limey wrote:

>
> "Peter Aitken" > wrote in message
> ...
>> "Edgar Iredale" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> After about 25 years it seems time to change our Carron Capri three
>>> electric cooker.
>>>
>>> I don't like fan ovens. They seem always to be dreadfully noisy and
>>> from experience long ago with industrial controlled environment
>>> ovens it was always the fans that failed first and frequently.
>>>
>>> Can anybody suggest a suitable replacement model either fanless or
>>> with a reliable quiet fan.
>>>
>>> Edgar
>>
>> I am not sure what you mean by "electric cooker" but our Dacor range
>> has fans for both convection and cooling and they are quite quiet and
>> have been trouble-free for many years.
>> --
>> Peter Aitken
>
> Electric cooker is the UK term for an electric range. I don't know if
> the Dacor is sold there.
>
> Dora

Thanks. Dora is right I'm in England and we still use the expression
"cooker" although "range" is starting to come in for wide cookers. To
me a range is a solid fuel cooker - Rayburn or Aga, etc.

I've just Googled(UK) for Dacor but it seems they are sufficiently
rare here that it would be inadvisable to buy one. Anyway I really
don't want a fan.

Part of the trouble is that suppliers here never seem able to switch on
the things they sell so it's quite impossible to judge the noise. In
other people's homes I notice that fan ovens always seem to make a loud
irritating roar. Much worse than an un-quietened PC.

Edgar