Remoska cookers (merged)

Penelope_Penguin

esmf73 wrote: »

I was wondering about a Remoska, because everyone raves about them and they apparently use less electricity.

Not everyone

kittie wrote: »

my remoska is one of the most worked items in my kitchen. I bake and cook every day and hardly ever use my big oven these days. My sourdough bread cooks in the grande remoska in just 40 minutes

:eek: It takes me about 20 mins in a Rayburn; meanwhile I'm cooking a batch of fairy cakes, a tray of scones, and soup in the bottom oven I've also got somewhere to warm my [STRIKE]bum[/STRIKE] tea towels

Penny. x

geordie_joe

msb5262 wrote: »

Excuse me, but I understand grilling to be cooking with the heat source above the food. If this is the case then grilling is the only thing a remoska can do!
(quoted post #4 from Geordie Joe)
Actually, to grill means to cook by direct radiant heat or flame. Usually the heat source when grilling is above the food, but this doesn't mean the Remoska is a grill!

Or, if you believe wiki "Grilling is a form of cooking that involves dry heat from above or below". Which means that a remoska may not be called a grill, but as it is chucking out dry heat from above the food it IS grilling.

msb5262 wrote: »

Obviously in a Remoska the heat source is above the food, but it is a gentler form of heat than the extremely fierce heat of a grill.

Grilling doesn't have to involve "extremely fierce heat".

msb5262 wrote: »

there are lots of MSE-ers on these forums who swear by their Remoskas.

I don't think there are as many as you think. I looked into the remoska thread not long ago, to specifically answer this point. What I found was there are many people in there who rave about having just ordered one, or just received one. But once they have them they don't come back into the thread to rave about them.

I think they are "persuaded" to buy one by the posts in the thread, but once they have one they realise they are not as good as everyone in the threads says, so they go quite about them.

Yes, there are a few who swear they love them and use them every day, but many more are exited enough to post saying how exited the are at ordering one, but then don't bother to let us know they have used it.

thriftlady_2

geordie_joe wrote: »

Taking a unit of electricity to be 12p.

A standard Remoska would cost 2p and an electric oven using 1500watts would be 4p (figures rounded to nearest whole penny).

However, a standard remoska is only 21cm in diameter, so you won't get many scones in it. You'd have to do several batches of scones in a remoska to match what you could do in an oven.

So it's twice as much to use the oven and you can bake twice as much (or more -I often make triple batches of baked goods and cook large quantities of stew). So no advantage moneywise. I don't really 'get' Remoskas.

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Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Not everyone



:eek: It takes me about 20 mins in a Rayburn; meanwhile I'm cooking a batch of fairy cakes, a tray of scones, and soup in the bottom oven I've also got somewhere to warm my [STRIKE]bum[/STRIKE] tea towels

Penny. x

I used to have a solid fuel aga and it was always on and yes an aga would be wonderful but also horrendously expensive to run. Is your rayburn always on?

I am afraid not everyone can afford to run a rayburn or aga. I have a very thick breadstone in my electric oven and bake sourdough in a pot in there ie trying to replicate real bread oven conditions but everything has to be thoroughly heated first for an hour before baking so the remoska is a wonderful energy saver and the sourdough, plus remoska, makes superb, delicious bread

buxtonrabbitgreen

I never felt the need for this Remoska thingy. I was persuaded to buy a slow cooker. But the handle fell off after 3 (rubbish imo) uses so I took it back. The pnasonic breadmaker however takes up most of my available space and it is not wasted space at all as I use it at least once every day. And even though the kids (teens) before you all gasp with horror have to get the electic knife out to slice the bread, they would rather do that than eat bought bread.

geordie_joe

thriftlady wrote: »

So no advantage moneywise.

No, but I suppose if you are the kind of person who only cooks/bakes small quantities then you could save a couple of pence per day. But at £120 for a standard remoska you'd have to use it every day for about 17 years before the pennies saved would pay for the remoska.

renegade

COOKINGMAMMA.
I had the same expectations when I bought mine and like you was very very disappointed with the results of everything I cooked. Lakeland kindly took it back and issued a full refund.

thriftlady_2

geordie_joe wrote: »

But at £120 for a standard remoska.

Gosh I had no idea they were that sort of price! I imagined they were around the same cost as a slow cooker or bread maker.

I do think it is a shame that so many people seem to come on the board and go away with the idea that buying a gadget that does the same things as their ovens is what Old Style is all about.

Samphire

Personally, I like my remouska. I took it with me when we were on holiday as last year the oven in the caravan we rented was awful (and the door didn't stay closed when cooking, not ideal with two small kids about) and it was a lifesaver. It does a fab cooked breakfast all in one pan left pretty much to it's own devices. It makes great baked spuds and raosted veggies, and this week I'm going to try leaving it to do this on a timer so they are ready when we get home. I haven't had it long, so haven't experimented much, but as I said I like it. I don't think they are for everyone though- I also found that food takes longer to cook than expected and they are very pricy.

geordie_joe

thriftlady wrote: »

Gosh I had no idea they were that sort of price! I imagined they were around the same cost as a slow cooker or bread maker.

Sorry, made a mistake when typing, it's the grand remoska that is £120, the Standard one is "only" £100.