Cooking Options

[stament]

We have moved into a new house and are just considering the options. We have a gas hob and wanted an electric cooker.

The choice of free standing electric cookers seems to be very limited over here indeed. I have only seen a couple on the intranet. Is there anywhere where they have a range of them or is it something that Thailand doesn't have?

I know there are plenty of built-in types of ovens and hobs but I am not sure whether we want a built-in kitchen and hence this type.

Which leads me to option 3. I have read about people recommending halogen cookers or portable ovens. I wonder whether this could be a solution. Are you able to do everything in these that you can in a normal oven? And if you can are theynas good or better than a conventional oven taste wise? I don't like food cooked in a microwave.

Lastly can anyone recommend any of the above based options and the model itself based on personal experience. We would be using it to cook a range of things, cakes, bread, meat fish, grill and roast. Christmas dinner will be the big one!

Any retailers, models and approximare prices would be very helpful. Looking at normal ranges not luxury brands.

Thanks all

[stament]

A portable combination oven could be a possibility as could a portable oven with rotisserie

[Chicog]

I hardly every use my cooker any more.

It's either the slow cooker or the air fryer.

[Konini]

I paid about 7,000 baht for an oven, tabletop kind. It's commercial sized, absolutely huge, I can do 4 loaves of bread at a time. There were others a bit smaller but this one was on special offer and as cheap as a smaller one, and has paid for itself several times over. Can also be used as a grill. You can get the little ones for a few thousand dollars from the department stores, Homepro and the like, they are really just toaster ovens and it depends what you are going to be using it for. If you're looking at cakes and biscuits you would struggle to get good results from one of them. Ditto Yorkshire puddings unless you buy the frozen ones. Even the better quality ones, which are approaching the price I paid for the big one aren't so good. It's even better if you have a semi-outdoor spot where you can put it to dissipate the heat.

In my opinion, the halogen hobs aren't the best, induction is the way of the future and the prices are right down now. You just have to make sure that your pans will suit induction heating. I've seen induction hobs (4 ring) in Baan and Beyond.

For the hob, pretty much any of the Homepro type shops, but look on Lazada as there are many good deals. For the bigger oven, go to the kitchen supply shops here. Not the ones that sell food, the ones that most of us walk past without noticing. Usually they have a lot of sets of scales somewhere near the front, most of them but not all. Don't know if they would be on Lazada, probably will be. From when I was looking, it will work out about the same price as getting a half decent free standing one with a fan forced oven if you can find one.

[MissAndry]

i use an Otto oven in a Pyrex dish, around 1,000bht.

Can cook almost anything, pies, cakes, biscuits, bread, roasts, pizzas.

Results taste the same as any other convection oven.

Edited July 30, 2016 by MissAndry

[pgrahmm]

We have a Minoya oven that is conventional/convection/rotiserie & have cooked & baked the full gamut of foods the way we'd use any oven and is used daily....Cannot fault it's performance but sometimes the cooking times have to be adjusted....Not sure of the size but the door width is 20" so accepts everything in pan sizes...

Our stove top is a two burner gas....

The microwave pressure cooker gets used semi regularly and is amazingly efficient once you get used to using it....Nordic Ware makes it....

The George Foreman grill is also used many times during the week - usually by me but the wife uses it too.....

Outside we have a wet smoker/bbq that can make up to 50# of food but only use when big groups show up - usually family.....

Between them all a prodigious amount of food can be prepared - if you can find enough counter space = never enough counter space....

[junglechef]

On July 30, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Konini said:

I paid about 7,000 baht for an oven, tabletop kind. It's commercial sized, absolutely huge, I can do 4 loaves of bread at a time. There were others a bit smaller but this one was on special offer and as cheap as a smaller one, and has paid for itself several times over. Can also be used as a grill. You can get the little ones for a few thousand dollars from the department stores, Homepro and the like, they are really just toaster ovens and it depends what you are going to be using it for. If you're looking at cakes and biscuits you would struggle to get good results from one of them. Ditto Yorkshire puddings unless you buy the frozen ones. Even the better quality ones, which are approaching the price I paid for the big one aren't so good. It's even better if you have a semi-outdoor spot where you can put it to dissipate the heat.

In my opinion, the halogen hobs aren't the best, induction is the way of the future and the prices are right down now. You just have to make sure that your pans will suit induction heating. I've seen induction hobs (4 ring) in Baan and Beyond.

For the hob, pretty much any of the Homepro type shops, but look on Lazada as there are many good deals. For the bigger oven, go to the kitchen supply shops here. Not the ones that sell food, the ones that most of us walk past without noticing. Usually they have a lot of sets of scales somewhere near the front, most of them but not all. Don't know if they would be on Lazada, probably will be. From when I was looking, it will work out about the same price as getting a half decent free standing one with a fan forced oven if you can find one.

 

How can an oven be used as a grill? 

Even with the loose definition of a grill here that sometimes means a griddle or flat top which is closer to cooking in a pan then what I consider grilling over an open heat source, preferably fire, such on a BBQ, I don't see how an oven would work (excluding rotisserie that can be done in certain kinds of ovens).

 

 

Edited August 1, 2016 by junglechef

[SooKee]

 

How can an oven be used as a grill? 

Even with the loose definition of a grill here that sometimes means a griddle or flat top which is closer to cooking in a pan then what I consider grilling over an open heat source, preferably fire, such on a BBQ, I don't see how an oven would work (excluding rotisserie that can be done in certain kinds of ovens).

 

 

It's a terminology thing I think. In the UK at least the term grill is also used to describe the top heating element in ovens, usually of the exposed ring type, that is used for cooking / browning pizzas/ cheese on toast etc.


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[Chicog]

Precisely. My oven has "Bake" and "Broil" options, the difference being that Bake uses the top and bottom elements, and "Broil" just the top.

 

 

[junglechef]

That's a broiler or refered to as a salamander in a Proffesional kitchen.

First we have to put up with the local misinterpretation and now the Brits misunderstanding of the English language!

I think we might have stumbled upon a reason for the state of British food, they don't even know what the proper names are for kitchen appliances!

 

[SooKee]

3 hours ago, junglechef said:

That's a broiler or refered to as a salamander in a Proffesional kitchen.

First we have to put up with the local misinterpretation and now the Brits misunderstanding of the English language!

I think we might have stumbled upon a reason for the state of British food, they don't even know what the proper names are for kitchen appliances!

 

Misunderstanding of English from the country it comes from.  That's rich!!!

 

And I'll take British food over American crap any day

Edited August 1, 2016 by SooKee

[Aussieroaming]

horses for courses, give me gas anyday