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Ovens That Never Turn Off
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My cousin was telling me about his friend's old fashioned Oven which never switched off, after you first turn it on it takes like 3 days to reach it's cooking tempreture but once it's at optimum power it just needs a little fuel to maintain it - like £1 a day's worth and can even heat the water for your baths as well.
To me this sounds like broadband (as oposed to dial up), ... always on ..use as much as you want.
Imagine you want just 1 jacket potatoe in a normal oven you'd probabaly think - oh I'm wasting so much energy - but if the thing is alway on anway you might as well just chuck in a potatoe .. sounds kinda heavenly to me .. anyone got one of these types of ovens?
Only downside is I can imagine people would eat a lot more.
To me this sounds like broadband (as oposed to dial up), ... always on ..use as much as you want.
Imagine you want just 1 jacket potatoe in a normal oven you'd probabaly think - oh I'm wasting so much energy - but if the thing is alway on anway you might as well just chuck in a potatoe .. sounds kinda heavenly to me .. anyone got one of these types of ovens?
Only downside is I can imagine people would eat a lot more.
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Because they work on stored heat you have to be careful of the heating demands you place upon them - you can't boil potatoes on the hotplate, you have to do them in the simmering oven....
but they're great for traditional english fare such as stews and hotpots.
Why does she hate it?
I hear there is a waitinglist for good condition 2nd hand units - seeing as brand new these things start at £5,000
Hot water even during power cuts though. :yes:
And my stepmum has TWO in her holiday home.
Yeeaahh to cook my pasta n sauces on that's totally what gas hobs were invented for
and noodles..............
The point was to hear people's personal opinions of these since I have no experience of one of these. And also I figured these kind of cookers may be more popular up north then compared to London.
I hadn't even heard of one of these until a few days ago and the whole concept of an always on oven was intriging .. also I wanted to kow if food really did taste better cos I kow for sure jacket potatoes in the Microwave are nothing like the ones in a standard oven!!
That was the LONGEST 30 seconds ever
It isn't just an oven, it's our central heating aswell. That's why the bastards are always on during the winter. In the summer our doesn't get used as much.
It depends on if you count rural southern areas as "up north" or not.
I've seen pictures of ones before but I never knew they were always on!!!
I'd be pigging out so much if I had one of those, pizza's every night!!! :thumb:
Jacket Potatoes, fresh homemade Bread, cookies,
They're no always on though.
During the summer when you don't need your central heating they'e off.
How do you cook on them if they're turned off?
Aint the cooking bit and heating bit seperate enough that you can turn one on and the other off?
You don't 'turn' them off, you just stop putting fuel in them.
Not really. There are various way to control the heat of both the oven and central heating but really when ones on so is the other.
In the summer there's no point in having the central heating on so firing it up just for cooking is a bit of a work up, so generally we don't.
We of course have a solid fuel one. With the oil and gas ones the oven an central heating are a lot more seperate. Same goes for Rayburns which are similar to Agas.
Does the thought of wasting energy actually stop you from cooking what you want to usually? I find that a bit weird... I mean if I wanted to pop a pizza in the oven, I'd never think oh no I can't, I'll be wasting electricity...
It does if you have to pay the bill for the electricity and gas
If I'm gonna switch the oven on I'm not going to just put one small item in it just for myself ... I'll make sure I'm putting in several items
Of course at uni we had our bills included in the rent so that was less of a worry but if you're paying the bills at home then who wouldn't think about it.
Skive; How much do you pay for your wood, I recently got a cubic metre of good hardwood (largely oak) for £40 delivered.