Gas cooker

[claymore]

I'm planning to replace the cooker this winter. We currently have 2 gas hobs, a grill and an oven
Whilst size obviously matters in terms of the aperture that it has to go into - do any of you have recommendations of types I could be looking at with the spec outlined above?
Ta

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[Joe_Cole]

I got an "Eno" hob this year and its fine. Not one of the main makes in UK but so what. Try Compass for details.

Joe

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[CaptainCava]

I'm doing the same thing this winter. Same spec as yours so I would be interested in anyones suggestions too. So far, all I've found is a Plastimo one that seems to be the right size & spec. It's on their website and it's called 17462 - Neptune 2000 coocker (I think they mean cooker)

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[zefender]

There a good list of whats available

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.calormarineshop.co.uk/acatalog/Marine_Cookers.html>here</A>

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[Cotillion]

My brother in law has a Plastimo on his Moody. He reckons the oven is only good enough for warming plates. But then again he loves his in mast furling main so what does he know?

kim

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[doug748]

I fitted a Spinflo Nelson a few years ago and am very pleased with it. It has also come out very well in a couple of recent magazine tests. Brian

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[CaptainCava]

excellent!
thx

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[CaptainCava]

Mine is also on a Moody (376) and it sounds just as naff. It takes about an hour to warm up a few pasties! It's 16 years old now. I suppose they must have been OK when Moody fitted them, but it certainly isn't now.

The advice I've had so far is that it isn't worth fitting new burners etc as you might end up paying nearly as much as a new cooker, especially if the (Corgi) fitter has any problems.

How old is your brother in law's and did it work when it was new?

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[sailorman]

Hi
i have the SMEV 4 burner + grille + oven its now 6 seasons old & still looks new
it is regularly used most week ends.
cant really fault it apart from being 4 burner there close to gether but my reasoning was that if one went u/s u have 3 others ( 10 green bottles springs to mind)

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[claymore]

Ours is like that - I seem to remember it was quite good for baked spuds around 5 years ago but as you say - it only just warms plates now.
I took the jet thingy out and ran a drill bit through each of the holes and then wire brushed it and stuck an air line up it but it didn't seem to make a lot of difference and it doesn't have a flame failure device so I think its time we parted.

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[ShipsWoofy]

Will always recommend the Nelson Spinflow. One of the only cookers in its class to have a thermostatically controlled oven. A little more expensive than some of its competition but IMO worth the extra. <font color=red>It makes good toast!</font color=red>. Also, SWMBO often bakes on board and actually prefers the oven to the electric all singing fan oven we have at home, so a thumbs up there.

Solid, easy to clean, does not rattle as long as you remember to tighten the fiddles (grrr SWMBO keeps forgetting).

The only fault I could give it, is that is does not have a splash back, though depending where you are to site it this may or may not be a problem.

Happy hunting.

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[Becky]

I have researched this subect, needless to say with the considerable help of the Forum. The Calor Gas Centre in Southampton, on which an article in one of the mags was based, seemed to have the best selection. We were looking for a replacement for the Plastimo Atlantic on our Moody 37, and the best cooker on the market for marine use is supposed to be the Force 10, which I completed fitting in our boat on Monday. I have a series of tests including baking bread, the results of which I will make available should anyone be interested. We are fitting out Cornish Maid for long-distance cruising, and using the forums on this website for a lot of our information. It hasn't let us down yet!
Incidently, the Force 10 two burner stove is priced at around £1200 (it's the cheapest they make, but it fits our boat as a direct replacement). The Calor Gas Centre is discounting them by £200 at the Boat Show, BUT TCS ( or a name like that), a swindlery not based around here (Hants) is selling them for just under £800 at the show. So if you have time or know somebody who is going to the Boat Show, you could save yourself £400.

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[tcm]

Right that\'s enough sensible answers

My question is : surely it's a bit rude to try and replace Dear Heart and specially rude to refer to her as "the cooker", no?

And anyway, if it really is a gas cooker, why does it have to fit in a small aperture? I would sugest a larger aperture like F1.2 which would allow a quite small gas cooker to look really huge.

Usually, if there is a problem with the gas cooker, it usually just nerds a clean, or there's a switch if it seems that it doesnae work.

Alternatively, it would make a load more sense to repalce it with a drinks fridge, which would save loads and loads of loot on drinking out, whereas eating out is actually cheaper than poncing about with cooking things. PLus, a load of space saved with pans, plates and so forth.

Finally, with a sort-of maybe classicish boat that is just about clear of being and MAB, replacing the cooker is surely a total no-no and wd devalue the boat. I would always look for a boat to be in "original condition" rather than SIBS/LIBS last-day bargain bodgeup, and replacing the gas cooker wd be v suspicious, as if praps it had blown up or got wrecked by inexpert cooking of greasy breakfasts. Maybe.

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[Clive_Rigden]

Re: Right that\'s enough sensible answers

Has anyone any experience of parafin cookers?

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[Twister_Ken]

What an opportunity

Why not go the whole hob and put in an Aga. It would seem to be in keeping with the country cottage/bijou bothy theme.

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[ParaHandy]

Iron brassiere ...

they're called yokels or yottels ... oops, i mean braziers ... need a bit of stoking but works well with peat and other indigenous material .. Madonna's got one .. might have two, actually ... oh dear, the nurse is here ....

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[tcm]

Re: Right that\'s enough sensible answers

I tried that, but let me tell you that cooked parafin tastes awful.

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[ShipsWoofy]

Re: Right that\'s enough sensible answers

Have been following TCM around the forum tonight.

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[tcm]

Re: Right that\'s enough sensible answers

fair kop..

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[claymore]

Re: Right that\'s enough sensible answers

I make a serious post and get some serious and really uesful replies which will point me in the right direction whilst undertaking my research - I'm really grateful to the falorumites who have made their contributions.
Having had a tough sort of a day massaging the frail egos of colleagues and searching for signs of life in the new intake of students - and there being nothing worth watching on the box - I decide to retire for the evening.
Its now 7:53 am and I'm back at work and what do I discover - the alehouse emptied its drunken contents on to the falorum and the ensuing degeneration of my post about cookers has developed into an online tap-room - I can almost hear the clink of glasses and the burps and farts of you all.
Bless
But I'm at work now - bright eyed, bushy tailed and raring to go - and where are you you drunken bunch of buggers - lying in your hungover states in your wasting pits no doubt.
To be pure and virtuous as the Bold Claymore - that should be your ambition today men - rally to now , come on.


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