Range Cooker News: July 2026

The big range cooker story of the fortnight is not a launch, it is your energy bill. The Ofgem price cap has just gone up, heating oil has gone the other way, and two brands are running summer offers worth timing a purchase around. Here is what landed at the turn of July.

The Ofgem price cap rose on 1 July, and it hits fuels unevenly

The energy price cap went up on 1 July 2026, adding roughly 13% for a typical direct debit household and taking the headline figure to about £1,663 a year. The detail matters more than the headline if you cook on a range: electricity moved up to 26.11p per kWh, while gas jumped to 7.33p per kWh. Gas rose around 24% this quarter against roughly 5% on electricity, so the rise falls hardest on gas and dual fuel cookers rather than electric ones. For anyone weighing an electric heat storage cooker like an Everhot or an electric AGA against a gas or dual fuel Rangemaster or Stoves, that gap is now wider than it was in June, and it is worth putting real numbers to before you commit. The new rates are set out on the Ofgem price cap page. Our range cooker running cost calculator lets you plug the July figures straight in, and the AGA running costs guide puts the fuels side by side.

Heating oil is near a yearly low as the summer window opens

For off-grid country kitchens running an oil-fired AGA or Rayburn, the news runs the opposite way. BoilerJuice put the UK average domestic heating oil price at around 74p a litre on 2 July 2026, down from roughly 95p in early June and a long way below the painful highs of the spring. Summer is usually the cheap window before demand climbs again from autumn, so if your tank is low this is the sensible time to fill it rather than waiting. The one thing that could push prices back up is tension in the Middle East, which has kept the wider oil market jumpy through 2026, so there is a case for not leaving it too late. If you are still comparing oil against electric and gas on current rates, the AGA running costs guide lays it out.

Falcon is throwing in a free Dutch oven until 31 July

If Falcon is on your shortlist, the timing is worth noting. Buy any Falcon range cooker before 31 July 2026 and you get a free Nuovva cast iron Dutch oven casserole pot, dispatched separately from the cooker. Falcon is the semi-professional sister brand to Rangemaster, built in the same Leamington Spa factory, so a heavy casserole pot is a genuinely useful match for the sort of slow cooking these cookers are bought for rather than a throwaway extra. It is a modest sweetener, but on a cooker you would have bought anyway it is free money. The offer is listed on the Rangecookers.co.uk promotions page. Our best range cookers 2026 guide covers where Falcon sits against the rest of the field.

Bertazzoni is covering installation and old-cooker removal until 31 August

The other summer offer worth flagging deals with the awkward part of buying a range: getting the old one out and the new one in. Bertazzoni is offering free installation and removal of your old cooker, which it values at £355, on all its 90cm and wider range cookers until 31 August 2026. Shifting a heavy old range and fitting a new one properly is a real cost and a real hassle, so having it covered takes a genuine line off the bill rather than a token discount. The terms are on the Rangecookers.co.uk promotions page. If you are still working out width, fuel and what the installation actually involves, our range cooker buying guide walks through it before you order.