- 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.
You forgot 'and it makes you feel like a proper country person' as it is imbued with the aura of magical timeless ness
ReplyDeletewhich is of course BS
Exactly. Should read - makes you feel squirearchical in your middle class comfortable home.
ReplyDeleteOf 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.