The men arrived at 5.  By 5.30 they had already left!  I was expecting it to take longer.

It’s brand, spanking new!  It shines.  All stainless steel and glass.  Out of place, in a way but that’s not why I bought it anyway.  It won’t last (the super shiny bit) – or maybe I’ll try to keep it like that.  Well, I will try.

I thought, for a horrible moment, after the man had gone (of course) that there had been some mistake.  The numbers I was expecting were from 1 to 6 – not 150 to 275.  But, no, it’s OK after all.

It’s a little wider than the last one.  But that’s all to the good.  More room and I like room, especially for cooking.  See this is turning into a food blog or cooking blog or something similar.  For I am talking about my brand new cooker.

So, let’s see what makes it better.

I now have proper temperature control on the oven.  I have missed that so much.  Now I can cook things at the correct temperature instead of guessing.

It is both bigger on the hob and in the oven.  A baking tray I had bought some time ago but would never fit in the last oven fits easily in this.  Now I can use all four burners on the hob without having to have half the pans halfway off the cooker.

I do not have to use one of those hand-held electronic ignition lighters.  It lights automatically. The oven also has a light.

It has a grill (as an integral part of the oven), something I kept missing with the old one.

It has some special ventilation fan that keeps the outside much cooler than the inside and, so, won’t ruin everything next to it.  However, it is still gas, which I love and, for me, is the only way to cook both on the hob and in the oven.

It is beautiful.  It makes me want to do things.  But that is for tomorrow.

It also happens to be a Smeg – which, of course, is the last name in kitchen appliances.

Now, all I need is a decent fridge and a proper fitted kitchen and I will be done.  But those things can wait and are not so important as the oven.

I am a very, very happy person.

I expect to have fun with this object.