FIXTURES & FINISHES
Electric range cookers – at home in any kitchen
Stylish, versatile and easy to install, modern energy-efficient range cookers are enjoying a new lease of life in both town and country, as ESSE’s Mark Blewitt explains
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t’s an established rite of passage on the downshifter’s ‘road less travelled.’ Scour Zoopla for a ‘doer-upper’ property in the countryside, escape the city, buy a 4x4, move into a rustic retreat, fix the roof, bathrooms and kitchen, replace the ancient range cooker inherited with aforementioned rural wreck. But times are changing. In the near
future that 4x4 is likely to be a hybrid and may/june 2019
instead of burning heating oil or wood, the range cooker will almost certainly be electric. While there’s something unmistakably satisfying about cooking over heat radiating from a traditional firebox, thanks to intelligently engineered heating elements and clever use of conductive metals, today’s electric range cookers deliver an almost identical cooking
experience to solid fuel models – while consuming significantly less energy. The secret to achieving these
efficiencies lies in the principle of heat storage – bringing a large mass up to temperature and maintaining it with ‘little and often’ injections of energy. A modern range cooker weighs
upwards of 300 kg, meaning that once it gets hot, it tends to stay hot – requiring
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