Thinking Of Not Having A New Cooker

[rowanwitch]

My current one has died and I am seriously considering not replacing it with another one. Just getting a mini one that sits on the work top. I would gain a chunk of extra space, and have room for a dishwasher which I would use more often. I mostly use my slow cookers and microwave and living alone using a big oven seems inefficient. I love cooking but a small oven would still mean I could bake a bit.
Some friends think I am crazy, some think it's a great idea, one is going to do it himself when his cooker needs replacing.
I can't see me holding any dinner parties in the future.

Your opinions please.

[diddlydo]

Although there are only 2 of us now, I can't imagine being without my double oven - loads of times we want to do something in the main oven and grill something else at the same time. I couldn't do with only having a grill in the main and only oven.

[ladybirder]

Do it Rowan. I have a Halogen oven that sits on the worktop which I use for cooking all fish and meat. It's instantly hot the minute you turn it on and I use a microwave to cook veg. I also have a slow cooker which was a Christmas present and I've used it once and a conventional oven I never use at all anymore. What you have suggested will suit you very well I think.

[Old_Geezer]

I done without a cooker for over a decade now, but miss it. Just not sufficiently to do anything about it. The combi works ok for someone with their own place.

[TonyV]

Roman will ask my friends with canal boats what they use. Always energy efficiency is in their mind.

[woofgang]

I am on my own and wouldn't be without my dishwasher. I have got a combi microwave thatgets a ton of use especially in the summer.

[shoota]

One of these is what you need
Yourself and others for to feed.
Hubble, bubble, no more muddle,
Bung all in for much less trouble.
Build a fire and with a trivet
Made from iron and many a rivet,
Irish stew or some potent brew,
This will cook it through and through.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/amazing-large-copper-iron-witches-238658230

[rowanwitch]

Got one, no self respecting with would be without one, how else would you boil your tea towels and dish cloths.

Decision now comes down to cost, best reviewed oven me and need at least somehow ring, cost of disconnecting and removal of cooker plus work top replacement/extension and dishwasher I could buy a bloody... Smeg. Now looking at double ovens and sink top mini dish washers, as been told by one of the council workmen they will be starting kitchen replacements soon and I would be better waiting as I will get some input in where the cupboards go and may have the chance to pay for minor additions with a bit of tweaking I can get a half width dishwasher at that point and keep a cooker. All I need then is a place for the recycling bags which are currently tucked in the gaps.

[tamborine]

On my own now & rarely use dw as it never washed roast tins, fry pans or safe with best china & takes too long to wash anything. I do have s dbl sink to soak ^^ awkwards. Wouldnt swap standard cooker for dishwasher.

[hc4361]

I put all my roasting tins and frying pans in the dishwasher. All my crockery is dishwasher safe, too.

[woofgang]

I puteverything in my dishwasher except glasses and my good chefs knives

[tamborine]

extra exes of dishwasher cubes, de-ferring, heating to dry dishes & bending to unload machine. You're welcome to my machine - free.

[rowanwitch]

Old one now has three working rings and the oven and grill seem ok. I can manage with that for a bit while I save up a bit extra.

[tonyav]

If it's an electric cooker the rings are easy to replace, Rowan.

[rowanwitch]

It's a solid ring one, so far best quote is £119 including the part

[Hopkirk]

A slimline dishwasher is a better size if you live alone.

[1ozzy]

When our dishwasher passed away Mrs Oz reckoned "we don't need one", then she heard " don't ever expect me to wash dishes".

We had a new dishwasher three days later ;-/