Gas Cookers In Flats

Please explain why you think that ? What's wrong with gas ovens ?

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stillnobodyhome
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It can depend on your style of cooking - what's right with them is also what's wrong with them - they are cold at the bottom! There are quite determined cooks who view this as a Good Thing and fair play to them (each to their own) but, for speed, convenience and feeding more people with other than a traditional roast, many are won over by fan ovens. For me, taking into account space, price, looks, the ideal combination is a gas hob plus an electric fan double oven with the top oven doubling as a grill.

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Bob Mannix

Having had both, I have to agree. There are occasions when I slighty miss having the temperature zones of a gas oven but the disadvantages are more than outweighed by the better performance of the fan oven at all other times.

It's my impression that gas ovens rarely have the heat output required to cook larger quantities of food. Try cooking lots of baked potatoes in a gas oven and they take an age (and need shuffling round to avoid over/under cooking). My fan over seems to lose much less heat (presumably due to having much smaller vents) than my old gas oven.

Tim

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Tim Downie

So perhaps I should be considering replacing my fan assisted oven with another one and just keeping the gas hob . The one I have ,Indesit single oven with grill ,doesn't heat to the marked temperature so I need to use a thermometer and I hate the grill which is when I wish I had my old eye-level gas grill .

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stillnobodyhome

Single oven with grill is a bit pants if they are separate. If the grill is in the oven then it's really pants! Get a double oven where the top oven (which may or not be fan) doubles as the grill. The trade off is in the size of the lower oven but this is more than compensated for by having another oven/grill

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Bob Mannix

LOL...Mine is "really pants " then . A single F/A oven with the grill element in .A smaller oven wouldn't be a loss as I only cook for myself .

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stillnobodyhome

A good electric one is likely to be far more accurate temperature wise. Negating the need to 'learn' your oven if you follow recipes. Of course some like the temperature differential you get between top and bottom on a gas one - that's just choice. Electric don't get so dirty either - especially fan ones with the even temperature. The ideal one to me is a double oven - both fan assisted - where the top one includes a grill.

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Dave Plowman (News)

As I said (hooray!)...except I don't agree about the dirty bit. The sides and top get just as dirty but the base in a fan oven is worse as stuff bakes on whereas it can stay a bit gloopy in a gas oven and therefore easier to clean.

And I feel an non-fan electric oven is no more accurate than a gas oven. A fan oven *will* be more accurate

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Bob Mannix

Thx for all the comments .I have since been looking at double ovens .Some are ,obviously ,"built under" and some "built in" . My present one is "built under" but is it possible to put a "built in" below a worktop or is this not feasable ? One I looked at was 900mm deep which would mean it was almost sitting on the floor in my case . I'm guessing these ones are intended to go in to units so they are placed much higher up at face level..

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stillnobodyhome

Don't forget the "slot-in" variety (whatever that means). I feel inclined to have a free standing gas cooker with the glass lid but I've no doubt there is some regulation stating that it has to be a certain distance from adjoining base units.

My present

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stuart noble

I have had a slot in gas cooker with lid before. It was fine and can go up against the cabinets. Beware 500/600mm wide variants - I discovered the

600mm wide one I bought had the same oven and grill as the 500mm wide one with bigger gaps at the side!

The last such I bought was one of these

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embodies all the good things (dual fuel, fan oven, separate top oven etc) and did the biz. Now have more stylish kitchen with built under double oven and gas hob (Hotpoint).

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Bob Mannix

I should point out that the one shown above does *not* suffer from the

500/600 scam!
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Bob Mannix

If you dont need full size I'd look at a combi cooker. TBH they beat the pants off conventional gas or electric cookers. They do exactly the same job, plus will nuke and burn at the same time, which is soooo fast but still with good results. And they take up way less space, and installing is is dead easy - just plug in. And they come with built in grill etc etc...

NT

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meow2222

So it looks like "slot-in" just means "free standing" then? The proximity of the cabinets seems to be a bit of a grey area. I've had one installed like that for years, but I just have this nagging feeling it must be illegal by now. Consulting the manufacturer hasn't been that productive so far.

I am sort of tempted by the microwave combi idea, especially as we already use a standard microwave a lot. I wonder what the limitations are. Can you grill a cake? Hm, maybe not.

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stuart noble

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stillnobodyhome

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