* It's a Gas Gas Gas Man . .

Advantages: A very good cooker.
Disadvantages: Not a lot.

...This model, of gas cooker, the 600 SIDODLa is a free standing, stove, with a double oven plus a grill, and also has an automatic programmer. This model is made to suit natural gas, and can also be converted to take LPG, simply by using different jets. You also get an LED for the programmer, which displays the current time as a bonus. I managed to "Scrounge" this cooker from the "Outlaws" second hand, and it has proved to be a little Beaut. It came with a small, but adequate instruction manual. This is just an ordinary cooker, but of course there are two ovens, the upper one is also the grill, and the lower one is the main oven. You can of course use them both together if you require. The ovens have two lights in each of them, and the doors are glass. The main oven is fitted with a fan. The width is 600 mm, average in other words...

smudgeybabes 21.01.2009 (28.02.2009) · Read review
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Throw out that old gas stove!

Advantages: Lightweight, easy to use, fuel and time efficent
Disadvantages: hard to clean

...The Trangia is a well established portable cooking device brand - Don't accept any Rip-offs.! The Trangia is an all-round good buy - every minute detail maximises the efficiency of the cooking: Beginning with the heart; the methylated spirit burner. The brass "cup" will hold approximately 150 ml of meths allowing you to cook for a good half hour without having to refill - Don't try and refill it when you've already lit it whatever you do! - Take it from my own personal experience - there will be bacon everywhere! Right through to the frying pan everything will cook quickly and easily - My personal favourite being bacon on my 25 series. You'll be able to cook 10 - 15 rashers of bacon only using one burner full of meths which is handy when you're cooking for four. The Trangia stove comes in a range of sizes and materials: If you...

mattg23 18.02.2006 · Read review
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Bistro Stove - now you're cooking with gas!

Advantages: robust, solid, not expensive, reliable
Disadvantages: no good for backpacking - too large & heavy

...The Bistro 250 stove from Camping Gas is an excellent piece of equipment. We bought one this year from Argos at just £26.99 which included a gas cartridge (these normally cost around £2.50 or £1.95 for a non genuine equivalent cartdridge. The gas cartridge is easily fitted and can be removed between uses - an added safety feature. It also has a clever mechanism which automatically ejects the cartridge (thereby extinguishing the stove) if the cartridge gets too hot - this can apparently occur if you use a pan which is too big, although ours is HUGE and we had no problem at all! The power of this baby is a massive 2700W which compares to a measly 1100W from our old stove. It bols up our kettle of water in less than a couple of minutes and toasts bread on our camp toaster almost faster than we ca load it. I recommend this...

djhendra 21.08.2001 · Read review
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British Gas

Advantages: gas seems fine
Disadvantages: telephone nightmare

...British Gas I felt I had to write this review after having to deal with this company for the first time and being pretty disappointed. Having moved into a new flat and coming from a flat where all the bills were included in the rent meaning never having to deal with all these companies and now having to set up all the new accounts for things such as electricity, gas and water I found this company particularly tiresome to deal with. We were meant to phone up on the day we moved in to the new flat and pass over all the readings on the meters and the correct information to set up new accounts and the such like. I had no problems at all when contacting the water supplier and the electricity supplier but when it came to the gas this was more of a problem that I could of dreamed. After phoning up the main line for British...

newby2 26.05.2007 · Read review
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Stoves 61GDO

Advantages: Dual oven, easy to clean
Disadvantages: Gas cut off re-instates

...toddler is around and worse still, if the door is shut the gas is automatically cuts off but when opened again it comes back but does not ignite so there is potential for quite a nasty accident if you are not careful. My other dislike is the knobs. One split after 14 months so I had to buy a new one at £11.75 which took 4 weeks to arrive and now another has split. I would buy another Stoves cooker but only if they have improved the things I don't like...

Howesmob 24.10.2008 · Read review
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Money burned by British Gas

Advantages: Large company, synergy, many products offered.
Disadvantages: Price hikes, deparments don't talk to each other

...UPDATE 28.11.08 When I wrote the review below, prices had gone up by 50% since January 2008, with British Gas agents profusely blaming rise in oil prices for rises in both Gas and Electricity. Fair point? By July oil was at a record $147 a barrel at its peak. Since then oil has collapsed to a 2 year low of $52 a barrel and still falling, I spoke to British Gas about this -- they say that gas is already in the system paid for at the old prices! On Radio 4's Today program, they continued along this line when pressed about price rising the moment oil goes up, but stubbornly high when oil comes down. Remember, not a penny has come off gas or electricity - yet when the first wave of oil price rises began in January 2008, gas prices went up by 15% and a further rise of 35% in August. It is now five months on, and British Gas...

makro74 31.07.2008 (28.11.2008) · Read review
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  British Gas make a complete hash.

Advantages: None that I can think of...oh..they have the word "British" in their name
Disadvantages: Customer Service (lack of), Prices, Attitude...oh everything really

...The name "British Gas" always had that comfortable ,solid feel to it. To me it always invoked a sense of something reliable, but probably expensive. Quality service that wouldn't let you down. A company you could trust. Ok, probably a bit pricey, but you knew they'd come up trumps for you. In a way, something akin to the AA (the so called "4th Emergency Service). Best engineers, best service, best of British.. and all that. Hey, I can already hear you sniggering ?. Now I admit I wasn't a customer of BG, as an adult, so my impressions of them were not first hand. These were just memories of living with the parents and what I envisaged when I heard the name. It just had that good wholesome feel to it. When you needed an emergency Gas engineer, you looked in the phone book for British Gas - not some local 'cowboy' Oh how...

eldergill 18.11.2005 · Read review
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British gas

Advantages: NOTHING AT ALL
Disadvantages: everything!

...When I moved into my flat there were two reasons I decided to choose British Gas as my Gas supplier. Firstly there was already a British Gas Pre Payment meter installed, and secondly I chose them because they were a well known name. Well, if only I?d done some research first I could have saved myself a whole lot of bother. My first problem was actually finding a number to ring to get the supply connected. I tried the Yellow Pages and the Thompson local, but although they had a full page add on the back of the Yellow Pages it was for buying a fireplace, not connecting the gas supply. Never mind I thought, I?ll give it a ring anyway, and maybe they?ll be able to give me the number I need. Anyway, they put me on hold for about 10 minutes and then the woman (sounding very huffy) gave me the number I needed. So I rang the number...

pink_champagne 06.10.2003 · Read review
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British gas poor service

Advantages: breach of contract
Disadvantages: poor service

...ANVER JEEVANJEE Email: anver.jeevanjee@virgin.net 24 January 2009 British Gas Home Care Membership Office Bothwell Road Uddington GLASSGOW G71 7UD BREACH OF CONTRACT HOME CARE REF: 1907592 1878071- Ref: CHSR/M I have tried desperately to contact you to complain about your appalling service but regret your call centre is unable give us access to your direct customer service email address or fax number. I found it impossible to access you on-line or through your website. Many in our age group would not even attempt to contact you via the website even if it was user friendly to senior citizens or anyone. All you website has is numerous negative feedback from your dissatisfied customers. Your 0845 numbers are a pain - one has to hold on between 35 and 75 minutes to get a reply and even when one gets a reply it is...

adamjeebhai 11.02.2009 · Read review
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British Gas

Advantages: nationally known company
Disadvantages: no sense of cutomer service or reward for loyal customers

...well british gas what can i say! i have been a british gas customer for 8 years now. i have a 2 bedroomed house and 2 children. i have a gas combi boiler but no gas fire and no gas hob ( so the only time i use gas is for hot water and heating) my payments for gas and electricity have been roughly the same for years now. i paid approx 25 for gas and 36 for electric ( a month by direct debit) i always get a rebate in the summer on both ( roughly £30) so i was more than happy with this account, i never missed a payment and never had any trouble. well recently i was alarmed to receive a letter telling me that my gas was going up to £49 and my electric £64 a MONTH! i phoned them and asked why and was told that it was a 'restructuring' and could not be changed. i obviously was not happy and immediately cancelled my direct debits i...

MrsTabs 28.05.2007 · Read review
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