Recipes/meals i can cook without using a hob?

Beki

After seeing the thread about cooking without an oven... i have the opposite problem - i have no hob at the moment! It was a gas hob (calor), as part of a dual fuel range, and something's gone wrong with the pressure in it, and when the gas is switched on, there's so much pressure than you can't turn the gas off the rings by the knobs on the cooker - v scary! :eek: so we're trying to manage without a hob at the moment as there's no way we can afford another cooker (even on ebay the cheapest i've seen is £80+ ).

Does anyone have any ideas for meals i can cook just using the oven? I also have a prehistoric slow cooker lol, which does still work thank goodness, an electric steamer that hasn't seen the light of day for about a year, and a microwave. The thing i can't get my head round is doing without frying off things like onions and mushrooms for a lasagne etc? Unless i did things like that in the slow cooker, as i suppose they don't really need frying off first do they?!

I'm hoping you all have some good advice for me as i'm practically tearing my hair out at the moment :rotfl:

xxxx

vanoonoo

you can defo soften onions and mushrooms in the microwave. You might want to use a spoon of water rather than oil or butter tho.

if you're absolutely desperate you can buy single ring electric or conduction hobs or perhaps a camping stove? we've got a camp stove that takes little cannisters of gas that we got from go outdoors last summer and when we have the last stages of the kitchen ripped out before the refit I intend to use that when needed

I'd defo get the steamer out and give it a clean and a test as I am sure that will be useful.

rice is pretty easy to cook in the microwave but i've never been that successful with dried pasta being nuked!

Beki

thank you will def get the steamer out as i can do a lot of the veg in that. i might even try to cook some rice in it?! xx

McKneff

I havent had a hob for years. I have what you have and the only reason I would ever use a hob for is for frying eggs. But fried eggs are the one thing I can do with out really, just have scrambled from the microwave.

Everything gets done in the steamer (all veg for 1 meal in one instead of having 3 or 4 rings on, much cheaper) a microwave for just warming things really, although I have cooked carrots/peas in there, a small George Forman for sausages, burgers, etc.
Oh, I do have an electric egg boiler which cost me a tenner and is worth its weight in gold. Again, much cheaper than boiling in a pan on the hob.

The best thing is that I have more worktop space in my kitchen

Beki

oooh a george foreman! i think i've got a small one lurking in the back of a cupboard somewhere. or it might be in the shed.. unless we charity-shopped it, but i don't think so

thank you! xx

freezspirit

Could you use something like this for the short term
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4235314/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CKitchen+and+laundry%7C14418476/c_2/2%7C14418476%7CSmall+kitchen+appliances%7C14418587/c_3/3%7Ccat_14418587%7CSlow+cookers+and+ovens%7C14418592.htm

Beki

that looks ideal i just haven't got a spare £25 right now

Skint_yet_Again

Most things cooked on the hob can be done in the microwave or oven. What sort of things do you normally cook on your hob ?

Owain_Moneysaver

Beki wrote: »

After seeing the thread about cooking without an oven... i have the opposite problem - i have no hob at the moment! It was a gas hob (calor), as part of a dual fuel range, and something's gone wrong with the pressure in it, and when the gas is switched on, there's so much pressure than you can't turn the gas off the rings by the knobs on the cooker - v scary!

Sounds more like a problem with the regulator on the gas supply than with the hob itself.

If you have cylinders then a replacement regulator is about £6-12 from caravan etc places.
http://www.gasproducts.co.uk/acatalog/Low_Pressure_LPG_Propane_Gas_Regulators.html
If you have a bulk tank then the regulator is probably maintained as part of your tank rental.

Please check your cylinder/supply instructions to find whether changing the regulator is a user task or requires a registered Gas Safe fitter with an LPG ticket.

[Deleted User]

When I moved into my current home there was no gas supply and it took them an age to connect us! Veggies often have instructions to steam in the microwave, pasta and rice can also be cooked this way.

Beki

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Sounds more like a problem with the regulator on the gas supply than with the hob itself.

If you have cylinders then a replacement regulator is about £6-12 from caravan etc places.
http://www.gasproducts.co.uk/acatalog/Low_Pressure_LPG_Propane_Gas_Regulators.html
If you have a bulk tank then the regulator is probably maintained as part of your tank rental.

Please check your cylinder/supply instructions to find whether changing the regulator is a user task or requires a registered Gas Safe fitter with an LPG ticket.

i just wanted to say a big thank you to you! i mentioned this to OH and he went outside, and disconnected everything and also at the back of the cooker. he reconnected it all and it's working perfectly! :T:T:T

it first stopped working after all the bad snow we had in february, the pipe froze, and after it had all melted and the pipe had defrosted, that's when we had the problem with the gas pressure coming through too fast.

Oh reckons it might have just been a build up where the gas in the pipe had expanded after the 'big thaw' and now it's all been dismantled and put back together it's fine! i now have a working hob again!!! yay! :T