The beginning of the end for conventional cooker repairs?

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http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl … _10013.htm
Couple one or two of those with the grill/microwave they’re flogging for £40 and who’s going to bother getting their conventional cooker fixed? Actually, I’m tempted to go for it myself! But I’ll probably wait a year or two till one sells for £2 in the local auction.
Mike.

[adv]

Re: The beginning of the end for conventional cooker repairs

they micro grills aint worth a t””ss lol 😳

[kwatt]

Re: The beginning of the end for conventional cooker repairs

adv wrote:they micro grills aint worth a t””ss lol 😳

There’s not much to add to that. 😉

K.

[leavemetogetonwithit]

Re: The beginning of the end for conventional cooker repairs

Maybe. But apparently you get three years guarantee in the price. A few of them will surely get through the three years?
Mike.

[kwatt]

Re: The beginning of the end for conventional cooker repairs

So what?

They don’t cook properly.

K.

[leavemetogetonwithit]

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Doesn’t have to cook. Only needs to sell!
Mike.

[kwatt]

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Ah but, that’s where you’re wrong… very wrong.

The Great British Public like their grilled food way too much to accept an inferior grill for very long.

But I reckon most people will see that sort of combi in the same way I do, it’s a neat add on that, might come in handy at some stage, but it doesn’t replace a proper cooker by any stretch.

You also forget the requirement for a hob. The hob is more important than an oven as, you can cook virtually anything (bar a roast bird or pie) on a hob and the vast bulk of popular UK food can only be produced if you have a hob of some sort.

Sure, you can buy microwave meals but then, you don’t need a grill for those.

I’m going to guess you don’t cook Mike. 😉

K.

[leavemetogetonwithit]

Re: The beginning of the end for conventional cooker repairs

Well, I’m not a great one for cooking. But I wasn’t seeing this thread as a discussion of what’s the best way to cook but rather looking for an explanation for the fact I don’t seem to have had to replace more than a couple of cooker elements in 2010 so far!
As for the hob, that’s what I started the thread with.
And the title has a question mark in it so it was intended to invite discussion rather than stir up a wasps’ nest.
Mike.

[adv]

Re: The beginning of the end for conventional cooker repairs

when they start doin fan ovens for £40 then ad be worried. tho way things are goin it miite. lets hope not 😆

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Re: The beginning of the end for conventional cooker repairs

adv wrote:when they start doin fan ovens for £40 then ad be worried. tho way things are goin it miite. lets hope not 😆

If they can do microwaves for £20 to £40 I don’t know what’s holding them back with fan ovens. I guess it’s the space taken up in warehouse, retail and transport by larger items.
Has anyone else had fewer (nice,easy money) elements to do of recent months / years?
Mike.

[kwatt]

Its likely just quiet Mike, I doubt very much that people are just buying a daft little microwave to avoid paying for a cooker repair.

K.

[leavemetogetonwithit]

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Well, you’d be surprised. I hadn’t thought of this before in connection with this thread (honestly) but one of my many friends who is enjoying life “walking about” at the moment asked me to look at his cooker before Xmas. It was blowing the trip as soon as he switched on. I sorted it out at a special friends price by disconnecting the grill element. (Well, it was a little more complicated but to cut to the chase.) In the meantime he had bought a £14.99 “raclette” (Swiss idea thing for one of their melted cheese dishes) from Lidl and been using that as a hob! Anyway, at the time, I offered to get the grill element for him and fit it inclusive for a tenner (That’s around £2 over trade price for the bit but he is a really good friend.) I got the bit into stock but still have it as despite the fact that I see him every week he keeps putting it off till he can spare the tenner.
Mike.

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Re: The beginning of the end for conventional cooker repairs

Money is tight and people are making do with whatever, I went to a washer the other day and found there intergrated microwave had string wrapped around the door pins as the lever to open the door was bust, I offered to repair it reduced and was told we are ok with that for now as we only use it to defrost the odd item and heat the odd coffee, its not very good and getting on a bit.

I guess when it goes they’ll buy a tesco mw for £40 and stick it in the hole.

Happy days. 😡

[adv]

Re: The beginning of the end for conventional cooker repairs

to be honest it is worrying quiet. with tesco and super stores selling new appliances it aint looking good for future, had new f/frezzer delivered by currys top floor. ther doin 20 drops aday of new appliances shows you how stuff thats getin scraped mmmm

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