Mischief Managed
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- Mischief Managed II
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- 1992 Tollycraft 44 CPMY
Buying a new one this weekend. Should I get the Dickinson Mediterranean or the Force 10?
Buying a new one this weekend. Should I get the Dickinson Mediterranean or the Force 10?
Why did you decide on a 3 burner? We bought the 3-burner Force 10 and wished we had purchased the 4, not because we use all 4, but because you can fit two 10" pans on diagonal burners on the 4 burner. On the 3 burner, you can't even fit a 10" and an 8" without them getting in the way of each other.
I have a Mediterranean 3 burner, the large burner is so hot it's almost unusable for anything but boiling water in large pots, even on it's lowest settings. Oven works great, the smaller burners are the only ones I use, quality is very nice. I have had it for two years now, never had any issues with it at all.
That's interesting. I'm rebuilding my galley and looking for a new stove. I was planning on the Dickinson because of the higher btu burners, thinking that was better. I might now have to reconsider.
With too much heat, you can easily add a diffuser: https://www.amazon.com/Diffuser-Sto...ocphy=1021925&hvtargid=pla-426943592114&psc=1
With too little heat, you are kinda out of out of luck.
I have the 3 burner Force 10/Eno stovetop.
Put it in 7 years ago and it has been great.
The large burner will boil a large pot of water for pasta, crabs, etc in a reasonable time and the small burner is almost too hot to simmer anything on, but fine for low heat on large pots/pans.
Opposite problem for me, the large burner is too hot at it's lowest settings to simmer, or even to fry eggs in a pan. It's great if you need to get a large pot boiling quickly though. The small burners get all the use for daily cooking and boil a coffee pot quickly as well.
I would say expectations are a big issue here
If you are quite the cook and used to nice equipment at home, then many boat stovetops and especially ovens may leave you dissatisfied.
I can't complain about the quality of the Force 10, but it's certainly not as big or capable as a home setup.
I would say expectations are a big issue here
If you are quite the cook and used to nice equipment at home, then many boat stovetops and especially ovens may leave you dissatisfied.
I can't complain about the quality of the Force 10, but it's certainly not as big or capable as a home setup.
I just don't understand why boat stuff has to be worse than house stuff.
It has to worse than house stuff or they would charge 6 times what it's worth instead of only double.....
We have a Force 10 3-Burner. Fitting multiple larger pans can be an issue, but there’s only so much real estate to deal with so we just, well, deal with it. Regarding stovetop temps, they do get nice and hot. In fact simmering can be problematic (can’t bring the temp down low enough), so we finally bought one of those diffusers which makes a big difference.
My wife hates the oven. It only gets up to 320 degrees. But we have a toaster oven that will broil, so we’re covered. She’s wanted a new stove/oven since we moved aboard nearly 7 years ago, so I’ll be interested to follow this thread and see if there are any other recommendations.
So, we use an induction cook top and a table top convection oven - not a combination microwave-convection oven. I bake bread, have successfully roasted prime ribs and turkey breasts, and my wife bakes cookies every week. Pretty much, with this combination, we can do anything aboard that we used to do before we became live aboards.
When we boat our boat, I had wanted to install propane. We had already thrown out the original Princess electric which we absolutely hated. We opted for induction, actually gave it a try first with a True Induction table top two-burner unit. We are so glad we opted for the setup we have.
Buying a new one this weekend. Should I get the Dickinson Mediterranean or the Force 10?