Ridge Monkey advice

Milly Molly · Nov 6, 2021

Hi everyone

I am planning to buy a Ridge Monkey with detachable handles from the club shop, but I wanted a little bit of advice. We are a family of four (two teenagers) - should we go for one Ridge Monkey Connect XL or two? What does everyone think of the Connect Combi & Steamer set? I can't decide between:

1 x XL
2 x XL
1 x XL & 1 x Combi & Steamer set

TIA

Mandy

66tim99 · Nov 6, 2021

Milly Molly said:
Hi everyone

I am planning to buy a Ridge Monkey with detachable handles from the club shop, but I wanted a little bit of advice. We are a family of four (two teenagers) - should we go for one Ridge Monkey Connect XL or two? What does everyone think of the Connect Combi & Steamer set? I can't decide between:

1 x XL

2 x XL

1 x XL & 1 x Combi & Steamer set

TIA

Mandy

I’ve no experience of the steamer, but the XL isn’t as large as I expected. 2 x XL would let you use both burners and feed all 4 more quickly

Stu@rt · Nov 6, 2021

66tim99 said:
I’ve no experience of the steamer, but the XL isn’t as large as I expected. 2 x XL would let you use both burners and feed all 4 more quickly

Agreed, we have 2. One for each burner

GillianC · Nov 6, 2021

Stu@rt said:
Agreed, we have 2. One for each burner

2 XL definitely needed for a family of 4! I need 1 XL on my own

Milly Molly · Nov 7, 2021

Thanks everyone. I was leaning towards 2 pans. Does anyone have a Combi one? Would you recommend?

Hawthorn37 · Nov 13, 2021

We use an XL and agree that you could do with 2 for a family - heating pizza etc. No experience of the Combi, however and to expand your options to consider, we used a Multi Purpose Pan and Griddle Set, and it’s brilliant! the lid does interchange with the XL, but we found it was great to cook things like stews, sauté potatoes, even beans and soup. The lid stops all the mess of cooking, and can be used to grill food like meat before adding to a stew.

Charlotterobin · Nov 13, 2021

I don’t wish to cause a big fight; I wouldn’t recommend at all I’m sorry to say... The spring and button fell out and the pan fell off while I held the handle. Fortunately there was no injury

Anthony1 · Nov 13, 2021

Milly Molly said:
Hi everyone

I am planning to buy a Ridge Monkey with detachable handles from the club shop, but I wanted a little bit of advice. We are a family of four (two teenagers) - should we go for one Ridge Monkey Connect XL or two? What does everyone think of the Connect Combi & Steamer set? I can't decide between:

1 x XL

2 x XL

1 x XL & 1 x Combi & Steamer set

TIA

Mandy

Interesting. I have just taken ours out of the van. We must be the only people on earth who don't use it. My wife, who is a truly excellent cook, manages quite well without it. We use the Tefal set with the removable handle.

tedgina · Nov 13, 2021

Charlotterobin said:
I don’t wish to cause a big fight; I wouldn’t recommend at all I’m sorry to say... The spring and button fell out and the pan fell off while I held the handle. Fortunately there was no injury

That happened to us but a bit of glue sorted it out not done it since this should not put people off buying one

GrahamB · Nov 13, 2021

Charlotterobin said:
I don’t wish to cause a big fight; I wouldn’t recommend at all I’m sorry to say... The spring and button fell out and the pan fell off while I held the handle. Fortunately there was no injury

Same here, but got new handles under warranty. I think they had a bad batch.

Qnapper · Nov 13, 2021

We cook all sorts on ours, frozen chips cook well and are great in a bread sandwich.

GrahamB · Nov 13, 2021

Anthony1 said:
Interesting. I have just taken ours out of the van. We must be the only people on earth who don't use it. My wife, who is a truly excellent cook, manages quite well without it. We use the Tefal set with the removable handle.

We have both. I like the Ridgemonkey for some things - toasties and fryups mainly.

BeagleMum · Nov 13, 2021

Milly Molly said:
Thanks everyone. I was leaning towards 2 pans. Does anyone have a Combi one? Would you recommend?

We have the Combi and 2 of the XL.
We find having this combination covers everything for us.

Milly Molly · Nov 13, 2021

Hawthorn37 said:
We use an XL and agree that you could do with 2 for a family - heating pizza etc. No experience of the Combi, however and to expand your options to consider, we used a Multi Purpose Pan and Griddle Set, and it’s brilliant! the lid does interchange with the XL, but we found it was great to cook things like stews, sauté potatoes, even beans and soup. The lid stops all the mess of cooking, and can be used to grill food like meat before adding to a stew.

Great - thank you. I'll have a look at that one.

Milly Molly · Nov 13, 2021

BeagleMum said:
We have the Combi and 2 of the XL.
We find having this combination covers everything for us.

That's interesting. Do you have any other pans or just the Ridge Monkeys?

BeagleMum · Nov 13, 2021

Milly Molly said:
That's interesting. Do you have any other pans or just the Ridge Monkeys?

No others just a kettle

Rascal1 · Nov 14, 2021

Anthony1 said:
Interesting. I have just taken ours out of the van. We must be the only people on earth who don't use it. My wife, who is a truly excellent cook, manages quite well without it. We use the Tefal set with the removable handle.

No. Not the only one..

Ch1pbutty · Nov 14, 2021

We have 3 x ridge monkies (incl steamer) + seatosummit pan set which takes up minimal space. (The Mrs is veggie so we tend to use more pans each meal).