Topic: Cheap Tandoor Oven ?

[Peripatetic Phil]

The above product looks very expensive compared to the Lidl model and it's probably not guaranteed for 3 years like the Lidl one, either.

A word of advice : always Sellotape the Lidl receipt to the item in question -- they will always honour their warranty (even at day 364 of year 3) but only if you can produce the receipt.  No other "proof of purchase" will be accepted, not even an itemised credit card bill.

** Phil.

[solarsplace]

Considering the thing costs

[George]

I just found this old leaflet extract from 2009 when the price had gone back down to the GBP19.99 which I paid c2006.

AND this one (2009) is fan assisted - it says so in the advert - so perhaps my earlier model (2006) is fan assisted after all. I think it shows what a rip-off the GBP100 one is.

[commis]

Hi
The YouTube vid shows the model from the OP, the top of the oven is one large hot plate.

[Peripatetic Phil]

The YouTube vid shows the model from the OP, the top of the oven is one large hot plate.

I would go along with that : the photograph from Ebay and the Youtube video at 00:00:47 do indeed seem remarkably similar !

[George]

The YouTube vid shows the model from the OP, the top of the oven is one large hot plate.

What a good idea, and a facility that I'll now be adding to my Lidl oven. I  always knew the top of the oven gets very hot but I didn't think of using it to pre-heat pizza dough or anything else. I have some thin, non-stick, flexible sheeting which I can use in between the painted surface of the oven's top plate and a pizza or whatever. The heat goes straight up from the upper heating element. There's no insulation in between.

[coogan]

George. You could place an old Rovers biscuit tin on top and then have a double oven. Or puncture some holes in the tin, put in some hickory wood chippings, utilise the grill rack from the lower oven and then you could slowly smoke slices of beef whilst your Yorkshire pudding cooks beneath. Or buy a Nipoori oven, discard the bottom halve, locate the top cone on to your unit and then you would have an electric tandoor to tikka your chicken whilst cooking naan breads in the lower oven at the same time - I can just see the patent office rubbing their hands already.

Bon idea.