Crap cookers

[godinman]

Put pizzas an stuff on foil and fold the foil over the edges.

I haven't got a clue if this will work or not but it sounds good to me.

 

[Xelene]

Just leave it a while to heat up, pizza should be cooked in a hot oven.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

wierd surely the fan should mean the temprature should remain even all over the oven with no heat spots and the edges shouldnt be cooking first

Not true.
In the lab we did COT tests (Centre Of Oven) and a fan didn't make that much difference.
We would then move the heat sensor around inside the oven and there were major differences in temp.

 

[Jonny69]

I love our cooker. We picked up a Rangemaster Kitchener 90 which has got hob and electric ovens. Everything cooks evenly, there is loads of space and there is plenty of control to get everything right. Its not a high end cooker by any means but it does the job well. It cost us a grand which is probaly a little more than some are paying judging from comments thus far.

Sounds like a beast. Want

I have an ancient cheap oven. It's a non fan electric oven, the light hasn't worked on it for years, it's looking decidedly tatty and the handle is discoloured from the heat. But I refuse to replace it until it actually breaks as it cooks food evenly and consistently. If you follow recipe cooking temperatures and timings the food always comes out just right.

The light on our old one mysteriously came back on one day when I was baking bread and I was dead pleased. Then I looked in and the whole back of the oven was lit up, shortly followed by a very loud explosion

I reckon the whole back of the oven was glowing red hot just before it went bang. No wonder the bread tasted so good that day

The only decent thing in my house is the oven, and I thought Canon were meant to be crap

I thought Canon only made cameras and photocopiers?

 

[zipp0r]

i cook everything at about 175c in a fan oven. if i go above that, say 190/200c stuff burns before its cooked inside...
less heat, longer cooking = more flavour, so yeh turn it down MORE.

 

[Jonny69]

Well tonights dinner is ruined. "Slow" cooked some lamb at 150 degrees for a few hours. It's annihilated. What a waste :/

 

[Skidder]

I love our cooker. We picked up a Rangemaster Kitchener 90 which has got hob and electric ovens. Everything cooks evenly, there is loads of space and there is plenty of control to get everything right. Its not a high end cooker by any means but it does the job well. It cost us a grand which is probaly a little more than some are paying judging from comments thus far.

I have a rangemaster Elan 90 - also couldn't be happier with it. Control is really precise and nice to have two independent ovens as it helps with many meals. I do all normal cooking and it's great, my wife does the baking and rates it for that too.

 

[DBT85]

I have a rangemaster Elan 90 - also couldn't be happier with it. Control is really precise and nice to have two independent ovens as it helps with many meals. I do all normal cooking and it's great, my wife does the baking and rates it for that too.

The wife also does baking in ours and everything is always perfect. Currently she's workign on making shortbread for xmas. The first try needed a few more minutes. On the down side i have to eat all the experiments

 

[Maccapacca]

I picked up an AEG competence for £50 from ebay last year, damn thing is the nuts, pizza baking feature so it cooks from below, fan and conventional, rotitherm, defrost and slow heat from below for casseroles, thats just the bottom bit, grill is awesome for steaks and the best bit is whack it up to max for an hour and it cleans itself and leaves some ash on the bottom.

 

[vicisthebest]

We rent too.

Ours is rubbish too.

We have a TINY Indesit oven, gas, not a fan oven. It only has one shelf in it, and it's quite narrow so can only fit one tray/oven dish on the shelf. Not good when you want to cook a roast with say, roast potatoes or stuffing which need to be in oven at the same time. Or make a pizza and some wedges to go with.

The flame is at the bottom and the oven gets INSANELY hot at the bottom so if we have the shelf too far down whatever we're cooking gets burnt to a cinder on the bottom.

Eating really burned underside of pizza makes me

 

[Pestilence]

Buy your own oven - notify the landlord and shove his POS in the garage until you move out.

Then you've even got a good cooker to take with you!

 

[Glaucus]

Buy your own oven - notify the landlord and shove his POS in the garage until you move out.

Then you've even got a good cooker to take with you!

Thought about this.

can you just stick a normal plug on an electric oven, or does it need to be on a beefed up mains loop.

Otherwise replacing a gas oven means corgi registered, checks and all that rubbish.

 

[JBuk]

Thought about this.

can you just stick a normal plug on an electric oven, or does it need to be on a beefed up mains loop.
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Needs to have its own high amp supply from the consumer unit afaik

 

[Glaucus]

Thought as much.

 

[Street]

My house was refitted inside before I bought it, only problem was that things like the cooker were done on the cheap! I don't even have a fan oven in my house at the moment.. It always seems to smoke and burn things and takes ages to get up to temperature. I've bought some nice Anolon pans and IO Shen knives, the gas hob is decent enough, its just my crappy oven that lets my kitchen down! Its one of the next things on my list of things to buy, after I get my driveway finished..