Ovens, whats your preference?

floyd

Thankyou everyone for your replies, I had been secretly lusting after a small Rangemaster Elan 90 with gas hob and fan oven so after hearing that many of you cope well with a fan oven for baking I may have to start some serious saving!
It will probably take some adjusting to as I have always had gas but this last gas oven we had was so appalling that I considered giving up baking because the results were so unpredictable.
I might invite myself to my mums for a baking session as she has a new Siemens electric oven that has lots of different functions so I will see how I get on with a fan oven

seraphina

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

I have an electric hob and electric fan oven. Both do the job perfectly well. Having watched my mother try and cook christmas dinner with her gas hob i'm very glad i dont have one!
It may be a problem with the gas supply in her area but she can only have one pot on to boil at a time She can have all four rings on but if you turn one up, the others go down! It is about 17 years old though and may be giving up the ghost.
She is replacing them in January with a new double electric oven with that funky incinerate all dirt off the inside function (i want one), and an induction hob.

Funny you should say that - everyone I know raved about gas hobs but our new house has a gas hob and I am distinctly underwhelmed. Like your mum's even on full whack it takes ages for a large pot of water to get to the boil, and the lowest simmer on the smallest ring isn't low enough.

beautiful_ravens

Im a bit late to this thread, but might as wel chip in!!
I have had a Belling electric fan-oven for the past 5 years, and TBH I hate it. I grew up cooking in a normal electric oven, and NO CAKES EVER WORK IN A FAN OVEN!! well not for me, and I dont like there NOT being a hotter or cooler part of the oven.
Gas just scares me because of gas leaks.
We used to have a huge double oven with a griddle on it was the best - no frying pan required!
Also I like a seperate grill which doubles as a small oven.

greenbee

thriftlady wrote: »

I've had an electric fan oven plus a gas hob for the past 17 years and wouldn't want any other.

My current cooker is a Neff.

My Neff is even older than yours . I moved it hear from my grandparents' flat 12 years ago, and when it needed a part replacing (a spring had finally given up the ghost in the hinge 2 years ago) once we'd worked out the model (not on the list on the website) they still had hinges in stock for an oven that is over 25 years old! It's got a large fan top oven (but without the optional grill) and a small conventional bottom oven with a grill. The door is glass so I can keep an eye on what ever is cooking, and it bakes beautifully . I'm hoping it will last me a lot longer as it will be very expensive to replace.

I have 4 ring smeg gas hob - one of the 4 is a large wok ring, which I wanted, but it takes up the same amount of room as a normal 4-ring hob rather than needing the extra space for a 5 ring.

radiohelen

I love my new Neff oven. It has pyroclean.... LOVE pyroclean!! It's a fan oven that works pretty well. The temperatures run true, I checked with an oven thermometer. I can make cakes in it without problem. I've also got a combi oven up top which has micro and normal oven functions. Wicked jacket spuds in 12 minutes.

Bronnie

I've inherited a new but cheap electric fan oven with the house and after a year and a half, I can honestly say I hate it!

You know in the summer when you go on a boat trip and come back with windburn after 10 minutes? Well that's what it does to the food in my mind. I feel like it's a really harsh heat in there.

Give me back the old style freestanding gas cooker with it's temperature zoned oven and eye-level grill that I cooked with at home and as a newly-wed! I've got past the point where appearances matter now!!

floyd

Bronnie wrote: »

Give me back the old style freestanding gas cooker with it's temperature zoned oven and eye-level grill that I cooked with at home and as a newly-wed! I've got past the point where appearances matter now!!

The most reliable oven I ever used was one of these that once belonged to my Nanna, nothing EVER failed in it. How I wish I still had it, probably ended up in a skip when the new people moved in