Wednesday 7 December 2011

AGA KHAN-NOT

Let me invent a product for you.




  • It serves a daily need. Cooking. So far so good.


  • It's about eight times more expensive than its nearest everyday competitor


  • It costs another £150 a year in servicing, which its normal competitors do not


  • It breaks down two or three times a year


  • If you are cooking for more than three people, the temperature will drop to a point where you cannot cook at all


  • If there is an R in the month, or the wind is from anywhere between north and south, or the runes dictate it, the temperature will drop to somewhere near clap cold


  • For five months of the year you can't use it at all


  • You can't adjust the temperature of its cooking surfaces


  • You can't practically own one unless you also own another, backup oven.


Yes. It's an Aga.



People swear by them.



Me too.

2 comments:

  1. You forgot 'and it makes you feel like a proper country person' as it is imbued with the aura of magical timeless ness

    which is of course BS

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  2. Exactly. Should read - makes you feel squirearchical in your middle class comfortable home.
    Of course, if as I do, you live in, as the Germans call it Tote Hose (literally dead trousers = the boondogs / the extreme sticks)beyond the reach of mains gas and with the only other option being propane (unconscionable)then you really are knackered. I looked at Aga Rangemasters share price. A long term disaster. Not surprising.

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