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Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 04 6:42 pm Post subject:
I have one in the loft, I must get it down now we have some worktops in our kitchen.

alison
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 04 10:52 pm Post subject:
In the house we have a very old aga, oil fired. We also have a creda cooker and electric hob, which was fitted with the kitchen. In the B&B we use the oven we had as a wedding present 15 years ago. Creda electric, ceramic hob.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 3:53 pm Post subject:

the fiddlesticks crew wrote:

I shall write this quietly but......

theres a prize draw to win an Aga in todays Telegraph

you're not to enter cos I'm going to win it!

no Aga sized envelope has thudded on to the mat -sulk-

Gervase

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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 3:57 pm Post subject:
At the moment I'm using an absolutely sh*te LPG cooker in the caravan with an oven just big enough to roast a teal and four tiny burners. When the kitchen's done, though, the Rayburn is for the heave and an LPG Britannia range with electric oven will be the centrepiece. Ah, such stuff as dreams are made of!

anneka

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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 6:21 pm Post subject: Where is it?

As I live with my MIL I use her Aga - it is very good. I can't remember how to cook using an electric oven any more. It's oil fired, but does not rely on electricity to pump the fuel, so good in a power cut.

As and when we get to the kitchen in our house we will get a solid fuel rayburn (a lot cheaper and more efficient than Aga). My parents have one of these and were recently discussing whether to convert it to oil but decided to leave it as it is for a number of reasons. Practice makes perfect when it comes to keeping dust down to a minimum - mums super good at this, and veiws the daily shuggeling and stoking as looking after a pet. They don't let it go out in the winter, so they stay at home or get one of us to look after it (along with the other animals).

Anneka

Debbie

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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 6:50 pm Post subject: what sort of cooker do you use

At home we have a bog standard electric oven and hob. Would prefer gas but there isn't any. We are lucky to have electric and that is a bit erratic.

At work I have to use an oil fired aga. I HATE IT. I used to think I wanted an aga till I met this one (parents had a solid fuel one). It is a 4 oven aga (probably two cobabled together is the expert opinion) and is ancient. The two left hand ovens do not work. The top right oven does what it feels like and the bottom right oven takes half hour to get plates vaguley warm. The top left hob is the "fast" hob and took an hour to make two pints of cheese sauce. The right hand one you might as well forget about. It is serviced every six months. Try cooking a six course meal for 16 on that and keep a smile on your face.

It hates me

Sorry........rant over.

EMW Sanctuaries UK

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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 7:07 pm Post subject: solid fuel rayburn

yes another solid fuel rayburn user here, though have got a little Creda leccy one 'just in case' and for when it's boiling hot in the Summer ( though who cooks then???)..love th Rayburn, instant heat, really easily regulated oven temp and nowwe've got an airbrick in the wall along side and a fan above it's fume free too...( also brill for warming/drying gloves/socks etc...and the odd chick or 6 have hatched out courtesy of Rayburn!)
emw x

alison
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 8:34 pm Post subject:
Debbie next time you get it serviced, your boss people, get the engineer to turn the tube inside so it aims the heat differently. Ours did this for us and the difference was fantastic. (Excuse the non technical terms)

Debbie

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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 9:05 pm Post subject: what sort of cooker do you use
Thanks, I'll try Alison. The service people seemed to think it needed taking away and reparing but they wanted �3,500 to do it!!!!!!! Can't see that happening in a hurry its been the same way for the last 12 years. I'm probably being unfair to all other agas that no doubt behave themselves as all agas should do

jema
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 9:11 pm Post subject: Re: what sort of cooker do you use

Debbie wrote:

Thanks, I'll try Alison. The service people seemed to think it needed taking away and reparing but they wanted �3,500 to do it!!!!!!! Can't see that happening in a hurry its been the same way for the last 12 years.

I'm probably being unfair to all other agas that no doubt behave themselves as all agas should do

What is the cost of a new one then?

jema

alison
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 9:13 pm Post subject:
I think it about �8000 for a 4 oven

jema
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 9:15 pm Post subject:

alison wrote:

I think it about �8000 for a 4 oven

But it sounds like the sort of thing you could get at a catering auction for a lot less than the new price?

jema

alison
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 9:24 pm Post subject:
A catering cooker maybe, but not an aga. Not all rural areas have gas though, and a range is best with gas, imo.

anneka

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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 04 9:28 pm Post subject:
You can get them second hand, refurbished though. Don't know how much MIL got hers for �1500 about 10 years ago. May have P/X with the old one though. Anneka

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