Remoska OR combi micro?

HelenKA_2

Yes, I'd like to know if it really is cheaper as a little bird told me that since the combi 'vents' all the time they aren't actually cheaper to run.

Of course the total time for heating up oven and cooking will likely be shorter (think 30 mins for fruit cake on combi instead of 1hr in conventional) but does it work harder? My DH says a real oven has to have it's own ring so that means it takes more elec but it is probably insulated better so once it's reached temp it doesn't have to work so hard to keep it there. Certainly using the combi micro as a convection oven only takes moments to heat to temperature instead of a good 15-20 mins that the real oven takes.

Anyone else?

To the OP - couldn't your mother do double dishes of stuff she's making for their (presumably midday) meal for you to get heated through when you get home?- rather than each of you cooking from scratch each day?

suki1964

HelenKA wrote: »

To the OP - couldn't your mother do double dishes of stuff she's making for their (presumably midday) meal for you to get heated through when you get home?- rather than each of you cooking from scratch each day?

Sorry I had to laugh at this.

Mother cooked the Christmas cake - big oven on for about 5 hours - and then made a casserole the following day :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

God love her, shes not poor and really cant see that saving energy is something that needs to be done because "we can afford it"

Addiscomber

suki1964 I should like to thank you for this thread, as you have likely saved me the cost of a Grand Remoska, let alone any extras that I decided to get for it. As I have said on the Remoska thread, I have doubts about where I could use it safely, and don't like the reports of tripping the electrics, let alone whether I would recoup the initial outlay before it wore out.

After reading your thread it dawned on me that our microwave is a combination one although I have only ever used it as a microwave. I have read the manual and find that it is 950 watts, so only 200 watts more than the Grand Remoska that I would need for 4 adult appetites, but no capital expenditure required before I can start reducing the amount of electricity we use, and no space or safety issues.

I have been organising some old recipe cuttings lately, and I thought about your mother's use of the oven when I was reading some of them, as the first instruction is always to put the oven on even if resting pastry for half an hour after making is involved :eek: I am in my late 50's and I don't ever remember my Mum worrying about the cost of having the oven on, but then we didn't have central heating and the kitchen was flippin' cold in winter, so I wonder if your Mum's attitude is partly from the heat making a previous kitchen bearable in winter and the cost ignored for that reason?

poodlehorse

I had no kitchen for a while and had both a combi micro and Remoska along with various other gadgets. Although my remoska saved my bacon a few times trying to get various bits of the meal ready at once for example, and it cooks beautifully I think I would vote for the combi, even at 36 the element in the lid concerns me, my mum was keen on getting mine after we finished the kitchen but I put her off because of the element as she is little and has problems with her wrists anyway and I could just see an accident happening, plus my dad has dementia and at the time was still at home. So lots of pros for the remoska but one big minus unfortunately. I do still use mine for sausages (it gets called the sausage cooker as it is FAB at that) and for things like a few chips and fish fingers if DS is eating something other than us on a curry night etc. The combi micro never gets used now but I love my new oven too much to not use it but it would still be my suggestion for you.