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7th April 2008, 09:08 AM #1
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Stoves???
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?
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7th April 2008, 09:16 AM #2
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why not a decent BBQ where you can do it all
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7th April 2008, 09:17 AM #3
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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.
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7th April 2008, 09:46 AM #4
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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. GeorgeCliff.
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7th April 2008, 05:36 PM #5
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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.
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7th April 2008, 05:48 PM #6
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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."I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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7th April 2008, 05:53 PM #7
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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.
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7th April 2008, 11:32 PM #8
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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.Cliff.
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7th April 2008, 11:43 PM #9
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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"If you need a machine today and don't buy it,
tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
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8th April 2008, 06:54 AM #10
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I can still use my Chef even in a blackout.Never done it but I know I can.
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8th April 2008, 07:19 AM #11
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But how do you regulate the oven temperature if it has an electronic thermo?
Originally Posted by Steve Fryar
The cook top is no wukkers, I know.
Cheers,
Bob
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8th April 2008, 10:10 AM #12
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You're right about the oven.
Still cook something though.
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8th April 2008, 11:26 AM #13
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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
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8th April 2008, 11:52 AM #14
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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.
Mick
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8th April 2008, 12:03 PM #15
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My Mum made pork crackling in her electric wall oven last weekend. Maybe I should put you in touch with her
"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."
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