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.

I love my Aga - Charcoal, 3 oven, gas fuelled. Had one installed in my last house (British Racing Green). Had my entire house remodelled to produce a huge kitchen/family room with an Aga in present house.

I love my kitchen. Flag floors, cream and green farrow and ball painted units. Fabulous views.

Never turn my Aga off - in the summer we throw open the French doors and the conservatory door. Never gets too hot (but we are oop North). I also drive a 4 x 4. Have I exceeded my fuel allowance OP?

Every year the top class at DC's primary school used to cook mini Christmas cakes to sell at the Christmas Fair. When it was DC1's turn I was in school helping and all the parents there offered to take some home to cook. "No" said the head teacher "I'll do them in my Aga, they'll be perfect." Anyway, she takes them all home and puts them in the Aga, then, because you don't get any aroma from an Aga, she pushes off to Yorkshire for the weekend and remembers them when she's tucking into her Sunday lunch. She was too embarrassed to tell the kids so the following weekend she had to cook thirty Christmas cakes. The following year sharing cooking the cakes was right at the top of the agenda.

When I was a child, I remember my friends mum used to put poorly lambs wrapped in blankets in the Aga. I assume this was on a fairly low heat.

(they were farmers :O)

Yes REL, I think it's safe to say she put them in the warming drawer of the four oven version, and not the one that's like the firery furnacew of hell - the one that incinerates a pizza in 60 seconds.

(Warming drawer also very useful for drying wet shoes!)

Their kitchen will be too warm in the summer though,k if the holiday house we stayed in last year is anything to go by

don't know where that 'k'came from!

PMSL @ Aga Bingo

whats posh about an aga? my nana had 2 agas and wood burning stoves in almost every room in her house. Its not a rich thing as it pays for itself eventually more a country thing. or in our case a norwegian thing :)

Hi,

Ive been reading some threads with 'Aga' as a key word and your username popped up.

Im at university down in Bournemouth doing Industrial Design and am looking to take some inspiration from the aga.

Is it alright if I ask you a few questions about your aga?

Kind Regards

Rob

Agree. Because I am v .

We have a very old and iffy Rayburn in this temporary house and in early spring it has revived lambs, a calf or two, a cold cockerel, a rabbit, sick cat and other creatures, cold bums, wet wellies and everything.

It gets switched off late spring and goes back on early winter but is harsh on oil.

Ask away, Rob.

Although hate hate term 'warming drawer' had boyfriend interns whose father used to leave hima little supper in their every night, despite the fact he was more than capable if making it himself. Irrationally the memory of the phrase "i have left your dinner is in the warming drawer, Jolly" makes me itch all over. Random.

I doubt that I'm the only one who remembers 'black ranges', the Aga predecessor used by the poor. They were so efficient, and not unattractive, that the rich plagiarised them for their own use and turned them into Agas.

I suppose Agas are better in that they do not have to be black leaded as often as black ranges did to make them look clean again. When I lived during the war up to my neck in muck and bullets, I lived with my grandparents in Rutland. There was an 'ashhole' in the back garden where all the rubbish was put (private landfill, I suppose). I fell into it one day and a broken liquid lead bottle cut my finger. I still have the black scar .

My other grandmother had a black range, too, and her youngest child, about 15, incubated chicks on it in a shoe box.

Yes, they were very warm and heated water well. My uncle, a miner, would return home to a bath in front of the fire and allowed me to wash his back once!

Sorry, RobSeager - not really Aga material, is it?

I have a cream aga - its 30 years old and still works perfectly.

I have no other oven so its on all year round.

I love it but it is expensive to run with fuel/regular servicing etc. Will probably get the newer type when we re-do the kitchen as they're more controllable.

YANBU. My mum has an Aga and it heats the entire house for free*

*It's actually an Esse, she's poor!
**It's fuelled entirely by scrap pallets which she has to saw into stove-sized bits.

Oh, old thread. *Rob&, you appear to have happened across the wrong forum for Aga-love.

I mean, Rob.

God, why does every Aga thread have to turn into an 'I was so poor I slept in an orange box' saga?

My parents have an Aga. It's a dinosaur and has probably outlasted 5 or 6 ovens. Throttle them and I'll ram your teeth down your throat.

Someone once told me that Aga was invented by a blind Swedish man and that is why they have no sharp edges on them.

Oh I'd love an Aga. Always wanted one...

And, you can always open a window in summer.

I think the story was that Gustav Aga's wife went blind so he invented her a special stove that would be easy for her to use. Presumably because that would be easier than learning to cook himself.

On a similar, though off-topic subject, I recently learnt that Doc Martens were invented by a Nazi doctor with a ski injury.

i have a Oil fired Stanley range! it is far superior to the temperamental Aga!

and as scaryteacher already said, not everywhere has mains gas, so oil or wood is the only option we have.

and pah to all of you lot with your fancy range STYLE cookers, if it only cooks it ain't a range dahling!

This is an OLD thread people!

We've got a gas Rayburn in our dining room which runs our central heating. We don't use it for cooking and have actually turned off the hob.

It came with the house and don't think I'd buy one but I am quite attached to it. It does look a bit weird in a 20s city terrace but its an attractive piece of furniture. It's great for drying clothes and even though the hob is off, it keeps the room warm. Our kitchen on the other hand is tiny and has no heating in it at all.

Whoops. Didn't realise it was an old thread. Still love my Rayburn though.