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Eating and Drinking => Kitchen Natter => Topic started by: Madame Cholet on September 08, 2014, 22:07

Title: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Madame Cholet on September 08, 2014, 22:07
Help I'm suffering from gadittosis again a good buy though and will save electricity the crumbles cooked in 10 mins. Reduced from £100.00 thank you to who ever recommended them to me a while ago.
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Annen on September 08, 2014, 22:23
I've got one and I use it all the time.  It saves me heating the big oven up and you don't have to wait ages for it to get up to temperature.
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Madame Cholet on September 08, 2014, 22:40
I almost stopped using my oven because of the size of it so i can now expand my variety of meals again.
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Kristen on September 09, 2014, 10:16
I've got one and I use it all the time.  It saves me heating the big oven up and you don't have to wait ages for it to get up to temperature.

Snap. Particularly when its just the two of us here ... although given to daughter at Uni now, to hopefully cut her & flatmates' electricity bills not running an oven multiple times in the even for each individual meal, so I suppose I'll have to buy another just for us now!
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Madame Cholet on September 09, 2014, 21:07
have a look in B and M Kristen
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Kristen on September 10, 2014, 13:28
have a look in B and M Kristen
Thanks. No store particularly close to me ... they have a Russell Hobbs 11L (+5L extension) 32cm diameter oven for £39.99.  The one we bought was from Andrew James which has hinged lid. It is 12L (+5L extension) and came with various bits & bobs, including a spare bulb [maybe they all do] current price £55.29, so not a lot in it (and I thikn mine was On Offer at the time I originally bought it)

From memory my original decision was based on this review:
http://besthalogencooker.com/uk-halogen-cooker-reviews/
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Annen on September 10, 2014, 15:14
Aldi had them for £25 a few months ago, but they have probably gone by now.
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Madame Cholet on September 29, 2014, 04:40
Really please with this cooked several different things in it just waiting for more freezer space to make pizza bases
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: GrannieAnnie on September 29, 2014, 13:38
I like mine, which I got from Coopers of Stortford, but I don't use it often enough.  Sometimes I forget to get it out until I've already put something in the big oven!   DOH   :(
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: dugless on September 29, 2014, 17:11
We have had one for several years Gone through 3 so far  they seem to be of different quality, our latest one is good and has lasted quite a while we even take in the caravan saves using the oven in there.
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Madame Cholet on September 29, 2014, 19:03
Just made a vegetable crumble for tomorrow perfect for fast lotty food after work.
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: tosca100 on September 30, 2014, 06:24
l have my Mum's one, quite old but hardly used. Need to find instructions on line then find it in the cellar, but keen to give it a go.
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Madame Cholet on September 30, 2014, 06:35
Mine is very simple to use just a timer and a temp control, the button in the handle turns it off when you lift it.
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: theothermarg on October 29, 2014, 16:40
Just said about this on another thread  :wacko: I really must try using it but cannot get my head round it  :wacko: :blush:.
marg
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: tosca100 on October 29, 2014, 17:31
Made cheese on toast, put it away and forgot about it till I saw this! ::)
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Madame Cholet on October 29, 2014, 19:50
really easy to use made pasta bake in it last week
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Annen on October 29, 2014, 23:50
Just said about this on another thread  :wacko: I really must try using it but cannot get my head round it  :wacko: :blush: .
marg
I just use the temperatures given for fan ovens when I'm heating things up and its really easy to keep an eye on, being glass sided.  I fasten a bit of foil on if it looks like it might be burning. Trial and error really.
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Plot46 on October 30, 2014, 04:24
We bought one at the start of 2014, the memsahib used it a few times and that was it. It now sits  t'other end of the kitchen, now that I'm doing most of the meals I'm going to give it a go. :).
I'll have to find the book out, I make my own pasta and I'm wondering if a pasta meal would work with this method of cooking? ??? 
Title: Re: just bought a halogen oven £39.00
Post by: Madame Cholet on October 30, 2014, 06:00
Use like  normal  fan oven it does get hotter at the top though.
Title: vege cobbler perfect in the halogen oven
Post by: Madame Cholet on November 20, 2014, 21:23
this worked really well with the top heat. I had to substitute the marg for oil as I had run out and it worked fine.
Title: Re: vege cobbler perfect in the halogen oven
Post by: GrannieAnnie on November 20, 2014, 23:03
Glad to hear it Rachel, what do you put in it please?  Haven't made a cobbler for years!
Title: Re: vege cobbler perfect in the halogen oven
Post by: Madame Cholet on November 21, 2014, 07:48
I used Delia's cheese scone for the top with olive oil instead of marg.

Onions garlic sweated in olive oil then added squash, broccoli, fat babies, basil and mushrooms frozen toms and tomato puree.