Armoury Kitchen
It’s electric, it’s moveable and it’s pretty damn sexy too, as ovens go. Credit card at the ready!
EVER READY
Everyone loves a heat storage oven – your AGAs, your Rayburns – but there are famous downsides. Except not so much, reckonsMATT BIELBY, if you consider an Everhot…
Well done; this time you seem to have reinvented the AGA. Yes, on the surface – but what we have here is actually rather different. Everhots use the same principles as other heat storage ranges – the hotplates and ovens are always on – but with more control: you can set exact cooking temperatures, there’s usually a grill, you can turn parts of it off, and it doesn’t need regular servicing, which saves a couple of hundred pounds a year. But it’s just as big an investment though, and impossible to take with you if you move. Ah, but that’s another Everhot thing: you can shift it pretty easily – though they weigh at least 250kg (that’s a quarter of a ton),
so your removal guys may balk. Best to ask Everhot themselves to step in and help, maybe? It runs off gas, I suppose. Electricity actually, and, again, it’s much less faff. Though AGA does do a 13 amp electric cooker – which could theoretically be plugged into a regular socket – most require a dedicated 32 amp cooker circuit. But Everhots are designed to run off normal kitchen electrics. Before you ask, it doesn’t need a concrete base or a flue either. Hmm. I’ve never understood how to work these things… The idea is that you take advantage of those qualities specific to this sort of beast. Dishes are cooked evenly by radiant heat, rather than from one
direction; you get all the joy of constant temperature cast iron hotplates; and the slow-cooking bottom oven is perfect for making sure your food is never dried out. Okay, I’m kinda tempted. Bet they cost a ton, though. The little Everhot 60 was the first one they did, over 30 years ago – two hotplates, two large ovens and a grill for around £4,600. The 90 is a little bigger, the 100 larger yet, and so it goes, until we get to the mighty 150 range, by which point we’re in nine grand territory – and need a good five foot space to slot the thing in!
✱ FOR MORE, contact Everhot Cookers, Coaley Mill, Coaley, Dursley, Gloucestershire, GL11 5DS; 01453 890018;
www.everhot.co.uk
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