Bad luck :(

No more bacon sarnies for me for breakfast for a while. After a friend commented he could smell a faint smell of gas in our kitchen, we thought it best to play it safe and call out a gas engineer. He's been, tested everything, and condemned me cooker:(

It looks like cold sarnies for tea now until pay day.

 

Awwww poor Clueless what a shame, was it old?

According to the gas man my last cooker was over 50 years old

and was still in working order when we replaced it with a new one.

They dont make them to last these days.

 

The cooker was ancient, but not quite that old. It was third hand. My older sister had it from new, then gave it my younger sister, who used it for a while before getting a new one. The old one then spent about a year in the shed, until I bought it off her nearly a year ago. Its been going strong for all that time until a nasty man put a big sticker on it saying it was an offence to continue using it. (He wasn't really a nasty man of course, he did the right thing, it was found to be unsafe).

Still, I've always hated that cooker. This will spur me on to buy a new one. It could have waiting til payday though:(

 

That's a shame, Clueless - but I think you're well due a new one .
Big chance to get something nice :D

 

[size=large]You have done the right thing so the problem with gas was detected and dealt with. Better so than risking an explosion! I once met somebody who survived a gas explosion in his flat. Although he was lucky enough to have survived, such an experience can scar you for life. Domestic appliances usually break at the worse ever time.[/size]

 

hey whats your location i have a new one in my garage going spare it was only used for couple of months

 

That is the most rotten luck.. How can one survive without bacon butties...

 

They say necessity is the mother of invention.

I've just discovered that our panini grill does an excellent job of cooking bacon

I'm off out in a minute to buy a slow cooker and a new microwave. Just cheap kit but it will do for a while, and by pure chance, my mate's mam has a brand new, unused cooker in her garage that she might sell me fairly cheaply.

Thanks Bi9johnny, but I think I might be sorted.

 

Not good Dave, if you don't get it sorted, join your local freecycle group & put out a wanted.
Worked when I asked for a dishwasher for sister, picked one up the next day

 

Its a big inconvenience but it will all work out. Its the kick up the behind I needed to renew our dated and very limited range of kitchen gear.

I've been fancying a slow cooker for ages, and the wife has been after a microwave for ages, but I couldn't justify the expense. Now the expense is justified, and while I was out I also but a deep fat fryer, so proper chips again at long last.

I went to see the cooker my mate's mam has for sale. It is a built in type one and it looks nice. She is letting me have it for £75 even though it has never been used, so now all I need to is build a suitable kitchen unit to fit it all into, something else I've been meaning to sort for ages but never got round to.

For the short term, all that remains to be done now, is to find out what sort of things, other than stew and curry, I can use my new slow cooker for

 

Do you mean a haybox type slow cooker or some sort of electric thinger that i'm not aware of ?

I do dried beans in my haybox. Boil em for 10 mins to destroy the toxins, change the water, bring em back to the boil then put em in the box overnight. Saves using another 50 mins worth of gas to finish cooking them

 

It's an electric thing. I've never heard of a haybox. What's that one?

Also, what toxins are in beans? I thought they were edible raw. Have I poisoned myself?

 

Not unless you have noticed it Dave.

http://www.foodreference.com/html/artredkidneybeanpoisoning.html

A Haybox is an old term used to describe an insulated box in which you put a hot crock of something you need to cook/tenderise.

By keeping the heat in, the stuff inside cooks over a longer period, usually with better results than boiling the hell out of it.

Although hay was originally used as an insulator, I now use a polystyrene fish box with a sheeps wool lining, covered by a slab of Cellotex rigid insulation.

some beans take longer than others, you just have to trial it, but it does work, just need a bit of planning with regard to what you want to eat tommorow.

It saves money, its saves fuel and with a bit of foresight you could fit the whole thing into your fitted kitchen & then show all your friends when they come round.

Spread the word, we are running out of fuel, i've been doing this for the past 25 years and it works.


Anyway, that wasn't what I came back on this thread for.

It was to say that I smelt a gas leak in my caravan & so resorted to using the barbeque for breakfast.
I've become very adept at boiling a kettle with twigs & then using the glowing embers to cook breakfast

Also noticed that twigs are free & butane costs £13 a bottle & only lasts 2 weeks:DOH: