dylanwinter
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it has gone from this
to this
and the double now looks like this
to this
and the double now looks like this
Look what they have done to the Origo
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AllanG
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Personally, I like the new design, as it looks much more modern. 
VicS
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Orion Jim
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Seems they designed a cooker around a poorly designed potholder.
Wansworth
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.....yes without a grill no toast, toasted cheese expands my culinary limits
Boo2
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Do they still stink of meths ?
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VicS
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Not if you use bio-ethanol or alcool a bruler.
In fact there is now no requirement for "completely denatured alcohol" to contain the pyridine compounds that gave the old mineralised meths its characteristic smell. Even the violet dye is now optional.
Bru
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It's not great is it! And I think it's a marketing mistake. Seems to me they've tried to make the Origo appeal to the newer modern boat market and in the process made it look out of place on older, more traditional, boats where it's got a market!
Sadly, it seems the virtuallly identical (to the old style Origo) Cookmate range is no more
Sadly, it seems the virtuallly identical (to the old style Origo) Cookmate range is no more
David2452
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Had a built in Origo on a boat once, it also had a Propex heater, both were unacceptable, making it prettier will not change the basic concept of either, at least the Origo worked reasonably as an electric hob on shore power which was more than be said of the Propex.
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Robin
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yachtorion
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It does mean the old models are available relatively cheap (while stock remains). I've just bought a new 3000 double for £109!
PhillM
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Bet 2nd hand old ones will go up when the new old stocks all gone.
dylanwinter
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yachtorion
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ex-Gladys
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The new Origo 2 is available on Amazon for £176, the old one used to retail for around £200
KINGFISHER 9
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You can get a real one for that money!
dylanwinter
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bum....
however the one I bought cost me £87
and I reckon it costs me £100 for three days sailing
so I am three days up
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andygc
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A genuine question. Why wouldn't your existing cookware fit? Are all your pans square? The holders are adjustable for height and width, and look as though they can be easily be removed in harbour. I'm perfectly happy with my old Origo, but I really couldn't care about the cosmetics if the new design works as well as the old one.
Robin
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Our pans are mostly round but also significantly bigger diameter than would easily fit on that and we always when cook when out at sea and not just when in harbour.
I see no advantage over a properly designed and installed gas stove, preferably with oven and grill. Alcohol stoves seem like a solution seeking a problem to me. Maybe it is because I'm bigger boat centric these days. My last such alcohol stove was bck around 1970 and it frit me silly when the sun went in one day and I saw the blue flames flickering on the plywood work top by the stove. That, coupled with it taking a lifetime to boil a kettle saw it consigned to the scrap bin just as soon as I could find a proper jobbie to fit.
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yachtorion
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The advantage on my boat is a shot gas system which the surveyor condemmed. New origo.... £180 including gimbal kit. New gas regulator, remote solenoid alarm, twin hob, hoses, pipes, bubble tester, professional installation and safety test.... well probably a grand? I had an origo on the last boat. It was fine. Even if I did prefer a kettle for tea when I had shore power. Apparently they're even better with bio ethanol instead of meths.