To want to throttle Aga owners

[Cleggy36]

when they go on about how lovely and warm their kitchens are at this time of year. FFS, if I left the electric oven on 24/7 in my kitchen it would be lovely and warm, but would people be saying "ooh have you been to Cleggy's house, his kitchen's really cosy"? No. They'd be saying "have you heard about that idiot cleggy, he leaves his oven on all night to heat his kitchen."

It's the same thing. Except that my fuels bills would probably still be smaller. Here endeth the rant.

apple wouldnt call it a moment, I have a pink chandelier in my kitchen. My OH has to duck on his way to the garden. But thats his fault for being so stupidly tall

I am not sure they make the pink anymore but STOVEs are the cheap end of the market. Not quite Beko but nowhere like Bosch or Aga.

Actually the make is irrelevant ITS PINK

I really don't see the point of gas Agas. A gas hob is such a brilliantly flexible way to cook, why on earth would you want to use gas to heat an Aga?

I'd LOVE an Aga

I do have a nice so knwoing my luck the LL would want the house back as soon as it was installed.

I just like cooking and all thatb really but I grew up in a house where there was only a portable gas fire and the cooker rings to ehat it, and where jeans were defrosted in winter over the fire of a morning if Mum left them on line, so maybe there is a secret appeal LOL

I like it, I wouldn't have it but it's out there man

pink eh

now look, I thought stoves were alright. They were alright 15 yrs ago when I bought mine and in fact they were quaite naice. Where did it all go wrong if they are now the cheap end?

Tsk.

I do have a nice large kitchen

A cold one mind: gert gap around door doesn't help!

I have an Aga version of a range cooker. Looks like an Aga but without the heating. Fab

plus I like calling it a stove

sancti, we used to have our pjs over the fireguard and the washing in the winter

we watched tomorrow's world in a cloud of steam

I have an Aga (cream) and I love it. It's so nice going into the kitchen on a winter's morning when the rest of the house is like an igloo. I do turn mine off from May to October though, and use a normal fan oven.

I dry and press loads of laundry on it too.

Yes you are my love, it is just not worth getting steamed up about (dreadful, inexcusable pun)

They are not cheap as in tacky. They are cheap as in not 10 grand

I stuck my fingers in my ears and went lalalala re the price anyway. I saw it and it had to be miiiinnnne. It was bought as part of the kitchen package.

YOu can get ones with huge orchid and daisy photographs on them.

My ideal would be one with a massive pink butterfly on it. How lovely would that be?

No one answer that - let me dream.

I couldn't cope with an Aga - I have noticed (probably my age) I am already too 'warm' of an evening

We had an Aga (well actually a Rayburn but called it an Aga) in our old house. We are not rich. Aga just came with the house and there was a large kitchen.

I do miss it. It was lovely and warm. Did have bigger heating bills but we too turned it off in the "summer" and used ordinary oven instead.

It was red. And nice.

thanks mrsdv, have just realised how hyacinth I really am in my heart

FellatioNelson - one winter instead of turning the Aga on just leave the fan oven on the whole time. I bet your kitchen will be just as warm and you'll have much smaller bills. As per my OP, however, your friends will all laugh at you.

We've got one, well a rayburn, its our only heating. Its fuelled by wood. Bloody hard work and spend alot of time trudging up and down to woodshed in the dark.

Needless to say we haven't lit it yet and no we aren't posh. Hard as nails though!!

Gosh what do you do in summer it must be baking?

Exactamundo.

Something that looks like an aga but can be turned on and off instantly, that's what you want.

ThefirstmrsDeVere I heart your chav Aga! I'd like either a green or cream one though. Any colour Aga would do me really.

Hang on - this is a 'Describe your fantasy Aga' thread isn't it? What? No? Oh, sorry Cleggy.

If I did have a real Aga, I would most definitely boast about it and invite Cleggy round to sample the warmth, conviviality and delicous toast of the fatted calf superior stove in my kitchen.

Alwaysworthchecking - but you still don't have one, which makes you (even if reluctantly) one of the good guys.

i had a gas rayburn & electric oven for summer. even in the middle of winter the fuel bills were pretty low, so if you use them carefully you're not wasting money - e.g. we didn't need to put heat on in the 2 rooms above the kitchen, almost never used the drier, and learnt how to cook 'aga style' so you use the heat to the best advantage.

oh, and the kitchen was lovely & warm

We grew up in a drafty old tied cottage with an aga that ran on oil. It was the main source of hot water as well as supplying heating and the means for cooking, so it was on all the time. I don't ever remember my mum and dad complaining that it was expensive to run. My impression was the opposite, that it was cheap, but I suppose it might not be today.

I burnt my bum on one once.

When a woman I worked with moved into her extremely large Victorian home and remodelled the kitchen she included a fabulous dark blue Aga... cost £££'s. The joke was that it was only used to warm up the kitchen, children, wet towels, cats etc. She warmed up her M&S meals in the microwave.

Aga's are great - next door's heats our kitchen through the party wall all winter