperature may not be accurate.
- Oven controls – Labelling for controls may fade over time.
- Oven controls – May need to refer to the manual initially to set the timers / clock.
- Relatively small baking volume
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