Rarely does a week go by when someone doesn’t ask me what type of oven I have and would I recommend it. So I thought I would write a quickie post on why I love it.
I have had my Falcon Professional cooker for over three years now, and yes, I absolutely love it. Without being too gushy, it’s the best cooker I’ve ever cooked with and it’s my favourite kitchen appliances.
And yes, I love it more than my Thermomix.
My kitchen has never looked so good! Photo by professional photographer whose name I can’t recall. Kitchen reno by Interiors by Darren James. Love them too.
My favourite features are:
- gas cooktop, electric oven. I love stove top cooking with gas, I hate gas ovens.
- it’s made by Aga, and I’ve read sooo many English novels where the heroine has an aga that I’ve ALWAYS wanted one. Yeah I know. Luckily it’s a highly respected brand!
- it’s 900mm so I can fit a lot in the oven, which is perfect for those nights I’m cooking a roast/tray of meat and 3 big trays of veg (most weeks I do this at least once)
- the teppanyaki plate – sits across two gas burners and is non-stick. I use this every day, usually for breakfast to cook sautéed mushrooms, eggs, sometimes bacon. Bacon isn’t cooked on it often enough, but you know, trying to be healthy-ish. It’s also great for reheating roasted veg to have with said eggs and bacon for breakfast. I’m big on veggies for breakfast. I hate cereal and toast isn’t sufficient without a decent protein source. And we have chickens so we always have loads of eggs.
- the oven has a gizmo so you can split it in two – one section heats, one section is a warmer. Confession time: this was the #1 selling point for me with this oven as it made it more energy friendly, however I’ve never used this feature. I know, I know…
- five gas burners – this means the teppanyaki plate can fit over two of them and I still have three to use, and I use all three simultaneously a couple of times a week.
- a nifty storage drawer under the oven – whatever you do, don’t store plastic in this! No, I didn’t learn that from experience, but I did burn my finger when I took out a metal tray one day when the oven was on. Silly me…
- there is a version with pyrolytic cleaning (i.e. it cleans itself), however I didn’t buy this version as it was an extra $1,000 and I couldn’t justify it. Every time I clean the oven now my present self curses my past self. Sigh.
What don’t I love about it?
- I forget almost every time I bake that the top element heats hot and many of my cakes overcook on top without cooking through. I need to make the baking temp a bit lower than cookbooks suggest. Or just turn off the top element until my baking is 80% cooked. Yes, it lets you do this.
- changing to the energy saving oven feature – it’s a bit of a pain (why I’ve never used it).
What type of cooker do you have? And do you love cooking with gas too??
Disclaimer: Falcon haven’t paid me to write this, asked me to write this, or anything else at the time of writing. I just thought it would be an easy way of spreading a bit of Falcon love. I bought mine from Brisbane Appliances Sales in Brisbane, in case you are wondering. And yes, I would buy one again. Worth every penny.
Thanks for sharing. As I am in kitchen planning and reno mode, anything about peoples’ appliances thrills me!!
love your pics Mel ! and love my falcon too – my Lady Aga. I use the oven with the divider in , mostly as I bought extras of the small shelves. And thanks to your excellent advice, I am using my Teppanyaki plate regularly. Cheers
aren’t they great Feed your Inner Cook??
Totally agree Mel ! I think I use it at least twice a day and getting ready to use it again. Happy cooking
I have just installed the Falcon Classic Delux. I love it.
It has 2 ovens, one multi function and one fan forced. It has a separate grill and a storage drawer. The gas top has a wok burner and 4 other burners.
It has a ceramic plate with a non stick griddle.
Sounds massive doesn’t it. Well it is 110cm but looks awesome.
This cooker replaced our Rayburn so we have stayed with the same family.
So far no cooking disasters and everything works as should.
Hope this helps anyone considering a new cooker.
I have now thrown out my electric wok, frypan and use the cooker for everything. So easy…
hi Lynette, isn’t it great??? Thanks for commenting
I’m looking at this oven. Can you please tell me how many shelves/racks it comes with?
hi Mia, it has 6 shelves and 2 wire racks. It also has two trays that fit in another rack – you can use the trays with or without the rack, they are about 3cm deep
I purchased the 900 mm falcon pro with the pyrolytic oven wow what an awesome cooking experience it is. The cooker was worth every cent . As soon as you begin cooking you know you have bought Avery superior product. So many features that actually exceeded my expectations, the oven is a dream to use, the self cleaning oven is a huge bonus. I love the gas cooktop, the easyclean griddle does eggs pancakes everything you could imagine, no mess with the lip surround on griddle. My prize kitchen appliance and so classy looking.
yes!! Isn’t it fabulous?
Hi, I just bought the PROFESSIONAL 90fx and loving the energy saving panel. I use the oven more often to warm pie and leftover. I do noticed once the oven is warm it browns my cooking really fast too. So I have to swap the position of what I am cooking from centre to lower shelf. Love how my roast chicken skin is so crispy. I just have a question, for baking, would you recommend conventional oven setting or fan forced?
Hi. I just found your post. I lusted after the Falcon professional but I am struggling to bake bread. I am not sure whether to use the fan oven or fan assisted oven. Do you have an opinion? I feel the oven doesnt heat up as much as my old crappy oven used to but maybe it’s because the Falcon is accurate.
Hi, I dont bake bread but i do bake scroll. Scrolls bake really well in this oven. For baking I usually use conventional oven setting (no fan). I heat it up on fan setting first so it heats up faster.