Aga - why?

[singlecoil]

anonymous said:

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I hadn't noticed anybody making that claim.

[AndrewCrown]

Last Visit said:

All this talk of efficiency....

All those who are critical of an Aga I presume drive a Prius?

To my previous point and the reverse of the above...

Hands up who has a Land Rover (any model) and an Aga ...

[Dont like rolls]

AndrewCrown said:

Last Visit said:

All this talk of efficiency....

All those who are critical of an Aga I presume drive a Prius?

To my previous point and the reverse of the above...

Hands up who has a Land Rover (any model) and an Aga ...

Nope

[DKL]

AndrewCrown said:

To my previous point and the reverse of the above...

Hands up who has a Land Rover (any model) and an Aga ...

Range Rover classic and an Aga if that counts. And yes a very old house.
There are definitely others on this thread with both too!

Edited by DKL on Saturday 16th November 13:01

[Teddy Lop]

I wouldn't have one, for the same reason I wouldn't try to put out a fire with the lovely decorative 1957 fire extinguisher I've got, or drive a narrowboat to work.

[67Dino]

anonymous said:

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You’re quite right, this isn’t just about the most ‘efficient’ form of heating. It might sound woolly, but personally I find there’s also an inviting quality to an AGA, not least because it‘s warm to stand near or lean on. People often refer to them as the ‘heart of the home’. I know when we occasionally have ours turned off, the kitchen feels a bit soulless.

Maybe that explains why non-owners find it so hard to understand why anyone has one: if you don’t need the practical benefits and/or don’t value the emotional ones, I can see they would seem expensive and pointless. But if you do, then like me, you would really appreciate yours.

[Flibble]

Aluminati said:

AndrewCrown said:

I agree a bandsaw's a very useful thing, I keep mine in the workshop in the barn. Not entirely sure of the utility in the house or am I missing something?

Cheese, very good for cutting cheese...

Mitre gauge and a loaf of bread.

[gnc]

if you have to question the use of an aga , you just dont understand.

[E92M3STEVE]

Because we wanted one :-)

[Bill]

I have a Landrover and a woodburner, but flogged the Rayburn and replaced it with a proper cooker.

I liken an Aga to a charcoal BBQ*. You can cook very well on them, but it has foibles and it can be a faff and doing it every day** can be a pita. Fans claim everything tastes better, but in blind tests no one can actually tell the difference.

I thought long and hard about getting another when we refurbished the kitchen. It's an old solid walled barn conversion and farmhouse and an Aga would suit it. But when it comes down to it you still need another cooker as oil prices mean keeping it on 24/7 year round is prohibitive, and electric is even more daft. As space heaters go they're massively expensive to buy and not cheap to run.


*I have a few of those too!

**I've also done this when the PoS Rayburn died again.

[StanleyT]

My wifes pussy has been rubbing up and down against the AGA all day and compared to when it rubbed itself against an open fan assist cooker, remains, still slightly moist, unwrinkled and not crunchy. I'm not quite a fan of the moist pussy smell when its been outdoors in the rain but one dried off with a slight aroma of the previous weekends beefy antics it is OK.

Our dog on the otherhand hates the thing.

[akirk]

DKL said:

AndrewCrown said:

To my previous point and the reverse of the above...

Hands up who has a Land Rover (any model) and an Aga ...

Range Rover classic and an Aga if that counts. And yes a very old house.
There are definitely others on this thread with both too!

Edited by DKL on Saturday 16th November 13:01

Yes
Wood burner/ Rayburn / classic Range Rover / house in the Cotswolds / green wellies (pair in every car) and a tweed cap...

You need the wellies and tweed cap in the RR for when it breaks down... and both dry well on / in front of the Rayburn!

[So]

There are cheaper cookers that do as good a job of cooking. Having an Aga is a luxury.

Premier Inn provides perfectly good hotel rooms, but I prefer the Ritz.

Agas also annoy the Greens. Which makes them worth the cost, absent all other considerations.

[jinkster]

We have an AGA cooker and an old house (built 1704) with single glazed windows and not much insulation either except the roof. The cooker keeps the kitchen warm and highly recommended. If we lived in a modern eco box (house) with excellent insulation then I think the AGA would be a little excessive.

[ATG]

Flibble said:

Aluminati said:

AndrewCrown said:

I agree a bandsaw's a very useful thing, I keep mine in the workshop in the barn. Not entirely sure of the utility in the house or am I missing something?

Cheese, very good for cutting cheese...

Mitre gauge and a loaf of bread.

Definitely safer than a table saw and fence. I was ripping a piece of Wensleydale and the slice kicked back and shot across the kitchen at about 100mph embedding itself in the wall having narrowly missed me. It's so easy to become complacent using kitchen equipment and it only takes one lapse of concentration to put you in hospital or worse.

[ATG]

jinkster said:

We have an AGA cooker and an old house (built 1704) with single glazed windows and not much insulation either except the roof. The cooker keeps the kitchen warm and highly recommended. If we lived in a modern eco box (house) with excellent insulation then I think the AGA would be a little excessive.

1704? I've got pants that are older than that.

[loughran]

ATG said:

Definitely safer than a table saw and fence. I was ripping a piece of Wensleydale and the slice kicked back and shot across the kitchen at about 100mph embedding itself in the wall having narrowly missed me. It's so easy to become complacent using kitchen equipment and it only takes one lapse of concentration to put you in hospital or worse.

May I recommend Sawstop.

Developed to prevent you inadvertently chopping your sausage but will work equally well with cheese too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CorOfxWfTU8

[ATG]

loughran said:

May I recommend Sawstop.

Developed to prevent you inadvertently chopping your sausage but will work equally well with cheese too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CorOfxWfTU8

Wow! Thought they were taking the piss in that video, but then checked their website. If it really works that well, that is properly clever.

[singlecoil]

ATG said:

loughran said:

May I recommend Sawstop.

Developed to prevent you inadvertently chopping your sausage but will work equally well with cheese too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CorOfxWfTU8

Wow! Thought they were taking the piss in that video, but then checked their website. If it really works that well, that is properly clever.

You gotta love American woodworkers, they'd sooner invent something like that than use a riving knife and saw guard.

[paulrockliffe]

AndrewCrown said:

Flibble said:

paulrockliffe said:

I have a bandsaw in the house. Far more useful than an Aga and the woodburner. I wouldn't have an Aga, but I do have two woodburners.

I have two bandsaws, but only one woodburner.

I agree a bandsaw's a very useful thing, I keep mine in the workshop in the barn. Not entirely sure of the utility in the house or am I missing something?

I use it for slicing up firewood as i go, great for kindling and those awkward lengths that stop you filling the stove properly so you'll have to do it again in 15 minutes.

I'm joking, I'm converting my loft and adding a third story over an extension so a lot of my kit has made it in over the last 6 months. The bandsaw came in because the workshop is completely full of insulation now.