The chuffing cooker door has broken - 6 days before Christmas !!

Slinky

I know your pain. Our 6 month old oven broke down on new year's eve about 7 years ago when I was just about to stick a leg of lamb in to cook for my MIL. Ended up scrabbling about for stuff in the freezer I could cook on the hob.

Hope you get it sorted.

Lara44

Pot roasted turkey??

lostinrates

In America I understand deep frying the turkey in a vat in the garden is increasingly popular. I'm not sure we live close enough to A &E for me to fancy trying that any time soon.

OP seriously, if you can't use the over you can't. Can you aford some beautiful steaks that you can do on the hob and freeze the bird?

easy

Lara44 wrote: »

Pot roasted turkey??

Well, I pot roast a chicken in the slow cooker now and then, but I'm going to need a really big pot for a 13lb turkey !!

easy

lostinrates wrote: »

In America I understand deep frying the turkey in a vat in the garden is increasingly popular. I'm not sure we live close enough to A &E for me to fancy trying that any time soon.

OP seriously, if you can't use the over you can't. Can you aford some beautiful steaks that you can do on the hob and freeze the bird?

Yep, I could do something else, but I'll be disappointed to freeze the premium turkey we buy fresh from the butchers. Plus, we would have to eat some interesting combinations to make room in the freezer for it!.

I checked this lunchtime, Indesit say that my spare parts were dispatched yesterday, they are tracked as being on the couriers van. Not here yet (half past 5 in the evening) tho' !

lostinrates

easy wrote: »

Yep, I could do something else, but I'll be disappointed to freeze the premium turkey we buy fresh from the butchers. Plus, we would have to eat some interesting combinations to make room in the freezer for it!.

I checked this lunchtime, Indesit say that my spare parts were dispatched yesterday, they are tracked as being on the couriers van. Not here yet (half past 5 in the evening) tho' !

we buy ''premium'' meat direct from farmers, and put our own meat in the freezer. Its nice to have fresh meat but honestly its better to have good meat frozen than any old meat fresh. My meat defrosts excellently and still tastes sumptious when cooked. I was dubious about this with poultry especially at the beginning and can honestly say its never been an issue: and we are hyper food critical.

hopefully yur parts will come, but please don't be heartbroken if you have to be ''alternative ''

rdwarr

If you can't get it fixed (I hope they are the right bits!) then do you have a neighbour who would let you cook the turkey in their oven, perhaps the evening before or after they have eaten?

Errata

If the parts are the wrong ones, and I do hope they won't be, chop the thing up, cook it in bits in the microwave and brown them under the grill.

easy

rdwarr wrote: »

If you can't get it fixed (I hope they are the right bits!) then do you have a neighbour who would let you cook the turkey in their oven, perhaps the evening before or after they have eaten?

My cleaning lady has said they'll be at her sisters on christmas day, so we can go and cook it in her oven if needs must. So watch out for DH driving 3/4 of a mile with a hot cooked turkey in the car passenger footwell :rotfl:



Still no sign of the couriers van with my spare parts

dibuzz

I hope the parts turn up and they are the right ones.
Why do these things always happen at Christmas? 2 years ago our cooker was declared unsafe a week before Christmas but luckily Currys could deliver one quickly and my mum hadn't bought me a present so I got it for my Christmas and birthday.
I hated the old one as ex insisted we have gas even though I had always used electric and it was a cheap horrible thing that sadly lasted for 22 flipping years :mad:
We had to stick with gas as our kitchen doesn't have the right electric wiring but at least I could pick a nice one.
Last year the heating broke down at 8pm on Christmas Eve in that awful freezing weather we had. It was too late to go and buy any heaters so we had to sit round the hairdryer and a load of tea lights :rotfl:.It's funny now but wasn't at the time.