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Is the oven supposed to look like this?

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Usernameinuseffs · 12/08/2018 21:43

I am probably being stupid but my oven at home is electric and I don't know if gas is different.
We are currently on hols in a self catering caravan on a well known holiday park. This is the oven. We can't self cater as nothing is bloody cooking! We turned the oven right up but heat is just escaping. The seal doesn't go all the way round but when I called the maintenance they said firstly that it was supposed to be like that, it's only when I said my sausages had been in over an hour on gas 7 and were still anaemic that he said he would get someone to check it tomorrow. The park is full so we can't move.

Is the oven supposed to look like this?
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Gizlotsmum · 12/08/2018 21:45

Stupid question but had it actually lit?

9amTrain · 12/08/2018 21:46

Why doesn't the seal go all the way around? Is it meant to?

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Usernameinuseffs · 12/08/2018 21:48

Yep I kept checking. The sausages sort of got a tint of colour after 2 hours but I ended up binning them and getting something else. You could see through a gap into the oven when it was on which is where there's no seal and I assume the heat is escaping.

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LIZS · 12/08/2018 21:48

Have you googled the model. It should have a serial number on the label on rhs. Was the oven hot?

ohtheholidays · 12/08/2018 21:48

The oven looks fine apart from the fact that it's not lit.

The seal looks fine to me,the top part not having a seal isn't that where the oven door connects to close?

We used to own a caravan and cooking with gas was a pain in the arse,we have a fan oven at home and it's so much better.

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Usernameinuseffs · 12/08/2018 21:49

I think it is meant to and it needs replacing. I just wanted to know if it actually wasn't meant to before I moan at them again. We have paid £1300 for a week for 5 of us and I expect to be able to use the oven!

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Mumof4under10 · 12/08/2018 21:49

Just been and opened my top oven and main oven on gas cooker. That doesn't have a seal all the way around. Where the gap is at to the top of that seal mine is at the bottom. Doesn't know if that helps something I've never noticed before.

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Usernameinuseffs · 12/08/2018 21:49

It doesn't close. Just sits on the seal.

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tectonicplates · 12/08/2018 21:52

Sorry if this is a stupid question OP, but when you turned the oven on, did you also press an ignition button of some kind, in order to get it to light? Otherwise, if it hasn't lit, then you're just releasing unused gas into the room.

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Usernameinuseffs · 12/08/2018 21:52

I've just opened it to try and show you what I mean but it's real hard in a photo. It lifts up to shut, doesn't click in or anything. And it sort of sits on the seal so there's a gap there. Or it could just be a bit of a rubbish oven that doesn't give off enough heat.

Is the oven supposed to look like this?
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Bezm · 12/08/2018 21:52

Does the oven actually feel hot when you put your hand in it? What number have yo got it on?

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Usernameinuseffs · 12/08/2018 21:53

Yes I definitely lit it! I've got a gas hob at home so I know it needs to be ignited. It was just really rubbish.

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Usernameinuseffs · 12/08/2018 21:54

It was warm. It was on 7. Is that not hot enough, I always hear people say gas mark 6 so I put it on 7 thinking that would be hotter. God you wouldn't guess I'm a grown woman in her 30's and generally a good cook Grin

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SheepyFun · 12/08/2018 21:58

Gas ovens can't seal completely - they need airflow, or the flame will go out once all the oxygen inside has been burnt. Ours has a grill across the back and a gap at the bottom. However it cooks sausages in 20 minutes at gas mark 6, so it sounds like something on yours is broken - either the seal or the thermostat. Neither of which is good.

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Usernameinuseffs · 12/08/2018 22:01

Thank you, I will get them out again tomorrow. They have been rather useless with the other little issues like the forever leaky shower in the ensuite, which is 'just a leaky shower, nothing we can do ' the baked on grease on the Pyrex dishes 'should have come this morning, could have got housekeeping ' well I didn't bloody use them this morning, and I'm only using them now as it's too rainy for the BBQ that was planned! So I don't hold out much hope considering it does light.

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MilkybarGrownup · 12/08/2018 22:55

We stay at a caravan park quite often with the outlaws kill me please. Last time we went they asked me to bring two meals I regularly make at home which they like. So I was the one catering for two nights. Fine. I love cooking and I'm a feeder. Unfortunately, despite my meals being fully cooked at home, I was unable to heat them up properly because the cooker provided in the caravan was beyond shit. It took HOURS to prepare dinner for us all and the bloody things were pre-cooked! I ended up microwaving then individually. Caravan coolers are dire.

MilkybarGrownup · 12/08/2018 22:56

**cookers. Although coolers isn't far wrong.....

BarbaraofSevillle · 12/08/2018 23:23

Google the instructions to check the numbering. I would have thought 'gas mark 7' was pretty standard, and hot, so sausages should be burnt well before 2 hours - you didn't have just the grill not the oven on did you (if it's a combined oven/grill that is)?

It's a very long time since I used a gas oven, so can't remember, but do they have a light that goes out when it gets to temperature and is this coming on/off?

We struggled with the hob in a holiday apartment in Mallorca - there was a cryptic note in Spanish that we eventually worked out was indicating that 9 on the hob was simmer and 1 was high heat - we were trying to fry bacon and eggs on settings 7/8/9 and getting nowhere.

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Usernameinuseffs · 13/08/2018 06:42

We thought about using the grill, but the grill pan was too small and so couldn't. It was definitely the oven on, the flames were going and they weren't little simmery ones. I am glad it's not just me who has failed to cook stuff properly in these ridiculous things, I think we will be making use of the local Frankie and Bennys and the chippie for the rest of the week!

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vandrew4 · 13/08/2018 07:32

the grill pan was too small for sausages? What kind of mammoth sausages are we talking about!

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Usernameinuseffs · 13/08/2018 07:49

Haha it was the actual pan. It sat in the bottom and didn't touch the sides so I couldn't slide it under the grill. See! Plus the service sticker says it hasn't been serviced since 2011. I'm hoping that's wrong!

Is the oven supposed to look like this?
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Neshoma · 13/08/2018 08:20

That oven is like mine. The bottom bigger oven is a fan oven and the top a conventional oven and grill.

Are you sure you are not just using the grill.

Also, when yo turn the oven do the lights not come on?

Neshoma · 13/08/2018 08:22

sorry, convection oven

Labradoodliedoodoo · 13/08/2018 08:24

Keep an receipts when you eat out

ThePricklySheep · 13/08/2018 08:26

Wounding you just move a rack from the oven to the grill to put the grill pan on?