what cooker if money was no object

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assuming the basics (ie, it's on a boat) and you do not want gas and ignoring cost implications - what cooker would you go for?

Wallas Diesel
Taylors Paraffin
??

what options are there for robust, good quality, every day cooking requirements?

thanks
 
Gladys said:
Wallas of course!!!... :D

and budget to replace every 8 years, before they go end of life!
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:-)

Twas lovely to meet you at the weekend. We swapped out the hobs. It worked well. Lovely. But then the oven conked out. Utterly bewildered. Now oven works but takes 90mins to get to temperature and now the hob won't ignite either. We've bitten bullet and got engineer coming - he thinks he knows what it is and can effect a miracle, but I'm priming myself for replacement....

Really don't want gas.
Taylors Paraffin is same price as the Wallas, but we'd need to install a small custom tank to take the fuel (doable). The Taylors looks good as it also has a grill (which we have missed with the Wallas).
Just wondering what other options there are. Not a lot it seems.
 
I had a Taylors 030 oven/hop for six years and eventually took it out three years ago as I found it very difficult to control the oven temperatures and had a few hair raising events lighting it on one or two occasions.

On the plus side very economical to run and looks great and no gas.

Reluctantly I installed a new gas system and bought a Nelson Spinflo and very pleased with it to date
 
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Well, I do know a chap (many of us do - he's Martin Evans, the East coast surveyor) who had a Rayburn on board his barge yacht "Armadillo", but Martin tells me that he took it out, because it tried to assassinate him with carbon monoxide, whilst the Havre pilot cutter "Jolie Brise" is said to have had an Aga, at one time (maybe she still does - do Aga make fiddle rails?)

My father's boat, when I was a little boy, had a coke range, supplied by Simpson Lawrence.

I'll be sticking with the Taylor's. It doesn't really have a grill, just an approximation to one, but the flame is significantly hotter than gas, and a cast iron grilling pan with a ridged base works a treat. Also makes good toast...
 
Taylor 030L has to be the best. Had an standard 030 for 25 years. Works fine once you get the hang of it and the L version is larger giving a more useful oven size.
 
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