"Sorry to hear this; having never cooked with gas before I was rather looking forward to it..."

It's an old one and not very predicatable, hence the difficulty with roasting. When we moved in we had my mum and her hubby round for dinner and decided on a roast. So having been used to an electric oven that cooked to the minute I checked the bird as we had drinks to find it barely warm.

It took around four hours to cook and by the end we were completely rat-arsed and not hungry in the slightest. Back to an electric for me, albeit with a gas hob because there's no substitute to cooking over a flame.