Worktop halogen oven

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theclaud

Openly Marxist
Location
Swansea
Interesting! Is Aldi still selling them? Do they use a lot less energy than a conventional oven?
 

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
Location
lost somewhere
I had never heard of halogen ovens but I just Googled them. They get rave reviews from their users.

My only advice on kitchens that I can give is that IKEA drawer units are very good value and are extremely robust. I bought twelve of them to store my tools and stuff in at work, about ten year ago. There are five drawers in each unit. They have been very heavily loaded and have been abused horribly but they work as well as the day I bought them. I wish I had bought some for home when we did up our kitchen thirteen years ago.
 

Little yellow Brompton

A dark destroyer of biscuits!
Location
Bridgend
I've just bought one of these - £30 in Aldi - a large glass container with a lamp on top, basically. The reason, without too much boring detail, is that I've just moved into a house that needs a new kitchen and there's no working oven here.

I didn't have that much faith that this would really work, or be a good buy even being so cheap. It's a clunking great object, and the cooking process involves a light source that would burn your retinas up if you looked at it directly. It floodlights the kitchen a treat when it's going. But it's just roasted a chicken with potatoes and vegetables (apart from the green ones I wanted to steam) in just under an hour, and the result was moist and sweet and ungreasy, since all I added was a spot of oil rubbed on to encourage the skin to brown. All I have to do now is wash the glass bowl - no crusty oven to clean. I'm a convert.

Anyone else got one? Any comments? Maybe when I spec the new kitchen I'll leave out the conventional oven and grill and use this instead; it would mean more cupboard space.

Oh and any tips on doing a complete new kitchen would be gratefully received - I've never done one before.
I have one and you can take it from my cold dead hands. It's so good that when looking at a new cooker , we have already decided we don't need a second oven.
 

jim55

Guru
Location
glasgow
i really fancy getting one of these ,hows the grille part?have u n
made say cheese on toast ,will it melt cheese rather than just bake it ?
 

GetAGrip

Still trying to look cool and not the fool HA
Location
N Devon
Am now on Halogen oven no. 3. Though they are excellent pieces of kitchen kit, expect the element to go any time after 12 - 18 months.
Because they are so versatile and efficient, when no 3's element goes phutt, I shall invest in no. 4.
I understand replacement elements are available for £19 or there abouts.
 

jim55

Guru
Location
glasgow
brill , im gona get one as they sound really good ,i stay in a rented flat and there is a cooker/oven there already ,but tbh i hardly use it as it takes ages to preheat (i mean ,,,really , ,like half an hr and i think the thermo is gubbed ),things take ages to cook
 

Levo-Lon

Guru
Excellent ,use mine all the time.

Jacket spuds, 10 mins in microwave then 20 mins in halogen at 200, perfect crispy skin jacket, you may need a few mins longer in microwave if doing large spuds ect, you'll soon suss it.

Most things cook quick and saves using the oven.


Always nice to see Vernons face pop up on an old thread ,bless him..
 
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