Does anything make a gas cooker easier to clean? Which cooker should I buy?

[KatyMac]

I am buying a new one

My oven died in my old one

It is 6.5 yr old and I use it hard

I am buying an LPG hob & an electric (double) oven

Chain is to attach gas bottles to the wall outside so no-one can knick them

Halogen is a form of electric hob and is faster than normal electric but I still prefer the greater control of gas. I think I said earlier, chefs on TV always cook on gas - though presumably they have someone to clean the cooker for them.

£450 to install a cooker??? Maybe induction is the way to go.

Make sure that the hob top isn't porcelain-enamel as it tarnishes/ dulls really easily which looks awful.

£30 a bottle (you need 2)
£50 to fill the bottles (each)
£50 to but the bits of pipe
£65 for a changeover valve (so you don't have to go outside to change from one bottle to the other
£180 labour to put it all together

I was astouded

It's over 10yrs since we had our LPG cooker installed but I'm sure it was nowhere near the price of the blummin appliance itself.

We also have lpg here in Nigeria - it ran out this evening as I was cooking, lol. The gas here is awful, it leaves great big sooty marks all over the pans.

I'm now rethinking having induction as at least with gas you have an alternate source of warmth, should there be a powercut.

Ah you need a changeover valve

I have a wood burning stove so I will be fine in a power cut - that pricing is bizarre isn't it

No such thing as a changeover valve to be had in Nigeria, hehe! Dh has to go onto the balcony and do lots of banging and clunking and swearing. We have one at home, though. My main reason to get rid of gas is because we live on a sloping site and it's a PITA getting the bottles round the back. A woodburner is my ambition.

Aw - I am on my second

Apparently MN has decided that I should buy a new oven element & it it myself rather than buy new cooker

Better get cracking then. MN has spoken.

It is spotless & fixed