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HISTORY & INNOVATION

The first Everhot Cooker was invented more than 40 years ago, here at 13th century Coaley Mill in Gloucestershire where you will still find our Showroom and Head Office overlooking the millpond.

The millpond is a wildlife haven, providing a home to otters, kingfishers, swans and many other birds.

The millpond is a wildlife haven, providing a home to otters, kingfishers, swans and many other birds.

Over the years our site has been utilised for a number of different purposes, indeed until the middle of the 20th century it was the site of a foundry business that employed around 80 local people making shovels and forks.

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In the mid 1970s inventor and engineer Ossie Goring was concerned by how much energy his heat storage cooker was using and, living at the water mill, he decided to set about creating an environmentally friendly electric range cooker which could run off the water turbine he had installed. Ossie wanted a heat storage range that would provide background warmth in his kitchen with a very low requirement for energy without the ‘spikes’ that normally occur when switching on an electric oven or ring.

A few years and many prototypes later, Ossie had perfected a ‘trickle-feed’ design, which allowed his new cooker to be powered by the small intermittent flow of electricity provided by the mill’s turbine. To this day, an Everhot’s peak electricity demand is a fraction of that needed by other range cookers, hence its compatibility with renewable energy sources like solar panels.

Workers at Coley Mill
Coaley Mill as a spade and shovel manufacturers in 1900.
Old Advert
The first Everhot brochure in 1979.
Coaley Mill Buildings
Coaley Mill in 1979.

Ossie’s breakthrough not only enabled the first Everhot to run off his water turbine, but also a standard 13amp plug. Initially, the Everhot was sold in small quantities whilst gently evolving prior to its full commercial launch in 1995. Whilst the first cooker ever produced is still in daily use, the evolution continues and our philosophy remains unchanged.

For the last 25 years Ossie’s son, Guy Goring, has continued to ensure that our cookers set the pace in terms of innovation, efficiency, design and functionality. Building the business into a real British engineering success story. Sustainability remains deeply embedded in our DNA and we never stop trying to find ways to improve our cookers’ efficiency.

At the core of all this industry lies the water of the River Cam, which flows into our millpond and beneath our showroom, and we still harness this to produce our power. It is for this very reason that the Everhot was originally invented.

We are constantly seeking to improve the Everhot without ever compromising on quality.

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