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my aga saga – The Aga queen

I was born in 1965, and have never known any other way to cook. My parents brought a powder blue aga in 1958, after my dad was on jurry service, and made friends with a gentleman, who had got a Aga installed in his home. It cost £200 fitted, with a loan of the coal board. it originally ran on solid fule, i remember my dad every day filling it up with a coke hod full of coke, in the mid seventies we had it converted to gas, which was better to regelate. the things we had to go with it for cooking were the cake baker and three cake tins, the toaster,grill pan,half size and full size meat tins, and plan oven shelf{which has been replased with a new one in the last few years} We have had the odd disaster, with one christmas eve, the oven door been jammed,and a big turkey to cook.so we called Cavers the Aga servicers who came to the rescue, also with not been able to smell whats cooking in the oven, mum put some sasuages in the oven for our two dogs, and forgot about them until the next morning, they were well done,black and shiny sulptured, could have won the Turner prize for that year. the saying eight out of ten dogs prefer Agas is true, al our dogs over the years have loved suggling up to it, in fact our tri couloured caverlier, charlie is often in the way when mum is cooking the evening meal, and when we come down in the morning to make a cup of tea, he is sleeping by it instead of his comfy bed. i have a passion for cooking, and have cooked many a gourmet meal on it, and done dinner parties for 10 people, with the simmering oven been used used to keep food hot, and to warm dinner plates etc. we have various aga cook books including the one that came with the cooker, that was printed in 1956. mary berry's Aga cook book has been well used, her victoria sponge is to die for, and friends and family who sample it say it,s the best they have ever tasted, and who would have throught that you could cook scotch pancakes on the slow plate. the aga can be used for other things besides cooking, as i have found out, put your folded sheets on the lid of the simmering plate, over night, no need to iron, plus air your washing on the towel rail, and lids, simmering oven good for drying out fire wood, jam jars for making perserves and chutneys. if I have anything negative abou it, it would be that you carn't regulate it like a normal cooker, the kitchen can be to hot in the summer,(we now turn it down at night and put it up in the afternoon to ncook the evening meal, and the tea towels, hand towels keep slipping of towel rail. our family would give the Aga 90%, but wouln'd swop it for the world.

The Aga queen's AGA Spec

• Model type – Aga
• Fuel type – Natural Gas
• No of Ovens – 2
• Colour – Powder Blue
• Year installed – 1958

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