Please help me decide whether to go for an AGA

lucielle

Can you not have the best of both worlds? My friend has an aga which she loves she has also had installed 2 gas rings which run on bottled gas so that she isn't left in the lurch.
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artichoke

Hi all

i am in having this very dilema at the moment.

We need to buy a new cooker to go in the old chimmney breast and i am so tempted to go for a heat storage range of some sort as the house is very old, stone cottage and the kitchen is cold as partly built underground....

but i am trying to justify it as moneysaving...... but have a problem as i know it will be more expensive than a "normal" cooker as it will be on all day /night.

I am tempted by an everhot range cooker.
http://www.everhot.co.uk/

as they claim to be the most economical heat storage range cooker....

but they are such a lot of money....and consume about £10 a week of electricity......

any more opinions about traditional heat storage range cookers as money saving purchases or not?

choille

They do look rather lovely.
Do you do a lot of cooking/baking?
What about in hot summer months - will your kitchen become as hot as hell?
You just have to ask yourself a lot of questions like those & weigh up the options.
I used to have an old Rayburn, but also a conventional calor gas cooker as well - for in the summer, as the rayburn was too hot to have on then, although it ran the hot water & partial central heating too & was solid fuel & we had access to free wood.
I will go for the same again in new house build as it will suit me. Got access to free wood, so will cost ziltch to run.
If your kitchen is the hub of your home & you & family spend a lot of time in it then that will be part of decision too.