Fellow cooks and bakers, please help me decide between dual fuel and gas cooker!

[bondgirl77]

Help! Sorry I know this isn't strictly a recipe question but I need fellow cooks to help me decide and thought this might be the best board to find them! I had a new dual fuel cooker delivered on Friday which replaces one with a broken thermostat. However, it couldn't be fitted because I've got no isolator switch. If I want one fitted, it will cost me close to £200 on top of the cost of the cooker, delivery and fitting! OR I can return the dual fuel and get a completely gas cooker. I've only had a gas cooker once, and hated it. Much prefer to have elec oven but don't really want to pay the extra just to indulge my needs - or do I?? People who have gas ovens, do you love or hate them? I can't decide what to do!!

I grew up with a gas oven, and would never have anything else. When we moved house, we had to change our search area because a lot of the villages we were looking at originally don't have mains gas and I couldn't face cooking with an electric oven (still less an electric hob).

Best make is a Parkinson Cowan - my mum had one that lasted 34 years, and she only got rid of it because the thermostat gave out and they couldn't get a new one to fit. She was heartbroken.

i grew up with an elecric oven and hob, at school we learnt on gas. in the years since then i have owned both.imho gas cookers are at best ok, gas grills are dreadful and gas hobs are amazing, so i would keep the one you have, spend the £200 dont get something you hate that you are going to use every day.
also that £200 in 5 years will be almost nothing added to the cost of each thing you have cooked

I stick with the dual fuel one.

Personally I love the dual fuel ovens and would be tempted to pay the £200. If you don't like gas you will be stuck with it for years and it might drive you mad if you kept wishing for the duel fuel one and be stuck with second best gas one.

Love my gas cooker - oven and hob. I used the electric cooker left here for a while and then got my old oven fitted in when revamped the kitchen. I have to use my dad's electric oven and don't like it much - not as responsive to change of heat etc.

i was brought up with electric, but happy to change

Thanks everyone! I had a think about it last night and decided I will pay the £200 and get the dual fuel. It's what I'm used to and like you say yestheyareallmine over a long period of time that money will be just a few pennies a day! I did manage with a gas cooker many years ago but found it a bit too unpredictable. Wouldn't be without a gas hob though!