Can anyone recommend a gas cooker? We're looking to buy a standalone, nothing fancy.
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Gas cooker recommendation
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F explained on 07/03/2014 :
My wife likes to use a stand-alone gas cooker with eye-level grill, and as she does all the cooking, she chooses. I can't answer your question but I can tell you to stay away from the New World 55HLG - she says it's absolute crap and wishes she'd never got it.
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I only have one recommendation -DO NOT buy a cooker that is wider than the gap the old cooker fitted into...............
BTW I will be going back to gas the next time I buy a new cooker. Well sort of - I will keep an electric fan assisted oven and just have a gas hob.
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That's my preferred combination, too.
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Can anyone recommend a gas cooker? We're looking to buy a standalone, nothing fancy.
Go into Selco... Look at the CDA range of equipment.
We have a 1000mm dual gas oven 6 burner range....They do smaller though so check them out So far... bloody good !
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Really too difficult to answer without knowing what sort of cooking you do, whether you ever do "large family" meals, and how much other space you have available.
FWIW I have a 1000 mm 6 ring range cooker with one fan and one non-fan oven and gas rings. But halogen rings are nearly as good as gas, and much cleaner. I also have a microwave, a "halogen oven" which is basically a big glass bowl with a fan and halogen heaters in the lid: and I am very pleased with it, much faster to temperature than a "metal" oven and it gets a lot of use. And an electric griddle, and an electric steamer, and a George Foreman grill. I don't use that much, but (just cooking for two more often than not) I use the worktop appliances quite a lot. I wouldn't be without the big cooker because I'm typically cooking for 12 at Xmas and family gatherings. But I have the space for it.
Someone else commented on eye-level gas grills. I havn't had one for years and they are getting rare, but the *good* ones are very good. They just don't fit so well in the typical modern kitchen.
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Thanks, I'll remember that! The gap is 625mm so we're looking to insert a 600mm cooker into it. I assume 12.5mm either side is adequate...?
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Cooking and baking for two.
625mm gap to fill.Waist level (ie not eye level) grill preferred.
Gas oven and gas hob preferred.
And that's about it.
Oh, and it needs to last so a reliable brand is what we're most interested in in terms of recommendations. Steve's New World warning has been noted.
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That's a odd gap. You might want to fit a "filler" panel to prevent food & crud falling down the sides.
Personally, I wouldn't have a gas oven again. Having moved to fan electric I *much* prefer it. My old gas oven seemed to be hugely influenced by the oven contents in terms of getting up to temperature. A large load of baking potatoes would just about stop it in its tracks. No such problem with the fan oven.
Despite being a gas hob fan for years, my next cooker will be an induction one for the speed, controllability and ease of cleaning.
Tim
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It will fit better than the 600mm wide cooker I bought to fit into a 550mm gap:-)
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I just realised, after reading this, that my original enquiry was ambiguous. I didn't add 'for a relative'! We have a gas hob and a fan electric double oven, and the combination works well. The relative wants an all-in-one gas cooker.
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The instructions for my Stoves dual fuel free standing cooker didn't specify a gap, so there isn't one :-)
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Just tell him/her that he/she is mistaken. ;-)
Tim
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Or maybe they're biased from experience of much older appliances.
Eg my mother is sure she'd only ever want a gas hob, for controlability. But actually she finds it quite hard to use. In a brightly lit kitchen, she sometimes can't see the burner flames very well. She's also, in my view, getting careless of the risks of open flames, often forgetting that she's left a burner on and then wafting a hand or arms too close to them. I've seen her bend over a cooker when wearing a lightweight (chiffony?) scarf, that missed dangling in a flame only by a miracle.
I've a halogen hob - nothing expensive - but the present one with 9 levels of near-instantly changing level on each 'burner' is IMO at least as responsive as any gas thing I've used in the past.
Mum also has an increasing tendency to let things boil over. Yes, with a gas hob the typical top-plate design catches spills well, but to wipe it up you have to wait for the supports to cool down then clear them off the top of the cooker. Spills on the halogen hob aren't contrained so well, but in some ways that helps as spill can flow to a cooler part of the hob top, and a first wipe can be done nearly immediately.
Gas presumably costs less to cook with than electricity, but I've no idea if that is a significant difference - it's going to depend on whether you use all the burners all the time, or only boil an egg once a month...
Gas also - but does anyone actually bother? - presumably like every other gas appliance is meant to be checked or serviced every year. That's always struck me as quite a high ongoing cost.