Do you think I can use a Japan-made gas oven in the Philippines? Has anyone here brought stuff from their home countries?
There is a difference regards the type of gas that gas ovens run meaning it may be unwise to purchase an oven from abroad?
That my friend depends where you call Abroad, Spain for instance has exactly the same Bottled Gas as here Not going to split hairs over this But.............
I bought a Germania 4-burner gas stove with oven (complete stove as we know it, in other words). Bought it from Centrum Appliances for 19,000 pisos. And a gas bottle and regulator for around 4,000 pisos. Works very well - do roasts, casseroles (and anything with coriander...). Gas supply lasts about 3 months.
Sorry of this is off-topic but, I have to ask... I have noticed the Gas here smells like gasoline and sometimes it burns a sooty flame and smells similar to benzine/toluene like you smell in poor quality unleaded gasoline's, unlike the LPG Gas used in Australia. Would there be a danger using the local gas here in an enclosed oven where the fumes/soot might contaminate the foods being cooked? I know LPG is safe to use in Oz, but here it almost smells like it is a compressed liquid gasoline instead of the gas like we have back home that burns cleanly.
I could only answer this by putting a link up about a product I use and I would hazard a guess that most of the other suppliers are the same; Solane: Cooking with gas made safer and easier I am not really sure if it is off topic or not but I am sure one of the team will move it if it is but it was asked and now answered. Hope it satisfies your curiosity Brian. BTW we have a LA Germania 4 ring Cooker with fan Oven and never had a problem, in fact I have never heard of any problems from those I know that have Gas ranges.