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Stumbled upon another 80s advert from ESB (Irish power company).

It's a bit of a soppy ad about either going back to what has to be grandma's house in Ireland in around 1984. She does have a nice halogen cooker + some kind of Creda oven.



When old monopolies advertise, you get weird but classic results.
 
I just thought I'd add to this,
My parents had a Tricity president cooker which they purchased second hand, my mother loved it. I can't tell you much other than she liked that it had a fanned main oven, spiral rings and one of them could be adjusted to the size of the pan you were using, and also the grill had the ability to have half of the element isolated if you were only cooking small amounts of food. My mother replaced it because it was starting to head on its way out in 1996 (I think) with a basic Creda electric cooker, which she hated. The Creda featured four solid plates, and a traditional non fan assisted oven, she didn't like the hob which she found very uncontrollable and likened it to cooking on my grandmothers Rayburn, it was very easy to burn food to the bottom of a pan or for a pot to boil over, she also found the oven to be a bit hit or miss and slower than that of the Tricity.
The Creda got put into a flat that my grandmother used to let out in 2000 and my mother purchased a new cooker. She purchased a Tricity Bendix Strata cooker with a ceramic hob, fan assisted oven and catalytic liners as well as a grill which doubled as a secondary smaller oven, and this cooker was simply fantastic and very well made, I learned to cook on it and its made many a Christmas dinner and birthday cake, the cooker still works and we gave it to my sister in 2016 when her Indesit cooker (very basic solid hob, traditional oven) broke, we then upgraded to a Belling FSE60DOP cooker in stainless steel.
The Belling has a ceramic hob with one zone that you can use half of if you are using a smaller pan, a grill which you can isolate half of and use as a secondary oven, and a multifunctional main oven.
The overall cooker is pretty solid, however I think that main oven is very difficult to clean because of the multifunction aspect; the oven has the following functions: defrost, fan, base heat, top heat, base heat and top heat, base heat top heat and fan, grilling and fanned grilling. Because of the grill element, its difficult to clean any splatters in the roof of the oven, but overall its a decent oven but certain aspects of it, I do think our last cooker was better.

Sorry that was so long winded :)
 
Thank you

for humo(u)ring me about the Baby Belling.

Two more things I should like to know about cookers....

First, I love BBC GoodFood magazine. It's not too easily found at newsagents here in my part of the States......anyway, a few years ago there was an ad for
OvenNu "Oven Valeting Service." We have high heat self-cleaning cycles, and you have people who come and clean your oven. Did it make a go? Was it/is it very expensive? If it still exists would one of you ring them up and ask for me if they do Baby Belling valeting, and if they do, how much?

Second......would someone be so kind as to insert the British Gas TV ads...either the one with Madeline Bell singing about "High Speed Gas-simmering the pot" or the "Cookability" one, or both, please?

Thank you

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Moffat?

Nope, its a Creda - several of the same cookers appear over and over again. It was a thermostatically controlled oven with a rotesserie. Other versions had spiral ring hob and some had the main oven with a fan

From the top
1 Tricity President
2 Creda Topline
3 Belling Classic Yellow
4 Belling Classic Executive
5 Belling Formula Split Level
6 Creda Europa/Belling Formula/Tricity
7 Ceramic hob looks like a Moffat
8 Belling Classic again
9 Tricity Contessa/Creda Carefree/Belling Classic
10 Tricity Tiara/Creda Cavalier/Belling Compact
11 Creda Topline again
12 Belling Classic again
13 Belling Formula again
14 Creda Topline front left/Belling Compact rear left/Creda Horizon 22 Front right
 
Would anyone know what Hyacinth's cookers were by any chance? I am attaching a link to a GIF which shows what was her first cooker, I believe. You can see it has a see through piece over the controls.

The second image I attached directly shows the third cooker she had, and in between there was a black one but I think it was only in an episode or two, I don't have any pictures of it. It's not the best picture but the best I could capture.

Daisy had an electric cooker with coils and I think the controls were on the back and up higher than the surface be a foot or so. Her kitchen was only seen in two episodes and it may not have been the same cooker in both shots.


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As for halogen cermaic tops, we did have them for a brief time here in the States during the 90s and possibly late 80s. I don't believe they were very popular as regular radiant ceramic tops. I do remember Jenn Air offering some halogen cartridges for their cooktops and ranges, and Amana had a range where I think two of the four burners were halogen and the other two radiant.

Convection ovens in household didn't catch on here until around the 80s I would guess. Jenn Air had some in the mid-late 80s and I know GE Profile ranges and ovens had them on the TOL models around the mid-late 1990s. Possibly others did as well but today, they are mostly on the high end brands and otherwise only seen on very TOL ranges from common brands like Whirlpool, GE, Kenmore and Frigidaire.
 

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