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.

We have one. In the winter DH, DD the dogs and I all cozy up to it. It's the only warm spot in our freezing cold but picturesque house.

we've got an gas fueled aga (in a rented house thouse though, so not technically mine) Ours does heating, hot water, clothes drying, kettle boiling and cooking and our gas bills are only marginally higher than when we had central heating.

However, I resent all aga owners with warm kitchens, because I don't! Somebody in their wisdom, installed it in the dining room. My kitchen is the coldest room in the house.

YABU.

You are dissing me (cream), my mum (white) and my late grandma (red). And my late great grandma too (light blue apparently).

Mine went out last night (bloody unreliable ATM, needs the engineer in) and my god the kitchen felt like a cave this morning. When one has flags on the floor they are essential.

In my next house I am going to break the family tradition and install underfloor heating and an S series fakey wakey Aga. My ancestors will turn in their graves.

I want thefirstmrsDeVeres kitchen

"A small, two-oven AGA running on gas will use approximately 425 kWh per week (22,100 kWh per year). The average standard gas oven and hob uses 580 kWh during a year, only 2.62% of the AGA's consumption.[5]

AGA's own figures for expected energy consumption for their two-oven AGA support this criticism,[6] suggesting consumption of 40 litres of kerosene or diesel, 60 litres of propane gas, 425 kWh of natural gas or 220 kWh for the electric models. This would indicate that the smallest two-oven gas AGA providing simple cooking functions (i.e. no water heating or central heating) consumes almost as much gas in a week as a standard gas oven/hob does in nine months".

From wiki - surely better ways to heat the kitchen in winter!

We had an Aga (duck egg). It was an absolute pain in the neck to cook on. So now it's been ripped out and repaced by a gorgeous 5 burner gas range and underfloor heating.

Nubbins My sister has an Aga in her dining room. I think there was a fashion for that in the sixties. Very impractical in my opinion.

Full marks to lucky - it takes a brave person to actually rip out an Aga. How much of the house did you have to demolish to get it out?

They demolished it in the kitchen and then took it out it in bits. It was a really old one, had been converted to gas from solid fuel and apparently that meant it was full of ash which went EVERYWHERE.

Anyway, they may have lovely warm kitchens now, but it'll rubbish for them in the summer - ask them how warm their kitchen is when it's hot outside and they can't turn the oven off.

Lucky How could you do that. It would be like having the dog put down.

How exactly is having a useless, expensive cooker removed from your house like having your dog put down?

Mine just feels like one of the family the least you can do is rehome it

I know someone who manages to get the word "Aga" into every conversation.

"It's a pain getting the re-usable nappies dry - after hanging on the line I have to warm them on the AGA"

"My dh loves to come in and dip into the little somethings I keep simmering on the AGA"

"We live in the kitchen, what with the AGA there"

I only speak to her rarely, but every time it's Bingo! she's mentioned the darned Aga.

MIL has one, tis a good job it's in a sprawling house because there is no other oven, and the kitchen is a furnace in summer!

We've got an Aga - a four oven giant which we inherited when we bought the house.

Good things: We don't need any heating downstairs and it acts as a great clothes dryer, so we don't have a dryer either which all = money saved (in fact I think we just about break even). It has two normal gas rings on it too so in summer we can switch the main thing off and cook stuff on there and in the microwave. You don't have to pre-heat the oven ever. It's great for proving and baking bread.

Bad things: Size. It dominates the kitchen.

5 burner gas range in cream and black. It looks as good as an Aga but doesn't cost an arm, several legs and your first born child to run... and we have a radiator to keep the kitchen warm, which kinds of makes sense as that's what we use to keep the rest of the house warm.

Bloomin' AGA louts

Yes, but AGA owners eat very cheaply. To justify the constant heat, there always has to be some kind of beany casserole slow cooking in the bottom oven. Another soggy supper. I've had my AGA 3 years and I literally haven't chewed in all that time. Fart like a trooper though.

They look wonderful to me (just googled them.). Love the wonderful colours!
My dream stove (and fridge) is a Heartland, in red or cream colour, (probably red) but waiting until we move in a few years. It will be an extravagance, but we do not spend money on extravagant things often. I love the look of them, and after using one this summer, am in love. Check them out.
www.heartlandapp.com/en/PhotoGallery/Gallery.htm?id=1

I'm jealous of Aga owners.

I appreciate that they are wildly impractical but they look so nice. And as we all know, looks are very important. :)

What you can have is a Stanley that is a range like an Aga, but does heating, cooking and hot water. Mine works on an electronic timer which can be overridden so when it's cold it stays on all day; in summer, it just does hot water and cooking, and in winter all three. Normally it came on at 0530 for heating and off again at 0730 when I left for work, and on again at about 1800 and then off at 2300 when I went to bed. It was programmed differently for weekends.

For those who make cracks about oil usage, please consider that in some parts of the UK, there is no access to mains gas at all, so the choice is electric, LPG or oil. Whenever there was a power cut in the winter I was envious of those with Rayburns and AGAs, as those keep going, so you still have heat etc, whereas the rest of us would sit in the dark and cold (unless the woodburner was going).

My best mate's parents have an Aga and if they'd like baked potatoes for dinner, they have to put them in at lunchtime. I think it's cute!

I never aspired to own an Aga but we 'inherited' one when we moved into our current house. It is old (Ok, ancient) and gas-fuelled. I was terrified by it at first, mainly by the prospect of paying for all that fuel.

However, we don't have a tumble dryer and we don't have the radiators on much because the Aga throws out so much heat. We also don't use a toaster or a an electric kettle. As a result, our monthly combined gas/electric bills are the same as the neighbours who live in the same sized house.

My kitchen's the size of a tea towel. Turn on electric cooker and it gets warm.

Got to love, Mumsnet, haven't you? Someone actually wants to throttle me because of the type of oven I cook my food on!