Aga - oil fired. How does it work?

[anonymous-user]

We're looking at s house that has an oil fired aga. It's a modern house with oil fired central heating.

I've never cooked with one and am interested to know about the practicalities. I'm used to a gas hob and fan electric oven. We have two young kids.

Let's say you wanted to cook;

- fish fingers with broccoli
- a fried egg sandwich
- Sunday lunch

How quickly does everything get to temp and how controllable is it compared to a normal oven and hob?

As you might guess, I'm not up for fannying about and want to know if it will be a PITA.

[anonymous-user]

Ok. So don't shoot me here, I love cooking, however let's say I want to cook some chicken dippers for the kids (me) in the aga oven. How would that work? How long would it take to heat up?

[anonymous-user]

I get it now. Not for me.

[anonymous-user]

I get that people will be enthusiastic about them as a thing. We're a family who don't want to have to think too hard about getting on with things (we have enough to do at the best of times), and an aga seems like an expensive and inconvenient way of combining a radiator and cooker.

Thanks for the replies.

[anonymous-user]

ST12AT said:

As soon as you asked about ‘fish fingers with broccoli’ I knew an AGA wasn’t for you

Haha! Busted.

I love cooking all sorts of things but sometimes you just need something quick for the little ones.

I get why people like an aga, but we're taking about a rented house with no other cooker. Think we'll give it a miss (despite the adventure side of me being curious).

[anonymous-user]

Because they look nice and they have loads of money to run them?

I imagine they will all have separate ovens and hobs, too.