New Aga

[frogmore6]

Has any one seen the new Aga? (smaller version)? What do you think?

The City 60? Not in the flesh - it looks from the website as if the ovens are a better size than the 4:2, but it takes a long time to heat up by the looks of things. It's beautiful though . . .

TBH, it's kind of style over substance - you're paying 5K for a (admittedly beautiful) electric oven, that will be more expensive to run that a normal electric oven, with the inconvenience of having to wait a long time to heat up, and not be able to see how the food is coooking.

The other thing is that, unless it is cooking, you won't get any of the 'aga love' from the radiant heat. People will flock towards it and feel disappointed that it is cold.

Having said all that, I'm still tempted...

Consider a Rayburn electric (at 90 cm), Everhot electric and RedFyre electric as alternatives. Rayburn and RedFyre are heat up from scratch ovens, but have 'warm front technology', where for about 0.01 p per hour, the front top surface of the stove is always warm to the touch. Everhot do an economical heat storage stove, which costs about 9 per week to run with economy 7.

I'm in this quandry myself at the moment....

TBH, it's kind of style over substance - you're paying 5K for a (admittedly beautiful) electric oven, that will be more expensive to run that a normal electric oven, with the inconvenience of having to wait a long time to heat up, and not be able to see how the food is coooking.

The other thing is that, unless it is cooking, you won't get any of the 'aga love' from the radiant heat. People will flock towards it and feel disappointed that it is cold.

Having said all that, I'm still tempted...

Consider a Rayburn electric (at 90 cm), Everhot electric and RedFyre electric as alternatives. Rayburn and RedFyre are heat up from scratch ovens, but have 'warm front technology', where for about 0.01 p per hour, the front top surface of the stove is always warm to the touch. Everhot do an economical heat storage stove, which costs about 9 per week to run with economy 7.

I'm in this quandry myself at the moment....

TBH, it's kind of style over substance - you're paying 5K for a (admittedly beautiful) electric oven, that will be more expensive to run that a normal electric oven, with the inconvenience of having to wait a long time to heat up, and not be able to see how the food is coooking.

The other thing is that, unless it is cooking, you won't get any of the 'aga love' from the radiant heat. People will flock towards it and feel disappointed that it is cold.

Having said all that, I'm still tempted...

Consider a Rayburn electric (at 90 cm), Everhot electric and RedFyre electric as alternatives. Rayburn and RedFyre are heat up from scratch ovens, but have 'warm front technology', where for about 0.01 p per hour, the front top surface of the stove is always warm to the touch. Everhot do an economical heat storage stove, which costs about 9 per week to run with economy 7.

I'm in this quandry myself at the moment....

Sorry for duplicates!

I think it's too much money - for what you get. I can see why they've tried to go down this route, but to me, it's like Aston Martin tring to make a family hatchback; it'd doubtless be popular, but would ultimately leave people feeling underwhelmed.

I think we're going to go for the AIMs, although if a 30 amp refurbished comes up at the right money (they seem to be half the price), we may get that instead.