Oil fired heating & cooking

[gregssausageroll]

For those who have OFH what do you have as a hob? We will be re-doing the kitchen and I hate the look of electric hobs so thinking either ceramic or induction or drilling through the wall and using calor gas canisters and having a gas hob.

We're not used to OFH so any tips you can give/or would love to change about your set up would be great.

There is no way of us installing gas as it isn't in the village at all.

We have a oil fired aga-tyoe thing. Love it - apart from the couple of hot weeks every year when the kitchen gets boiling if we want hot water.

cooker with flat hobs (is that ceramic?) and electric oven

We have electric range with gas hob and drilled through the wall like you, we sold our aga to expensive to run.

We have had a calor gas stove installed about a year ago and are really pleased with it - works exactly like 'normal' gas and was no hassle at all to install. We have two bottles of gas with a valve-thing which switches between the two automatically when one runs out - however, we turn the second bottle off so we know when one has run out, having been caught out this way once already!

I do like the idea of an induction hob though, and if I hadn't been trying to keep the kitchen on-budget, I might have gone for one.

We have ceramic hob which I hate because when things boil over the stuff goes everywhere. All over the hob (which then shuts down until you dry it) and the worktop.

I liced abroad once and had a calor gas stove and it was fine - the only thing you need to be careful of is the bottle running out without warning but sure its better organised these days. Its a bit of a pain changing bottles but not as irritating as constantly having to check stuff boiling to make sure it doesn't boil over.