Range Cookers, advice please.

[Lesley Jay]

Ours is a rangemaster toledo also, but with gas hob, gas grill, one large gas oven and one fan assisted electric oven. The gas oven fitted a 24lb turkey in in 2005.

If you like cooking, it has to be a gas hob, far more controlable than electric.

Piglet as we both have the same cooker then my ovens will also fit a 24lb turkey in!!

I love cooking but hate gas!!!

[Hans Mum]

hi, if you can hang on until later in the year we ordered ours at the Good Food Show at the NEC, at we saved over �600 and it was delivered very quickly its a Cannon 1000 with electric ovens (fan and conventional) warming/proving oven and grill with 6 gas rings its fab and a joy to use and keep clean

[wellie]

Peter, don't buy anything remotely stainless steel, and if you both adore cooking and have a big kitchen, or the kitchen may be 'extended' in the near future, and you can justify the cost, go for a Raeburn or Aga. Lots of people are frightened of these cookers, but the newer ones aren't rocket-science, being like ordinary gas-controlled ranges, and because they are always switched on (as in just ticking over kind of temperature) they keep the dog/kitchen/your bum warm....
And you can oven-dry your tomatoes, warm your gloves, sox, slippers and just everything.
Honestly, it' a purchase you'd never regret. I've got my squash seeds germinating on mine at the minute.....!

[budmap]

my oh bought the same cooker as hans mum also at the good food show and have to agree about how good it is we saw the same cooker in the january sales for 300 quid more than we had paid for it

[Percy T]

Hi Peter

dont know if you have purchased your new range cooker yet but thought I would let you know my thoughts

I spent six months looking for the right range cooker about 8years ago. I have a range master and I love it.

It has 5 gas burners one being a large burner great for wok cooking or a big pots of pasta, this burner is also has two gridle plates one flat make great pancakes and one ridged, great for cooking meat. It has a plate warmer and if you pot your coffee pot on it will keep warm for quited a while.

Electric grill that you can either heat the whole grill or only half of it, great for solo bacon sandwich's.

Two electric oven one fan assisted and its not stainless steel, cos I would be able to keep it smear free.

Many years ago when I was a little girl my Aunt had a simular cooker and had wanted one since then.

[TPeers]

We also have a range style cooker from the cheaper end of the market - a baumatic. It is stainless steel - a mistake - and the fifth burner is a long thin job for putting a griddle on, which, on the rare occasions I want to make american pancakes, is excellent.

The ovens are electric, the main is fan assisted and their is a rotisery in the small oven - wonderful! No problems with the motor or anything else but the clock is a pest as it has a remote oven control thingy which is highly irritating. I have a friend with the same make and model oven - hers did 'blow-up' (the main element fused) on Christmas Day - so the oven has a good sense of timing!

The doors lift off so cleaning is not too hard, and generally I like it! The OH says it is too low down as he hates bending but that's where the floor is!!!

[beefy]

The OH says it is too low down as he hates bending but that's where the floor is!!!

You could always put a couple of bricks in below each corner.That would raise it up a bit

[TPeers]

You could always put a couple of bricks in below each corner.That would raise it up a bit

He is very tempted - don't encorage him!

[laura g]

I'm a newbie to this forum. Know absolutely nothing about gardening and growing your own as yet, so happy to cling pathetically to a thread which I have a bit of experience of!!!

We've just moved and I have left my beloved stainless steel dual fuel 1100mm range behind. I LOVE stainless steel btw -babyoil highly recommended. Mine had 4 regular burners, a huge high speed one and a warming/hot plate. Two lx ovens, one fan and one regular and a grill.

If I was doing it all again, I've learned I need the burners but not necessarily two ovens. One giant would do. Hotplate was gimmicky and used far more for drying socks than keeping plates warm. Best investment we made was a heavy duty griddle. Overspent on the cooker and kitchen so I did the coooker hood ventilation on the cheap which was a bit of a mistake that I wouldnt make again.

Not that I'll get the chance to make a kitchen mistake in the future anyway as all spare cash is going into this gardening malarkey, which is proving extremely addictive!!

[Happydigger]

For those of you with stainless steel try the micro fibre cloths as sold at B & Q for Stainless steel with Mr Mussle Glass cleaner worked wonders on our Smeg untill it got replaced with Neff built in jobie