ricgstevens
Assistant Cook
- Joined
- Mar 19, 2007
- Messages
- 4
Hi Everyone,
LOML and I are in the throes of working out what our dream kitchen should contain, appliance wise.
First - we love the look and performance of the Harley Davidsons or Hummers of the appliance world - namely Viking or Wolf. Big and chunky and mean looking things they are...
The problem with buying anything electrical from the USA is voltage. Why? We live in Australia. Your voltage is 110V whereas ours down under is 250V.
Currently we are looking very seriously at the a 48" Viking range either dual fuel or all gas. We managed to locate a dealer down here who has quite a number of dual fuel units that he is presently assessing for voltage conversion and approval from local authorities. Bottom line is, because of our voltage differences, there needs to be some modifications done on dual fuel units - and at this stage these ranges have not been formally approved.
He routinely sells all gas units and is encouraging us to go for all gas even though there might be a chance that I could buy one his working dual fuel units a slightly reduced price - but he won't guarantee them.
My question to you guys is - do gas ovens perform differently from electric ovens? If so, why? My wife does a lot of cake/cookie baking and is concerned that a gas oven might fall short performance wise compared to an electric oven.
Would love to hear from you...
Thanks in advance!!
Richard
Sydney
LOML and I are in the throes of working out what our dream kitchen should contain, appliance wise.
First - we love the look and performance of the Harley Davidsons or Hummers of the appliance world - namely Viking or Wolf. Big and chunky and mean looking things they are...
The problem with buying anything electrical from the USA is voltage. Why? We live in Australia. Your voltage is 110V whereas ours down under is 250V.
Currently we are looking very seriously at the a 48" Viking range either dual fuel or all gas. We managed to locate a dealer down here who has quite a number of dual fuel units that he is presently assessing for voltage conversion and approval from local authorities. Bottom line is, because of our voltage differences, there needs to be some modifications done on dual fuel units - and at this stage these ranges have not been formally approved.
He routinely sells all gas units and is encouraging us to go for all gas even though there might be a chance that I could buy one his working dual fuel units a slightly reduced price - but he won't guarantee them.
My question to you guys is - do gas ovens perform differently from electric ovens? If so, why? My wife does a lot of cake/cookie baking and is concerned that a gas oven might fall short performance wise compared to an electric oven.
Would love to hear from you...
Thanks in advance!!
Richard
Sydney