Cooking for one

iammumtoone

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am always concerned that the electrical system is overloading, then overheating, then catching fire ... maybe visibly, or maybe behind a wall where I can't see it!

In the kitchen I have two sockets side by side, in the same plastic housing. One has the 700 watt microwave, the other has the ~1kW toaster oven. I daren't even have both turned on at the same time.

I'm not keen on having the kettle on at the same time as the toaster either (adjacent sockets).

A single socket will take 13amp or 3KW (i know this as I also check what I have plugged in, I have a few extension leads so like to keep a check on what power they are pulling )

What I am not sure of is, if a double socket in the same plastic housing counts as 2x3KW or just 3KW. I always work on the safe side that it is 3KW total.

Nelski

Fancy a ploughman's type thing for my dinner tonight so have taken out some mini pork pies, sliced ham and cheese that I will have with crusty bread (well freezer burnt baguette anyway) apple, salad bits and pickles ...one of my favourite meals which to be fair I don't think would go down well on a Saturday night if it was more than me I was catering for :D I may even have a glass of cider with it :T

I knew there were some plus sides of cooking for one :j:j

PasturesNew

iammumtoone wrote: »

A single socket will take 13amp or 3000KW (i know this as I also check what I have plugged in, I have a few extension leads so like to keep a check on what power they are pulling )

What I am not sure of is, if a double socket in the same plastic housing counts as 2x3KW or just 3KW. I always work on the safe side that it is 3KW total.

Cheers, that's a start. I didn't know that much.

I went for a new build house as it's got the most safety features etc, so I'm at least not having to deal with a 100 year old house that has a multitude of "bodges, work arounds, DIY and make it up" anywhere

Plugging anything in and turning it on's still a hair-raising event

The brand new mini oven, 1kW max, even when turned on for just 20 minutes seems to make the plug a bit warm... and then I worry/wonder "how warm is warm... is that normal.... is that hot .... " so I try to restrict using it to 20 minutes max.... I can cook many things in there in under 20 minutes.

I also worry that the mini oven and the microwave ventilate to the rear - directly onto the plug sockets .... which I wish they wouldn't. So I have to use both pulled right to the front edge of the worktop ... which is another level of worry

PasturesNew

Nelski wrote: »

ploughman's type... mini pork pies, sliced ham and cheese ...crusty bread .... apple, salad bits and pickles ....glass of cider .
I knew there were some plus sides of cooking for one

Please identify the "cooking" bits there

Nelski

PasturesNew wrote: »

Please identify the "cooking" bits there

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Exactly and that why it is a perfect Saturday night meal for when I just CBA ...I did cook the ham a few months ago and someone kind cooked the pork pies for me

In my my defence I am catering for 4 tomorrow for lunch which will involve lots of cooking :o

PasturesNew

Nelski wrote: »

I am catering for 4 tomorrow for lunch

I've never cooked for anybody. It won't happen either.

Nelski

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never cooked for anybody. It won't happen either.

Never?? Not even some of your signature beans on toast??

I have a lovely pie recipe ready for you when you visit

PasturesNew

Nelski wrote: »

Never?? Not even some of your signature beans on toast??

I have a lovely pie recipe ready for you when you visit

It's complicated, but my family used to joke that my house was "Bleak House". There's rarely anything here, there's insufficient furniture, there's always things that can't be touched as they'll break/fall off the wall ... there's no milk, there's no food in the fridge and usually there's no heating on. There's no entertainment, there's no table/chairs or even any glasses.

Most of the lightbulbs are missing too, so little lighting.

In the main, people prefer to invite me to theirs, where they have food, heating, furniture, lighting, entertainment, drinks and comfort

When I first moved in here somebody from MSE came over for 2 days to stay ... brought her own sleeping bag to doss on the floor of the spare bedroom - and I have one folding garden chair and a garden lounger we used to sit on. She brought me some curtains that "nearly fitted" as I had just strung up a couple of bath towels for the first few days. I've since bought curtains "that fit", only they were a couple of inches long (so I've used hairgrips to turn them up a bit) and it appears that the curtain pole can't be up right as they're 1" longer on the right hand side of the room ... and the curtain pole's got no end bits to stop them falling off if you're not careful.

My patio door nets are ... Heath Robinson by design ... so don't open any windows or that whole lot'll fall down on your head

Farway

iammumtoone wrote: »

A single socket will take 13amp or 3000KW (i know this as I also check what I have plugged in, I have a few extension leads so like to keep a check on what power they are pulling )

What I am not sure of is, if a double socket in the same plastic housing counts as 2x3KW or just 3KW. I always work on the safe side that it is 3KW total.

My bold, you're typo I hope, 3000Kw is 3MW, which is sort of what a factory will use. I think you mean 3KW, and even 3Kw is pushing a plug or socket, 2 KW is about right, which is a two bar electric fire

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

My bold, you're typo I hope, 3000Kw is 3MW, which is sort of what a factory will use. I think you mean 3KW, and even 3Kw is pushing a plug or socket, 2 KW is about right, which is a two bar electric fire

You are right to correct such a massive 'error'.
I, at least, understood what he meant, but others might not have.

Oh noes .... so even 3kW's not right ... just 2kW.

It's not easy is it, getting stuff right!