Gas cookers in France.........

[Admiral]

Has anyone out there in the great wide abyss, got experience of bringing an English gas cooker to France?

When we first moved here we were told we couldn't bring our English range cooker from London because the gas jets in France are completely different from those employed by our French chums.

Believing ex-pat folk lore we left the beloved machine in England - much tears and sick etc etc.

Now our French bought - and French made cooker - has blown up for the second time.

After extensive investigation, I'm told they don't make spares for the ruddy thing anymore so we new a new cooker.

Sooooo..........is it possible to import a "proper" cooker from England that will work in France?

We're talking mains gas hob and electric oven.

[little Al]

Simply.............yes! We have a range cooker/double oven (Leisure)......all electric from Gb...............one year ago friends bought the identical model but with bottled gas /electric ............problem free.

[Fred]

Depending if you have Town gas or bottled you may need to change the little jets on the burners. When you buy a gas cooker here they usually come with the town gas ones fitted and most have a spare set for bottled gas that you just need to swap over.

So if yours was originally on town gas in the UK and you want to run it on bottled gas here then you will need to get new jets. You can find them on Amazon, Ebay, etc or from your friendly oven bloke. They are easy to change, you just need a small socket.

[Admiral]

Simply.............yes! We have a range cooker/double oven (Leisure)......all electric from Gb...............one year ago friends bought the identical model but with bottled gas /electric ............problem free.

Ta ever so for that.  Problem seems to be solved especially if your friends brought out a gas hob/electric oven combo and found it worked.

Looking at the post from Fred, which as ever, is highly informative, do you know if your friends had to change over gas jets once the cooker was in France?

Questions, questions.  Won't this bloke ever go away????????

[little Al]

I`ll email and find out...........incidentally, they had it shipped to an address in Gloucestershire (free UK delivery) to a bloke who lives at Azat le Ris, who regularly comes over with a flat backed lorry.......and for a reasonable amount brings (non delicate) items over......so things like cookers (on pallets) are ideal.

[little Al]

Yes, they did have to change the burners.

[Admiral]

Thanks little Al.

After years spent listening to tales of woe, gloom and doom from ex-pats who seem to know everything but in reality just make it up they go along, I now have the answer.

Bless you my child and other felicitations.

[Fred]

Another success for Around Montmorillon.

Well done Gang keep it up.