Thread: Stoves - Gas/electric

First off, I love Agas as much as I love Landies, and that's a whole lot. I don't have one and probably won't ever get a "real" constant heat one as I live in Perth and am single but I'll get an Aga version of a normal stove next time sure as I got a Defender as soon as I could.

It was great to see those pics.

Secondly I think the advice for bottled gas for your stove top and electric for the oven is sound. The expression "you're cooking with gas" didn't come out of nowhere. Hot water I'm not so sure about, I'd be thinking electric boosted solar might be the way to go.

Oh and did I mention I love Agas?

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

I prefer a gas stove and an electric oven....

if you run out of gas you can still use the oven, if the electricity goes down you can use the stove.

I think gas offers better control over most electric stovetops.

I agree, a fan forced convection ovens heat quickly and evenly and gas stoves as Dave said offer greater control than electric ones. Modern electric hobs also heat quickly but most of these need a near perfect flat saucepan bottom to transfer heat correctly whereas gas doesnt - cant stirfry on an electric hob very well either.

My sincerest thanks to all that have commented in this thread. Its a really interesting learning experience for me in all of this house building thing. There is a lot of money going down and it would be nice to get everything right to start with, and so the experience here is absolutely invaluable. Thank you!

The overwhelming feedback seems to be to cook with gas, and in many repects there was a fairly limited comparison to induction although there was an excellent article posted, but you have all got me thinking that even though the 2 cooking methods are comparable that the blackout situation may be an over riding factor in heading towards a gas top. I think most ovens are already electric and fan forced as they distribute the heat relatively evenly. Even if the house was to run on an emergency generator, the induction cooking seems to draw a huge amount of power despite its efficiencies. The other thing which is really cool, is that I think I can then just plug the BBQ into the house also rather than running it off its own bottles.

The HWS is another interesting one! I would like to have instant gas or electric HWS, and that is fine for me, but the house is 4br and running that much HW through instant gas may be offputting for whoever may buy the house after me. The instant electric also looks like a really good idea to me - depending on if the house has that much power available to it! The pressure issues are something also to consider, especially as the house is on tank, although the water is to be pumped up to the house rather than from a gravity feed. The plans are currently for a solar setup and there is no reason at this stage why that cant change (pending Bassiks) and another option which has been given is a heat pump tank. Being just out of Orange I really wasnt sure that the solar was the way to go, though the builder has told me that the solar can generate heat down to some really low temp - how.... I've got no idea, but this is a cold climate region. What happened to the good old days with the electric Rheemglas tanks that were relatively cheap and you just turf them out every 10 years when they explode - yeah, false economy.

check what the local guys chrage to replace bottles as some areas are quite expensive.

Cheers Steve

I have gas bottles, running the gas oven/stove top 2 bottles lasts 6 months in summer, 1 - 2 months in winter with the heater running as well. Personally, I think I can cook better with gas.

BBQ is the wrong fitting for the bottle, but I have seen home built adaptors, I even saw one bloke fill up a bottle in his ute at the servo $10 as opposed to $95, what would be the fine though? (apparently basic plumbing supply shops have all the fittings)

HWS, I have electric. Was put off strictly solar HWS by the fact the 2nd person always had a luke warm shower. Don't know if this is still the case with todays setups. I think you can get duel setups that use both solar and grid power.

Q: How does one reheat KFC on a gas stove?

Originally Posted by dobbo

I have gas bottles, running the gas oven/stove top 2 bottles lasts 6 months in summer, 1 - 2 months in winter with the heater running as well. Personally, I think I can cook better with gas.

BBQ is the wrong fitting for the bottle, but I have seen home built adaptors, I even saw one bloke fill up a bottle in his ute at the servo $10 as opposed to $95, what would be the fine though? (apparently basic plumbing supply shops have all the fittings)

HWS, I have electric. Was put off strictly solar HWS by the fact the 2nd person always had a luke warm shower. Don't know if this is still the case with todays setups. I think you can get duel setups that use both solar and grid power.

Q: How does one reheat KFC on a gas stove?

A: With one of these Matt

http://www.colemanaustralia.com.au/t...tCategory=1078

Simon have a look at these beauties

Falcon Classic 110 gas cooker product page

Originally Posted by dobbo

BBQ is the wrong fitting for the bottle, but I have seen home built adaptors, I even saw one bloke fill up a bottle in his ute at the servo $10 as opposed to $95, what would be the fine though? (apparently basic plumbing supply shops have all the fittings)

HWS, I have electric. Was put off strictly solar HWS by the fact the 2nd person always had a luke warm shower. Don't know if this is still the case with todays setups. I think you can get duel setups that use both solar and grid power.

Q: How does one reheat KFC on a gas stove?

I thought that I'd seen a few people with the BBQ which plugs into the house rather than into the bottle and they just run a hose that matches the gas cock on the wall to the bbq.

Thats also a really interesting point re the bottles and filling. It'd be interesting to know if filling bottles from built adaptors which are trailer mounted for example is illegal.

The KFC - thats no probs. Same way that I cook fish fingers.... in the microwave.

Originally Posted by Redback

A: With one of these Matt

http://www.colemanaustralia.com.au/t...tCategory=1078

Simon have a look at these beauties

Falcon Classic 110 gas cooker product page

Hi Baz, I had a look at these in the shops. They're really cool looking, and the shop man thought that they were really well built / high quality etc, but I thought that they were really flimsy to be honest and in that respect didn't impress me. Nothing like the build of the real things.

My Next Door neighbour has pulmed up the gas from his House to his
backyard and fitted the correct fitting for his 4 burner gas BBQ for
entertaining his Guests

I thought that's pretty cool, mind you his son is a plumber to do all the gas work etc.

If I was to build a new house I'd go with gas. My electricity bill is always up
and above $250 every quarter and that's probably becuase I have a small Hot water
system which is switched to use off-peak 2 .