Westinghouse WFE542SC

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 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