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Well what do you know our oven broke this morning at 7.30 this morning.... yay
I blame the wife as for some unexplained reason she asked our 9 year old to pop the oven on for croissants.
Anyway as he's never so much as touched the oven he just twisted the dial to some random setting (cleaning setting??) which we've never used and my guess is a wire or component that has never had current down it just open circuited and now I have an earth neutral fault that takes out the RCD each time the oven is turned on. I've taken the oven out of the unit opened it up but there's no obvious loose Cabling or blow component just as I suspected so that's me off to currys tomorrow to spend a rake of cash I don't have on a new oven.
Just phoned me old dear to tell he to get her dinner service out as we're now going to hers for dinner.
Strangely it's me who's pissed off and stressing and not the wife.... reckon she knows I'll be coughing up for the new oven.
Merry crimbo.
Surely the perfect time to break out the BBQ...... BBQ turkey is awesome.
I had this last Christmas... Wire shorted out on the back of the element, luckily the grill one was indentical so just swapped them over and it lived for a few months longer.
Once had my gas meter run out half way through cooking the Xmas turkey... Luckily there was a 24hr garage open to top it up
We've been told the AGA in the place we are going to at New Year has packed up. We've still decided to go, and are packing the camping stoves. Lol.
Surely the perfect time to break out the BBQ...... BBQ turkey is awesome.
This has been my plan all along. Not so good for the roasties though!
Agas know exactly when Christmas Day is and time their breakdowns accordingly.
Yep, element went in our oven at 4pm on Friday. F all chance to get another. Luckily we do have two ovens - good idea to switch elements over will give that a go. The bbq idea is genius though.
Our Aga has had the decency not to pack in today.
I am a bit nervous as when it does go it's usually the thermocouple and I don't have a spare in!
If your BBQ has a lid then you can do roasties on it no bother. A baking tray(our BBQ has a cast iron griddle plate that we stick on instead of baking tray) onto the grill with the oil in.
If it doesn't have a lid....improvise one
I do full roast dinners at home on ours.
Today I'll be cooking on the braai - got a kilo of tenderloin/fillet for some low and slow cooking action.
I've a nearly new built in electric oven sitting in the garage from a kitchen refurb if anybody wants to come and get it in South Yorkshire, quite a nice stainless double cavity one, but I can't remember the brand. Free if it helps anyone out. Just not today please, but mail in profile.
Cut every thing into thin slices and microwave it.
AGAs are hilarious this time of year, try cooking for 16 at Xmas on a coal fired one! It’s a good job the farm has 4 twin ring gas camping stoves... I wonder why they bought em 😐
However, the last couple of years it’s all oil fired... and a new Stanley to cook on.
😆
No... mums oven will do fine but the kids are not happy as nans house is all smokey and she has no Tech for them to amuse them selves... only fags and the crossword.
Anyway... nowt better than spending an hour or so in currys on Boxing Day is there. Might as well make a day of it and hit DFS and oak furniture world while I'm at it.
Not oven.....fridge. 2 days ago, 7.30pm, very expensive "big" shop just delivered and crammed into fridgefreezer for impending inlaws visit, my wife decided to crank up its setting a little... it gave a buzz and then slowly buzzed to quiet.
An hour later, with little in it now cold, accepting it wss broken we legged it to Currys, luckily open til 9pm as its Christmas.
Choice consisted of checking every fridge freezer on display to see if it was in stock, of which only one (about 20th checked) was.
Exiting 20 minutes after arriving we exited, having wanted a sub £250 white unit we had a £380 silver one.....
No one in the store beleived it would fit in a car so 4 staff all came out to watch, but with seats forward so the good lady had to drive in it went, and the boot 'nearly" shut too, a little application of some climbing rope luckily left in the boot from ages ago and we were on our way.
By 11pm we were up, running and all contents moved over. Think I will give the prawns a miss today though...
Think I will give the prawns a miss today though...
Eh.... How wasteful 🙂 mines traveled from Aberdeen to Angola in my hold baggage... I've not been ill yet.
Heavy rain here in central Scotland yesterday means that the water filters up the hill got blocked. We (neighbour / landlord and I) cleaned them out, but the burn is still in flood, so they are badly silted up.
To avoid getting an airlock in the system, drinking water is on strict ration... good job I stocked up on wine... 🙂
You have my sympathies OP. Our gas oven died on Tuesday, refusing to get up to temperature.
New oven ordered, delivered on Weds and our friendly local gas fitter installed it on Weds afternoon
Plumbers were on site a couple of hours after the oven was delivered. Not as good as last week when a radiator fell off the wall (passing dog claimed to be innocent) - took them 8mins to get onto site then
Chinese take away
was my fall back option
Boiler for me. Finally sorted the lower fan bearing a week ago and thought we were sorted for Christmas, then it started playing up again. Had to RTFM and take a Fluke home. Narrowed it down to pressure switch which now seems ok after some lung powered exercising.
House is warm, girls are happy.
If your BBQ has a lid then you can do roasties on it no bother.
Hmm, I clearly need to up my game 🙂
Anyway the bird came out great on the BBQ, despite it starting to rain about halfway through. And the oven-cooked roasties were excellent!
tbh i wish id been home to do a bbq bird
a mate of mine did his whole Xmas dinner on his kamado joe following pitboys recipes....
looked awesome on instagram haha.... even if he was hiding under a gazebo to do it....
Bloody toaster failed and only toasted on one side, all 4slots affected!! I had to wait longer for my smoked salmon pate on toast.
#Firstworldissues
Still haven't sussed out cooking Christmas Dinner with an Aga - the thing always winds up loosing temperature, probably due to the hotplates both being open, and my cooking times go out the window.
When we eventually get the kitchen redone the Aga is so gone, although I may put in a more eco oil fired range that can turn off and on and heat up in 15 minutes rather than 15 hours... and an electric over and hob.
Damn things - and that's without thinking about the environmental disaster that an always on oil fired block of iron is!!!