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BIG BIG Range Cooker.

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I wired up a big range cooker today in a new house. 14kW ish. A 32 Amp 6.0mm2 circuit. Final meter of T&E in 4.0mm2. The big worry is that we could not find a cooker switch on the wall anywhere, just the cooker connection plate. Perhaps not needed by the Regs. nowadays, but nice to turn off when cleaning the cooker, servicing it or in case of emergency, or last thing at night to stop children fiddling.


I warned the owner that it is not a good idea to turn on all ovens and hobs at once.


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    Over fifty years ago my mum and dad went to a country house clearance auction, actually at the house with the auctioneer and bidders standing on the lawn bidding.


    My mum and dad bought double cooker, it was literally two cookers side by side in one case with two ovens and grilles as well as eight ring hobs.


    Having bought it my dad took us all to the local sand and gravel merchants where he borrowed a Morris Minor pickup to go back and get the cooker with me riding on the back of this pickup with my brothers and the cooker.


    This beast of a cooker worked fine apart from one problem, at the auction my mother also bought a huge aluminium jam kettle. She filled the jam kettle  with strawberries and sugar and put on a hob ring, but there was no sign of the jam getting hot, however there was a dripping sound.


    The heat had built up hob ring to over 660 degrees and the aluminium reflector under it melted rather than the heat going into the jam kettle. 


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    Over fifty years ago my mum and dad went to a country house clearance auction, actually at the house with the auctioneer and bidders standing on the lawn bidding.


    My mum and dad bought double cooker, it was literally two cookers side by side in one case with two ovens and grilles as well as eight ring hobs.


    Having bought it my dad took us all to the local sand and gravel merchants where he borrowed a Morris Minor pickup to go back and get the cooker with me riding on the back of this pickup with my brothers and the cooker.


    This beast of a cooker worked fine apart from one problem, at the auction my mother also bought a huge aluminium jam kettle. She filled the jam kettle  with strawberries and sugar and put on a hob ring, but there was no sign of the jam getting hot, however there was a dripping sound.


    The heat had built up hob ring to over 660 degrees and the aluminium reflector under it melted rather than the heat going into the jam kettle. 


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