My oven just blew up

I agree with shysal about the halogen oven. After reading lots of opinions on GN I bought one about six months ago and am very enthusiastic about it. I use it several times a week and just realised that the only time the main fan oven has been used since its arrival, was for Christmas dinner.
It's quick and efficient and I wouldn't be without it.
I always thought it was a bit wasteful to heat the main oven for GC's fish fingers but the halogen oven is ideal for their small meals or for my individual portions.

I have a combination microwave which I use all the time. My main oven is hardly used and is only the 3rd one I have had in 45 years. The first was an old 2nd hand one, the 2nd an eye-level built in one which still worked but did not fit into the new kitchen 11 years ago and my present similar one. I am still using the ceramic hob which I got with the 2nd oven (had it put into the new kitchen) and it is still working 40 years later.

Rubylady respect for counting down the half stones!

No need to apologise! Good to not have an oven to clean too.....trying to motivate myself to do mine after son cooked goose for Christmas dinner !

Sorry loopyloo and shysal, I was only kidding. I don't have a cooker connected but on top of the disconnected hobs I have a big electric pan which plugs in and I do stir fry or some meat or a breakfast and I do have a microwave too which cooks micro veg so I can get a decent meal done for us both. I have seen the halogen ovens though and wondered how they are to use as this is quite restricting and I thought of one of those too or a steamer for fish/meat and veg. The good side of not having an oven is that we can't now do cakes or pizza so only treat ourselves now when some weight has come off, the next half stone mark. Sorry again .

Stansgran, my friend, who recently had a new kitchen, has the Neff oven with the door that slides out of the way. It's a great idea and I would love to have one myself - however, it's only 8 years since I had my kitchen refurbished, with a Bosch oven.

Not in a sale granny-a. Just a really good online price. From Appliances Direct.

Ooh pompa now you've let the cat out of the bag!!

May I suggest that you try a Remoska or a halogen oven, Ruby. They stand on the worktop and will cook anything you could do in an oven, plenty of room in it for the two of you.

Oh rubylady! There must be a way of getting it connected for less than that, perhaps your local CAB may be able to advise you?

I haven't got any cooker. I brought my gas cooker but housing association won't connect it for me and it will cost over £150 to pay someone so it's a no go. I live on Pot Noodles

jingle glad your safe, and lona your a dark horse... massage

Was the new cooker on sale jingl? Good timing if so.

My current cooker is a range master and has been going strong for nearly twenty years. One of the ceramic side plates was broken (the lodger did it) about two years ago, but as the ovens and other hob rings all continue to work very well I have no chance of getting a new cooker. All of the numbers/symbols have long since been cleaned off so I always have to guess when attempting to cook at a certain temperature.

I have had few cookers in 56 years of cooking, no more than 4 I think and when the element blew on the last one the oven bottom was full of ceramic objects that looked like pieces of macaroni. My current fan oven (10 years old) recently failed and the simple element surrounds the fan and was replaced in minutes.I can certainly recommend eye level ovens as we get older and less able to bend and lift.(Oh woe is me).

How do folk make cookers last so long? I`ve been married for 51 and a half years, and although my present cooker was bought about 5 years ago, it`s my 10th!

Enjoy your new cooker jing Mine is pretty ancient but I fancy an eye level one next time - easier on the back as I get more ancient. The trouble is that means new kitchen cupboards and will cost so keeping to the old cooker for a while.

Good heavens, ae you doing massages now, Lona?

No wonder, 35 years is way past a cookers sell by date, you certainly need a new one. Got the massage Lona !.

All the modern bells and whistle will make your life much easier.

I don't need a flash cooker. I'm a microwave girl at heart. But a fan oven will be quite exciting.

The family are now telling me that my bun tin is no way ceramic! I bought it from a market stall along with my ceramic frying pan - which has started sticking! I wonder......

Stansgran my kitchen is what you would politely call cosy, so no space for a Neff. Have settled for a vey sensible Hotpoint, ceramic "rings", and two ovens, the top one having the grill in it.

John Lewis quoted a delivery of 2 - 6 weeks, so came home and looked online. It's now being delivered on Wednesday, and hundred pounds cheaper than JL!!!

Been hoping DH's habit of sitting on work surface would break it.....so could have new kitchen....obviously too well made.
When bought cooker couple of years ago I thought I'd measured space accurately but was slightly too wide for space - unfortunately unit could be moved so that opportunity didn't materialise either

Was that like the ones they had on Bake Off, Stansgran? I really, really would like it; don't need it, but....

Please please get the Neff one where the oven door slides out of the way. I want it myself but I'm waiting for someone to say it's fabulous. I don't know anyone who has one