Gimballed hob/fixed oven on yacht

[Peter]

Had to remove my cooker as bust and unrepairable, apppox 20 year old. The cooker set up was a “funny” arrangement, a fixed oven and grill with a gimballed hob. The couple of years we have had the boat, mono hull yacht, this arrangement seemed to work as we only used the oven when moored or anchored and the hob when at sea as we generally day sail and only use it for coffee, soup etc.. At them moment I am thinking of replacing the existing oven as a fixed oven. Just trying to get views on this arrangement over a conventional fully gimballed yacht cooker costing £ss. If going the fully gimbelled route any recommendations for cookers, we where looking at a SMEV

Peter.

 

[KenMcCulloch]

I don't think it's that unusual, especially on bigger boats. When I worked on sail training vessels, mostly >70ft I think fixed cookers were the norm in fact I can't remember one with a gimballed cooker. You do neeed to be a bit careful with liquids, use deeper oven dishes and so on but apart from baking cakes on a long beat (they come out a bit lopsided) no problem at all. On a fixed hob you need deep fidddles and similar care not to over-fill pans but again, no real problem.

On a small tender boat however I think gimbals are essential for safety although it is partly a question of galley design..

 

[rogerthebodger]

On my previous boat I had a combined oven and hob which was all gimballed. On my new boat I have got a gimballed hob that can by set in a fixed position but have not fitted a normal oven but fitted a fixed combined microwave and convection oven.

 

[bazobeleza]

We have an ungimballed oven/hobs mounted fore/aft with high fiddles, works no probs. changing it this year for a convection/grill microwave oven with a buil in hob above again with high fidddles.