Any everhot owners out there

Topaz65

Hi. I'm looking to get an Everhot 90 next Spring when I do up the kitchen in the house I've just bought. Lots to do first though. So am researching. Looked at Aga and Rayburn but they are expensive to run for a small household. I think I'll be putting in Solar panels if I can so am wondering how well the 90 might do with them. Also the site says it gives off about 500watts. Compared with an Aga's 1.5 or so this seems not to be much. Any advice on these things?

Yes, I saw Hayonwye's issue on another site too. It seemed to have been resolved with Everhot through usage meters. Pity they've gone quiet, I'd like to have heard more.

BERBY

Have a look at the Electrickit, you can control the amount of heat you want from it and claims to be less than £1 / day average running cost. Very flexible to use. You can get info from Cornish cooker conversions website

auntiehelen

Been following the Everhot thread for a while now...bought a second hand (actually its 20yrs old, so don't know how many hands!) 60 cms in burgundy, for £1,800. Its reconditioned with new ropes and ovens cleaned etc. The guys who delivered it ran through the ground rules for use...they said for optimal power savings the clue is in the name! EVERhot. It's important to figure out the oven temperatures you usually use (in my case 200c top oven and 150c lower)and keep them at that. Also, the position of the cooker in the kitchen alters how hot the cooker gets. In my case, I can run the simmer plate and lower oven at just '2' as the cooker is squeezed in between units, and loses very little heat. Once you've found out the ideal settings- leave them alone. The whole concept is to just pulse energy to maintain the status quo. If you turn it down or off, it has to suck extra energy to adjust on demand, which is not what it is designed to do. I had booked an appointment to get an estimate for a wood burning stove in the lounge (next to the kitchen) ready for this winter. I've now cancelled that appt. due to the fact the Everhot is heating the entire ground floor! I've started to leave the lounge door open to allow the warm air upstairs during the night. Its great to come downstairs and meet the warm air coming up in the morning! (Our dog will sleep easier this winter I suspect!) I was looking forward to taking a look at this month's power bill. I'm expecting a drop in gas (compared with September last year) and a corresponding hike in electricity. Unfortunately the meter reader told me yesterday that the meter's digital readout has packed up so this month will be an estimate so I'll have to wait for the verdict. However, if the gas heating stays off, as it has so far, I think I might be onto a winner. :beer: As if that wasn't enough, I chucked a tray of 'value' chicken portions in the top oven, just before I went out on the school run. That chicken tasted so moist and tender, and hadn't shrunk at all during cooking (unlike my old fan oven). Incidentally, there are lots of little mini-ovens with 2 solid rings on top on sale at the moment for students. It occurs to me that in the rare event of a steaming summer, one of those would suffice if you want to turn the Everhot off? But realistically- how many days of the year are that hot?! I'm deep in menopause country at the moment, and I'm finding it ok to stand beside it during one of my 'power surges' so it can't be that bad?
I read in the paper that recently the UK was just hours from having no gas at all. I must admit to feeling a little smug that once ' plan B' is enacted and I have some photovoltaic tiles to power 'Sid' (the kids have named the Everhot, sorry) we'll be 'alright Jack!) On the other hand...the ground didn't defrost until May this year (Fact- I have allotments lol!) and seems to be almost over, so maybe not. Will start canvassing the neighbours about a community turbine now...

Topaz63

That's useful Auntiehelen. There's been a long gap in this thread. My work on the house is in full flow. I've got Solar PV going up in late January, and the kitchen to do in Feb. I've been all round the houses looking at Aga Dual Control and the 13 amp AIMS one but have returned to Everhot as the trickle feed of electricity should work well with Solar and act as a heat store. My DSinlaw has found a nice woodburner second hand so I reckon the two together will keep running costs low in future, tho of course the up front outlay.....

dransfield

Hi, 
My wife is keen on getting an Esse or an Everhot range cooker, but I'm struggling with the fact that they're pretty much, too some extent, 'on' all the time. 
The blurb for these cookers say things like 'eco mode'. 'only £15 per week' and 'more economical than an Aga', as if that's good. 
But my electrical engineering background is telling me this is bad, for the pocket, and for the environment. 
) 'Eco mode' is still 'on 24 hrs per day' ... Whereas  'normal' cookers are simply off when they're not being used. (That's what I call 'eco mode '!)
I get that they add a bit of cosy warmth to the kitchen in Winter, and probably a chunk of Autumn and Spring, but in Summer here in South East England, it would bonkers. We would literally be letting the heat out of open windows. 
) 'only £15 pw' is £750 per year! That doubles our electricity bill just for standby mode (0.5 to 0.6Watts) (and doubles the carbon footprint of our elec consumption.)
These are expensive cookers to buy, as mentioned in this discussion... I can live with the purchase price, but has nobody noticed that after only a little over a decade of 'eco mode', you've paid the same again in electricity? And will continue to? 
) Saying its more economical than an Aga is like saying a Range Rover is more economical than a Bentley. Probably true, neither are economical and both cost a lot to run! 
What I'd really like to know from those that own them is: Can they be easily turned off when you're not using them? 
I know they take 45 minutes to heat up from cold, versus 15 minutes from 'eco', but that's okay. In the Summer, or the middle of the night, or any other time when we don't need our kitchen to be electrically heated, can they be programmed to be totally and completely 'off' ? 
Thanks
Dransfield