Best Westinghouse Ovens

Am well satisfied with this purchase – Had to replace 1 hotplate so far and now need another one replaced, plus ovenlight, also timer doesn't work (but I think that was my fault as I was a… Read more

bit rough with it. Overall I am very satisfied with the quality and performance over the eight years of ownership. Good value!

Oven door EXPLODED – Oven door EXPLODED.... came home from work glass everywhere. Dogs walk through the glass. Vet trip to get glass out. Imagine if it EXPLODED while… Read more

cooking hot glass??? Or if my kids where standing in front of it ....I'm so disappointed with oven. I love cooking and it has been a fantastic oven til now.....

I have to say tho the support team from westinghouse have been amazing and very understanding. I could not find a replacement glass and they have sent one out. That is customer service. You don't see that anymore. Thank you for your quick service and support. I will be dealing with westinghouse again. Truely outstanding. Thanks

Daily saviour – It's been a great help with these. I recommend this product this will make your baking so easy. Show details

Delighted with it – I'm absolutely delighted with this oven. I needed to replace a similar Westinghouse which broke down after being in the kitchen for almost 30 years.… Read more

This new one heats up very quickly compared to the old one. The heat is even and I love the bright interior light and big window enabling me to see what's going on inside. I haven't used the griller bit much but I certainly like the fact that I can heat up only one side if I'm doing small things ... simple power-saving idea! I'm sure the novelty will wear off but I'm really enjoying cooking fancy things requiring even heat that my old oven simply couldn't have coped with. I feel like I'm now set for another 30 years. No hesitations in recommending this oven.

We have found this Built in wall oven to be very good. We have only had it 6 months. The oven is quiet, heats up quickly, the controls, timer, temp… Read more

control are very easy to operate It has two slide out trays, and one roasting, and one baking tray. Has Airfry option, Fan forced, Bake, Grill, Fan Grill. Light comes on when you open the door which is handy. Side racks and wire trays are easy to remove for cleaning Good loud beeper alarm when baking is cooked

I bought this oven 3 years ago and rented the property out I have recently moved in and have come to realise this oven is rubbish. It takes 20… Read more

minutes longer to cook anything in the oven and I have to boost the temperature up an extra 30 degrees to get a result like 210 Celsius to cook something that should cook easily at 180. I came from a house with an old stand alone gas oven with a fan and it is 30 years old and 10 times more affective at cooking. This Westinghouse oven is garbage. Do not buy Westinghouse ovens they seem to be very faulty.

Best decision choosing this oven – Firstly I love the size, I love the look and it is really easy to use. It beeps once it has reached the pre set temperature and indicates when it is cooling down. It has the pyrolytic cleaning and air fryer.

Nice oven – I read a few reviews which I think were a little unfair, if the reviewers had read the product manual they would have not had those problems. One… Read more

reviewer complained about not being able to clean between the glass in the oven door, but the glass panel slides out very easily so its simple to clean. Another said the grill didn't cook well, but the manual says to preheat the grill for 15 minutes, and when that was done it did a nice job with a toasted cheese sandwhich.

I do agree with the reviewer who complained about the vents at the rear trapping food, I would like a lightweight metal screen supplied to temporarily place over the vents to protect while stove-top cooking. Or a way to remove the top would have been better design. I have solved the problem for now with a strip of aluminum foil doubled over and placed lightly over that area. It lives inside the oven until needed, as the vents need to be clear when the grill is being used.

Ease of use and Functional – One week in with family in from interstate. Very old but reliable Simpson 2001 Free Standing Stove finally became too problematic to use. A rush to… Read more

get something installed. As usual off to The GoodGuys found exactly what I wanted. Westinghouse Free Standing Stove WLE522WC. Paid for next day delivery, installation and removal of old unit. Store organised everything. Perfectly suited my needs, had everything I needed. My daughter took over and cooked every night for the week with me over her shoulder as assistant. Top Controls away from grand kids, simple timer seperate grill door, coil top elements. Cooked on top, used grill (with door open) and oven for roasts or warming all at the same time. One large drip tray below all 4 heating elements is practical as is easy clean top with removable chrome rings. Not a solid build but everything needed to get dinner happening. A local build, good quality and a great buy at a low price.

The induction cooktop completely stopped working in less than a week from installation, potentially due to a problem with a sensor (error code E7). Show details

I haven't used yet, but disappointed that i didn't know before I purchased and installed that the oven temperature or mode does not display on the… Read more

digital screen so there is no way of knowing if the oven has reached desired temperature (without buying oven thermometer). Display is for clock/time and remains on that whether oven is on/off. Need to double check that knob is off. Would be easier if on display.

Worked ok when it worked. Had it serviced once after coupled of years, and now it has broken down just after 5 years. The service man said the door… Read more

latch and thermometer are broken and it isn't worth replacing. Very poor that an appliance that should last 10 to 15 years breaks just after 5 years. I won't be buying Westinghouse again.

Note: To their credit they did contact me and offer to look at it and work through the issue. However i couldn't wait and oredered another brand.

Poorly designed – I purchased this less than a year ago from Appliances Online. Pros - it looks great, especially for a smaller stove. The oven is absolutely… Read more

brilliant and cooks everything really well. The hotplate is fine, except the largest one is at the front, and not the back.

Cons - the controls are at waist level and are very easy to move. If you accidentally brush past them it will turn on the hotplate - the numbers are also very hard to see and you have to bend right down to see the temperatures etc. I wear glasses so this isn't great. Also, the venting gap, instead of being behind the control bar as it usually is, is at the back behind the ceramic hotplates so you effectively have a large gap which water or oil potentially could fall through. Nowhere in the specs does it tell you how to deal with this so I purchased silicone gap covers (NOTE * DON'T USE THE GAP COVERS WHEN THE GRILL OR OVEN ARE ON).

The grill is much smaller than the usual and it's hard to use.

Also our oven light stopped working yesterday - the last oven we had, the bulb lasted 5 years but ok, that's not the worst thing, as annoying as it is. We've had the most extraordinary difficulty finding out what light bulb to buy, which of course isn't the type you can purchase from Woolies, oh no, it's a special bulb you have to buy online. That isn't the worst thing though - there is nowhere in the specs or online that tells you what bulb to buy, we needed to turn off the oven and remove the old light which still doesn't display which wattage you need so we're purchasing a 25 watt to be on the safe side. It's been an unnecessarily convoluted experience just to buy an oven light. Would it have been so hard to show in the specs?

By the way, this light bulb is really hard to find - it's only at a couple of places, ebay being one of them. After 2 hours of looking and attempting to order it, we still haven't been successful.

The whole oven has been designed badly and if I had little kids, I wouldn't buy it. The oven light bulb, for anyone who needs it, is as follows;

G9 Halogen

3 grand for a downgrade in oven. Previous Westinghouse oven had issues with maintaining temp, 5-10c either side of the set temp. This new 3 grand… Read more

door stopper is even worse by nearly 40c out but only colder compared to set temp... This was after an hour of warming up, got to its alleged temperature within 20-25 minutes but after that it didn't budge.

Wtaf Westinghouse.

Shocking oven, must have got a dud – Our oven door lock became faulty, and the oven would not turn on. This and the door handle cracked. Called Electrolux (who own Westinghouse), they… Read more

sent out serviceman. A new door plastic part and door lock ordered and replaced (promptly). Very next day oven would not turn on and door lock again faulty. Serviceman showed up again next day to inspect and noted broken, had no idea where to go from here, so he left without knowing what was happening. Called him a day later, stated new lock and now power board ordered to be replaced. Waited 2 weeks for that, Serviceman arrived with parts and fixed both - now works. However, after removing the gas stove assembly the top section is screwed on slanted with a notable gap on the right side compared to the left (looks like total trash). Fast forward to a month later -- door handle has cracked below the same area, shortly after this happened the same top handle plastic broken again. Wife also noted that the grill function is not even working after turning that on. What else could possibly go wrong with this unit? Will be uploading pictures! Westinghouse - I will be calling you in the next few days! Definitely want a refund and different model thanks!

This oven has a lot of annoyances in operation. Many of those things are minor, but frustrating nonetheless. Mostly just because some programmer… Read more

decided to be clever. Or not clever enough, in the right areas.

For example, the installation instructions give you the size of the hole, but not the location of the front facia relative to the hole. Which might mean that some people have a clash with the cupboards. it's 10-15mm higher than the hole, if you need to know.

or, just the fact it assumes a completely new temperature if you change cooking modes.

Or the fact you lose the last significant figure on the timer when you hit "ok". Not a problem for seconds, but when it's more than 10 minutes, you lose a whole minute and it's annoying.

There are two more significant problems, however.

The moderate problem is you have to grill with the door closed. This is a problem becomes evident under two circumstances. Firstly, if you want to grill something in a pan. If the handle is too long or can't survive under the griller, you simply can't grill it. The second circumstance if if you are baking something and want to brown it. It will only grill until it reaches temperature (240) and then it will turn off. If you are baking at say 200 it only gives you a minute or two of grilling and that's it.

This problem is exasperated by the biggest problem, however. It's the fact nothing browns in this oven.

At first I thought this was because the temperature settings were wrong (as other reviewers have). But I checked with my own thermocouples, and they are close enough.

What I came to realise is it's because the oven is insulated too well. Which sound great, until you realise it means the elements turn on much less. So nothing really browns. It just gets up to temperature and then sits there with no radiant heat that's needed for browning.

The solution is to cook everything at much higher temperatures than you normally would. 180 fan forced, on a regular oven, equals about 210 on air fryer, in this oven.

This would be fine, but it presents several problems. Firstly, the window to use the griller, for browning, is now even narrower. Secondly, the oven is not capable of cooking like a true 250 degree oven. Cooks more like 210 degrees when set at 250. And that not great for things like pizza. And the pizza setting is one of the reasons I picked this oven.

And lastly, it's likely the oven will burn out sooner, because it's being operated at higher temperatures all the time.

I would not recommend this oven to anyone.

After a lot of investigating we purchased the Westinghouse model WVE6516SD. I did the installation, my electrician connected and issued a compliance… Read more

certificate for warranty requirements. Albeit the height and level adjustments were a bit finicky I achieved a perfect fit into the cabinet using spacers from Bunnings. The Westinghouse instructions were exceptionally good and overall, installation was easy. The two Westinghouse mounting screws are 20mm long and way too short for chipboard cabinets, with added stress due opening and closing the oven door. Westinghouse, this is penny pinching - the length of these screws should be 30mm.

The oven is exceptionally well insulated and there is no notable rise in room temperature with the oven on. No odd odours or any issues. Build quality is also good - in fact, better than many premium opposition brands.

Unfortunately, there is one huge downside. This oven does not display the current temperature at all. It operates totally blind. Unlike many ovens, this one is all about trust, and little else. We made the fatal mistake by assuming that this basic feature would be standard. We now have to rely on the accuracy of the oven thermostat, and an almost unnoticeable tiny green light that goes off when the set temperature is reached. Sometimes, after baking one may want to put the food back into the oven either to cook more or to reheat. Not knowing what the temperature is, the oven may either be too hot or too cold. So one would have to start all over by resetting the required temperature and wait for the green light to go out. It's the most ridiculous and stupid scenario. Also, one has to stand far back to see the green indicator light. Our perception went from disappointed, to flabbergasted and then disgusted.

Called Westinghouse customer care. Their response was that the "missing" feature was only on their premium models with all the bells and whistles. Well we looked at those and were put off as most of these added "premium " options were nothing but slick marketing. Gimmicky features like a self-cleaning ovens and more. And no difference as far as build quality goes. We have learnt from experience that more often than not, more means less and more for maintenance and replacement costs.

Westinghouse service was really good. Initially, the assistant listened intently and was thorough throughout the conversation, taking notes and a promise of a callback. They did call back and again, the assistant was exceptionally pleasant to deal with. She concurred with my sentiments but couldn't offer any recourse but an apology. Even after I had pointed out that had we known, we would never have purchased this oven. In my opinion, a temperature indicator gauge should be a standard feature, on all ovens - full stop.

Ratings. For customer service: 5 Star. For build quality, reliability and installation instructions: 5 Stars minus 3 Stars for the inadequate fixing screws and the missing temperature indicator gauge.