Gas oven v Electric

twopenny

As said the gas oven should take 20mins at most so something is wrong. Worth getting it looked at before shelling out loads for oven and installation.

I've always cooked gas. The advantage is the different temperature levels means you can cook a whole meal and desert in the oven while you sit in the garden. Or cook different cakes on different levels. It's one heck of a lot cheaper to run. It also cooks moister food.

The electric warms in about 10 mins and cooks fractionally quicker but you only have the one temperature throughout. So batch baking a whole lot of the same thing is possibile. You can use a timer on electric ovens. You can on gas but they are rare as hens teeth

The downside I've found to my new house with the electric oven is the cost - can't cook a whole meal (at different temps) so need hob and oven - mine has a fan to cool the controls etc which is noisy - cakes and meat tend to be drier.

Norman_Castle

My 1950s gas cooker has just cooked a pie from frozen in about 45 minutes, no idea about oven chips as I never ever cook them. I'd suspect your thermostat is stuck on a low setting.

Are gas ovens cheaper to run? Electric ovens can switch off when at the right temperature but gas ovens need to keep burning and allow heat to escape.

Jonesya

Norman_Castle said:

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Are gas ovens cheaper to run? Electric ovens can switch off when at the right temperature but gas ovens need to keep burning and allow heat to escape.

Gas ovens have thermostats which turn the burner down to a minimum setting once the temperature is reached, they don't run at constant output. Also gas is around a quarter the cost of electricity, so the running cost is a fraction of electric.