Anyone own an AGA cooker?

Just wondered whether they were any good.

Jinkster

AGAs should be eaten raw like sushi, no need for a cooker.;)

This thread is just like another one entitled "Anyone own an AGA cooker" by Jinkster, also on 22nd Dec 2002 !!!!!

(No doubt they'll be combined and my observation will seem ridiculous; then again why should this observation seem any more ridiculous than all my others.)

Were you just being sure by posting duplicate threads, or perhaps looking for both sides of the argument ? .....sorry AGAment. ;)

As it happens Drapers last cooker was a AGA, err, I think, it sounds familar,what can one say, it did the job, the grill made excellent toast, the oven was fine for yer leg of pork or beef sirloin,
it fried bacon nice and crisp and did drapes soft boiled egg to a tee
A cooker is a cooker, its Drapes experience that it is the cook what makes the difference not the cooker itself.
PS, Draper only got rid of it because he inherited a brand new one.
The only other advice one can offer is get a gas cooker, the electric ones are a bust I hear, although drapes has never owned a electric cooker so I cannot say this for certain. ;)

Had an AGA in the old family house, it was marvelous. My mother loved cooking on it and even I managed OK later on. It heated the water as well. It's only drawback was that it was an older anthracite model which involved lugging hods of heavy black stuff which had to be top loaded and could make a bit of a mess. Later oilfired and possibly gas might be less labour intensive. Top marks as far as we were concerned.

We had a Rayburn - made by the same company I believe. It cooked very well and it heated the hot water, I believe that the new ones can also be used for central heating as well. We used to recusitate near death lambs and ducks in ours, the second time they were put in there resulted in a golden brown and steaming version and tasted jolly good too. We had a French family come to see us and the wife couldn't believe how well the Rayburn cooked. Before that we had a Victorian black range with open fire, blackleaded on a regular basis - excellent training for women chaps. :D :)

Back in about 1959, a very little Criticalmass lived with his parents in "The Old Cottage", West Chinuck, Somerset whilst his Dad was on exchange with the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm.

The kitchen was dominated by an AGA cooker, and my Mum still speaks of it glowingly after all these years. A magnificent instrument for cooking if it still wins praise form a lady who has cooked for the best part of seven decades now.

This one was wood-fired as far as I can recall. On winter days I used to lean against the the oven door to warm myself up after the cold walk home from school.