Stoves???

[Christopha]

Please don't move this to the bloody cooking thread!

I am at last able to buy myself a stove, I have been living in the beach shack since last June without a stove. I finally have some bucks to buy myself a decent stove and am wondering:
1; Electric?
2; Gas? (will have to be lpg)
3; Gas top, electric oven?
4; BRAND?

[wheelinround]

why not a decent BBQ where you can do it all

[Gingermick]

If you need precise heat control you need a gas cook top. If you want to bake and roast and make pizza's well you will need a gas oven. (IMHO) I have yet to cook on an electric that has made life easy for me.

[Cliff Rogers]

3. Is the way to go in my opinion & if you can, get a combo top with one electric ring & the rest gas.

Our top is a Highland & our oven is a St. George

[Steve Fryar]

Gas everything.LPG same as me.I live in the bush so I have no choice.Anyway LPG is hotter and cleaner than natural gas.And power blackouts won't affect you.As for what I have,the best,CHEF.
Cheers,Steve.

[silentC]

Gas cook top electric oven. Don't ask me why, it just is.

Ours is Glem Gas. Made in Italy and imported by Glem Gas Australia.

Our roasts come out good :)

A modern Gas oven would need power too anyway, so no good in blackouts.

[Christopha]

I used to have a nice fan forced electric oven which I got on with very well, it was self cleaning too so that was a plus. In Bidgy when I was working in the NW I had a gas stove, I liked the top but didn't much like the oven.
I don't want St George as I know of two that died young and very spectacularly (1 was about 30seconds from incinerating the house) and no backup from the dealers at all. Hardly Normals have a "St Emilio" or something like that, does anyone know what they are like? I guess I will have to fit a range hood too... strewth! Something else I know sod all about! Fitted any amount years ago but wouldn't have a clue nowadays.

[Cliff Rogers]

Our St. George came with a 5 year warranty.
One of the elments stopped working & they sent a bloke out to fix it.... 100Kms from the nearest big city.

[journeyman Mick]

Gas cooktop with wok burner/electric fan forced oven is the way to go IMHO. Precise control and fast heat for cooking and best for baking, especially cakes etc.

Mick

[Steve Fryar]

I can still use my Chef even in a blackout.Never done it but I know I can.

[Honorary Bloke]

I can still use my Chef even in a blackout.Never done it but I know I can.

But how do you regulate the oven temperature if it has an electronic thermo? :? The cook top is no wukkers, I know. :)

[Steve Fryar]

You're right about the oven.:-Still cook something though.:2tsup:

[Ashore]

Gas top definately
As your on you own go for a good convection microwave, you get the fan forced electric oven with the adventage of adding some micro as well , or just using it as a microwave. We've used this as our only oven for 9 years with no complaints :2tsup:

[Gingermick]

Of course as gas has no moving mechanical parts (apart from a fan in the oven that isn't always necessary) you don't really need to worry about service. If you lose power or knock the igniter off a burner you just use a match.
I've never sucessfully made pork crackling in an electric oven, but have no probs in the gas.
But then I'm a gourmet. :D :D :D

[silentC]

My Mum made pork crackling in her electric wall oven last weekend. Maybe I should put you in touch with her :)

[Gingermick]

I'm used to rentals and have never had a decent electric. Am so used to them being hopeless that when we bought a new oven we didn't look at electrics.

[rrich]

SWMBO says that a gas cook top is OK but she really likes her electric one.

She also said that an electric oven is the only way to go. Simply because they are available as self cleaning models an that the electric ones self clean much better than the gas models.

So to be sure that I'm discussing the correct appliance...
The refrigerator is the tall skinny one and the stove is the short fat one, correct?

[Christopha]

So to be sure that I'm discussing the correct appliance...
The refrigerator is the tall skinny one and the stove is the short fat one, correct?
Hmmm... this make me a "Refigistove".... Tall and fat!

OK, after talking here and to a couple of local ladies it looks like I will be doing the gas top,electric oven thing. I have just gotten rid of a convection/microwave, I wasn't keen on it even though the "ex" liked the thing.
Now, brands! I want the absolutely best quality at bargain prices..... HELP!

[Gingermick]

Maybe a "GMC platinum" oven deluxe

[echnidna]

Chef's a good brand.
For some reason I don't fancy imported brands

[Harry72]

Pity your not around my neck of the woods I have one for sale... only 12~18mths old.

[ernknot]

What the heck do you want a stove for? Can't cool beer in it. Next you will be looking for a washing machine and vacuum cleaner etc.
Beach shack = BBQ