Owning an aga

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Does anyone have one? I’m moving to a cottage and there’s a nook for an aga. I’m keen to have one but I need it to work for me cost wise. The village has no gas. The house is electric only. Any advice would be very gratefully receive. Tia

X aga owner here, recently sold our house. We had a reconditioned electric aga, I loved it but only had it on October _ April, it was expensive to run, but we had a very large kitchen/diner and it made the wholes space so inviting and cosy.
I cooked differently with the aga lots of slow cooking, loved the slow pace, aga kettle takes longer to boil and aga toast can not be bettered.
I had a second range cooker for the summer months but I had a rule to never use it when the aga was on.
We did look at Everhot, I like them very much, if you contact them directly they will let you know when secondhand ones become available, I get contacted a couple of times a year by them with factory reconditioned secondhand ones for sale, so I would consider buying one in the future.

Another vote for Everhot here. Our kitchen is small so we replaced an oil aga with a 60cm wide Everhot model.

They can be more efficient with solar panels if that’s also a possibility.
Perfect for drying washing - we never use our old tumble dryer and strategic folding means it does the ironing too

In case you needed any more thumbs up for Everhots! Ours was delivered in May this year and I love it. We ended up getting a secondhand one as seemed silly not to when one in the size and colour we had planned anyway became available.

my husband grew up with an aga and missed it which I could never understand, so when we moved into a freezing cold house we had a 2nd hand one installed, it is heated by economy 7 overnight, it keeps the downstairs area warmer and is lovely to cook on, I would miss it if it went but it's definitely a luxury! My daughter and I have both managed to get nasty burns (trip to A&E) from the top plates but perhaps we're just clumsy.

Growing up we’ve had a few in different houses
A warmsler, solid fuel did heating and hot water and cooked. Very good cheap to run.
Aga oil fired just a cooker. Kept the kitchen in a very cold house warm and cooked really well. It was a reconditioned one.
Aga in a rented house oil cooked and hot water did neither well.
Everhot. Keeps a large kitchen diner warm cooks really well. Huge ovens totally controlable. Costs about £13 a week to run, no servicing charges. My mother loves it because it’s easy to cook on and the kitchen is warm. My dad loves it because it’s cheaper than an aga to run and there’s no servicing.
I am hoping to move to a house with a solid fuel aga that does hot water. It’ll be cheap to run because I get free logs so I’ll only have to buy a couple of tonnes of solid fuel a year. It will create a lot of dust.
Have had a solid fuel Rayburn in a rental again cheap to run, more work though and there’s a definite knack to getting the temperature right for what you want to cook
I’ve cooked a lot at work on an oil esse that also did hot water and it was never hot enough.

Overall having used quite a few range cookers the everhot is best, then solid fuel aga or Rayburn