Dilemma ---Before Xmas Or After ?

[Dee Sa]

Chief Stout has told me to go out and buy a new electric cooker today.
Now I dont know if its possible to get before xmas but should I :-
use the old cooker to cook the xmas dinner and not have to worry about ever having to clean it again ?
or cook the xmas stuff in the new one and probably have to clean it ?
what do A/B ers think ?
Dee

[mccfluff]

is your old cooker faulty?

if so i'd do the before option, if not then after. can;t you get self cleaning ovens these days or have i dreamt that?

[friedgreentomato]

Personally I would buy a new one now - the excitement of cooking on a new cooker would be too much for me.

Have you decided what sort you are going for? one of the range ones perhaps?

Sorry see told you so excited for you!

[vodkancoke]

I, like FGT, get far too excited over cookers! lol I would buy it now. Cleaning an oven isn't THAT big a problem if you do it regularly or if you get a company in to do it for you.

[owdhamer]

You could always ask the shop to clean it for you

[ummmm]

Yes Fluff but they aren't great.

[McMouse]

Get a self cleaning cooker, they are brilliant.

[mccfluff]

better than never being cleaned at all i would imagine...

[friedgreentomato]

tinfoil in the bottom, racks go in the dishwasher - once a month and bingo clean cooker!!

Glad i am not the only one Vodka!!

[Old_Geezer]

I don't buy new until the old has failed.

Anyway, if you buy now then by January your cooker will be soooo "last year".

Think sales.

[ummmm]

I use a baking tray in the bottom of mine.

[China Doll]

I would wait til the sales personally if it's unlikely that your current one will conk out mid christmas dinner.

[Barmaid]

Damn, you've just reminded me I need to clean ours.

[ummmm]

I cleaned mine last week :-)

[jackthehat]

If you *do* buy a new cooker.....keep an eye on your meal.

I had a new electric cooker several years ago and Christmas Dinner was the first big meal I used it for........we had charcoal and cinders for lunch that year as I hadn't taken account of just how poorly my old oven had actually been performing! LoL

[chrissa1]

Better the oven you know, than the oven you don't, for Xmas Dinner.

[DTCwordfan]

I would use my existing one - for that very reason JTH highlights, your familiarity with it for such an important meal.....new ovens/cookers need a bit of familiarisation and particularly if you are making the jump from conventional to fan.....

[Smowball]

A local company here comes and cleans your cooker/oven - it literally looks like it has just come from the showroom when they have finished!

[ummmm]

I phoned one of those firms and they wanted £55 to do it. I'll clean it myself for that.

[Dee Sa]

thanks everyone, cooker is old and the oven takes much longer to cook than normal, I was worried it would konk off on xmas day, knowing my luck it would do that ! anyway bought a new one at Currys the only high street store that does them these days and they actually said do you want it delivered Wed, Thurs or Fri of this week and yes we will take the old one away for free ! but they wanted £55 to connect the new one I refused b-i-l is an electrian so is the guy next door but one !Happy xmas everyone.