Ken Sternberg wrote:
> Does anyone have experience cooking on an Aga gas range? What's it
> like? For $13,000 (the price of the basic model) I could buy a car.


I will try to sum up the AGA discussion.

Aga's were designed by a blind guy, in some cold country (not sure which
one) on the premise that it's easier to move things from oven to oven to
control the temperature that way than via a knob for a blind person.
They are also 'safer', as there are no exposed burners or flames.

They are really beautiful.

Those are the good points.


The bad points a

Incredible energy wastage (most ranges are used less than an hour a day,
yet an AGA is running 24x7).

The ovens are dinky.

The two top plates are too small, and the hot one is probably not hot
enough.

And most importantly, you have to modify your cooking to the appliance,
not having a tool what you want it to do.

And even AGA (the company) realizes that they are trying to push a rope,
in that their newest range has conventional burners on top. Yet even
here, they are producing a very expensive range with four small,
different ovens in one unit: A convection oven, a conventional oven,. a
broiler, and a simmer oven.

In short, if you are a blind person, living alone in Scotland or Norway,
in a drafty house, and don't know how to cook, they may be acceptable.
Otherwise, get a Blue Star or DCS or Wolf or... and be happy.

Colin