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Oven broke last night...how am I going to cook a turkey dinner now?
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This happened to me Xmas Eve last year!
To be honest, I saw the funny side of it. If your cooker is going to break down, it'll be at Xmas.
I just called my folks who I knew weren't having Xmas dinner at home, drove down to their house, got them to stick the turkey and spuds in their oven, picked it up Xmas day lunchtime, got it home (it was still warm), did the rest of the veg on the hob, job's a good un.
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Not Xmas eve but the late afternoon before my mum and dad's 20th wedding aniversary which they were celebrating wiith a house party for about 40 people. Gas was cut of when the gas board dug up a gas main they thought had no houses attached to it. It had ours and our only neighbour's. After phoning up, getting messed around because I wasn't the bill payer (my dad was and he and mum were both at work). they finaly agreed to send us an electric cooker. Mum got home form work I explained what had happened and sure enough about an hour later a van rolled up and a guy handed me - a two ring baby belling cooker and grill. I was raging. Mum was raging.
The gas people were very unhelpful when phoned up. So with no oven. A 2 ring baby belling, a two ring camping gas stove - which has to be used outside, a slow cooker, a grill and a Hostess heated tray that mum and dad got for a wedding present (and is still going strong). Mum and her boys got everything done. I had to take 2 roasts to my aunties to get cooked and bring them back on my bike wrapped in foil in a big cardboard box as well as cooking veg in a giant army cookpot on the camping stoves outside.
Everyone in my family and mum and dad friends remember this. It took them 7 weeks to get the gas back on.
That night was the first time I was allowed a drink by my parents, First time my youngest brother got drunk (What's that you are drinking Euan? Lemonade mum. as he guzzled Babycham ! his hangover was hilarious in the morning and he still gets i told to friends 30 years on).The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. Terry Pratchett
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Crisis over
While at work and hubby home sons friends dad who's in the trade disconnected very old gas cooker and put in garaged (for 3 years) second hand electric cooker....and only charged us £20.
this one was only 9 months old when we bought it and has a double oven...I'm like a pig *&^% now lol
Although I'm sorted out now I do hope no one else breaks but if it does now then this thread will be helpful.0 -
Just a quick thought, and I know you're sorted now, but if you call your local kitchen fitters they may have an old one that's waiting to be recycled. Often when people have a new kitchen they throw out perfectly useable appliances which the kitchen company are happy to get rid of FOC.0
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I am cooking a neighbour's turkey for them tomorrow. It's not that her oven is broken, just that she's got a lot of other things to cook as well. I don't mind doing her a favour (and I'll get some of her HM mince pies as well...). It is Christmas after all!Val.0
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If it's any help my OH has just suggested an idea - cut the bird up into small cubes, push onto a cocktail stick and cook over a candle. I do realise that this may take a little while, but what fun, and every one can help and do their bit!!!!!!!!!
I also think that he should go for a little lie down as obviously his Scouts have got to him this year!!!!!!!!!:rotfl:
I do have a horrible feeling though that he is being serious and will try this method out during the spring term :eek:0 -
we moved house last year 2 weeks before xmas and although our cooker was due to be delivered on the 20th it never arrived luckily we have moved a couple doors down from my mum so she did the turkey, all veg was done in microwave and i always have the preparpared pots from finest tesco range in my freezer as a fall back lol so we were fine0
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I saw a recipe in a newspaper for cooking a turkey in a dishwasher!
Wrap it tightly and waterproofly, don't add detergent, and do it on a few long cycles.Murphy's No More Pies Club #209
Total debt [STRIKE]£4578.27[/STRIKE] £0.00 :j
100% paid off :j
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On a TV programme a few weeks ago, I saw something about using energy properly... They built a reinforced cardboard box, insulated it inside and out with a few layers of tin foil, and made sure that the central part of the box was large enough for a turkey/chicken etc.
Make sure also that you have a tight fitting removable lid, wire up a few 60W old-fashioned lightbulb and put the bird on a wire tray. Turn on the lightbulbs and wait a few hours for the heat to rise and slowly cook the bird...
Who needs a 1.4kW oven when you can cook with two lightbulbs...?
PS the exercise was not really about cooking the bird, more about how much heat is wasted - this is only a way of using the energy to cook something...Having fun trying to save money without going over the top and living on budget food all the time...0
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