Oven buying HOW???

Thanks, but why do 3kW have to be hard wired?

Curry's do one that "must be hardwired into a 13A fused spur" according to their blurb. Now my microwave is programmable and has a real time clock, so surely the only other reason for a maintained power source is to avoid appliance testing?

The other point about going for max kW is that I don't really think efficiency is too important in my kitchen. The oven is virtually idle in summer and I much prefer a rapid warm up even if a little of the heat is lost to the room.

So basically the best I have found is a 2.4 kW Candy and as I found when I put a thermocouple into my Dutch Oven the oven preheat times quoted by cooks can be a tad short on the ideal, another 600 W would I'm sure cut the wait time down as the oven pumps out heat yet cooks damn all for an hour.

Lost isn't an appropriate word though, because the heat escaping reduces the energy input that goes into warming the room

Well start with Ohm who simply states that current through a resistance is proportional to the Voltage, although it may be Voltage across a resistor being proportional to current.

Power isn't strictly speaking electrical, it can be produced from gas, coal or horses :-). If you look up W = I^2 R and get to grips with how that is developed it should provide a nice mathematically convenient answer.

With your second point, you are again tying a different parameter into a "volume"?

Mass can only be represented directly as an equivalent to volume if it's pure water or something of equal SG.

1 litre of water equals 1kg, a dashed convenient little fact that was wasted on the poor divils with their hankering for all things imperial across the pond.

Thank you, that I suppose explains fully why so many manufacturers don't give a Wattage.

Cooking my EU housebrick until soft and squishy starts to make sense now :-)

I thought I was missing some fundamental bit of information out.

Many thanks for your help.

It seems there is a bit of interest in the subject although the replies have dried up.

I would like to mention a young lady at Harvey Norman though who pointed out the wattage label inside the door on each and every oven.

It's not the first time that I have found their advice above and beyond the "box shifters".

Alas I bought an Indecent in the end from Soundstore as HN had a limited stock of higher power units without the extra electronics that ends up flashing away and needing a clock reset after the numerous power cuts we have here.

Now why on earth is such an important feature like power relegated to a label inside the oven door when one of the most exciting features of buying an appliance is wondering if the little wheel in the electricity meter is going to fly apart like an underrated grinding wheel :-)

As far as the power going into the food or green lines on a label goes, the fact that a 2.75 kW oven can go into a restricted albeit ventilated in a limited way space, suggests it has to be pretty efficient. I wouldn't feel confident leaving one of my outside lights in the minimum space required in the oven installation diagrams.