Westinghouse WHC644BA / WHC744BA / WHC944BA / WHC934BA

If you plan to cook. DO NOT BUY THIS STOVE. This is by far the most useless stove I have ever had the misfortune to use. I had to buy a ceramic cook top stove as the area the stove was to be installed was too small for an induction. What a mistake. Any cooking in pots or pans takes forever. The ring keeps turning off, the radiant heat is a… Read more

very small area even on the drawn out circle the inner circle Is only adequate for the smallest pot. The heat ring turns off with any movement including stirring a pot or a pot boiling. It is impossible to clean. The stove is okay but the cook top is just for decoration

Pure danger. Stay away – I can't understate how horrifically badly designed this stove top is - it is genuinely a massive fire hazard and is so poorly designed I question what westinghouse were thinking selling it. The slightest hint of something touching the buttons can set any of the four hobs to full power. Whether it's water, paper, a pan or almost any material the… Read more

buttons are so stupidly sensitive it turns on all the time.

When you using multiple hobs and you switch one off you can be almost guaranteed that it will switch back on at full power when you walk away from it.

The 'lock' button barely works and often fails leading to the hob setting things on fire.

This has happened from day one of it being installed.

Numerous times we have had items be set on fire, and numerous pans ruined.

Has there ever been a recall on this model as I can't be the only one experiencing this?

I'm now at a point where I'm going to have to buy a new hob as it is so stupidly dangerous.

Terrible & dangerous – This stove is terrible and dangerous plus bad service. This appliance has a mind of its own. It turns on uncommanded and has caused near misses by turning on hot plates when not at home resulting in us needing to isolate the appliance. Turns off independently and will refuse to start again. Had a technician come out, charge me a monster amount for 15min and then completely failure to complete the job. Still not resulted after 8 weeks. Disaster.

Don't bother purchasing – A cooktop that is totally rubbish turns itself off if you place anything on the cooktop if you wipe a spill it turns itself off . Quite easy to ruin a meal if you dont realise it has turned off. Just way too sensitive Show details

I wish I'd read these reviews before buying the Westinghouse WHC644BA. My experience is also bad – I understand that any electrical cooktop must conform to safety standards. But the Westinghouse WHC644BA is far too sensitive, too prone to shutting down. Spills require that you pause the cooktop before wiping it down. If you forget to pause and just wipe, the cooktop shuts itself off. If you wipe the control panel, even slightly, while paused… Read more

the cooktop shuts down. If you rest a utensil anywhere on the cooktop it shuts down. So I hear you say, just learn how to avoid doing these things. But the list of things you can do 'wrong' is long and I'm still working out what to avoid. What this cooktop truly needs is a RESTART process. Something to tell the WHC644BA that "okay I got it wrong but I'm an adult and I just want to cook my meal, right now". Sadly, there is NO way to restart the cooktop. You must wait 5 minutes until the Westinghouse WHC644BA resets itself. And then try to save your meal. Not good enough. Westinghouse I know you are smarter than this cooktop suggests. Last complaint... the ceramic cooktop itself is very easily marked. My WHC644BA looks old after less than a year of use. My last ceramic cooktop (not a Westinghouse) looked good after 5 years of use. Other than that this cooktop does a good job, while its working.

Useless as a cooking appliance – Purchased jan 2019. Turns off constantly, a pot being placed over a part of the panel, water from steam near the panel, a wooden spoon on edge of panel. All these things turn it off. Which is absurb given the panel is bottom right hand side. Then if you wipe off the steam from cooking which has turned the panel off it takes ages for the sensor to… Read more

reactivate so you can turn it back on (water has to dry). So things are half cooked and once you realise the panel has turned the cooktop off its a ruined steak before you get heat back on. Would never buy again, absolute dissapointment. We got 3 matching westinghouse appliances and very dissapointed by 2 out of the 3.

If it works it's perfect. It doesn't work! – Moved into a house with this model hob. Worked ok at first, then it just turned off after about 10 minutes and wouldnt turn back on, and just kept displaying an H. Waited about 20 minutes, then it finally turned back on again and worked properly. Next day had the same thing, but after it turned off it just kept beeping 5 times, looked in the manual and it said if this happens the on/off switched is covered. Guess what, it wasn't!  Show details

Looks nice but inconsistent heating – Have been using this stove for the last 6 months. It looks nice in our new kitchen, easy to keep clean. Spacing between hob elements is good, not too close together. However, even though the temperature is digitally controlled, the inconsistent heating makes things difficult. One day I'll use a particular level of heating for a dish and it's fine,… Read more

the next time I'll use the same heating level for the same type of food and it burns or is way to intense for what is being cooked. This happens on all elements. Overall it's okay but the constant adjusting of temperature settings gets annoying.