AGa 4 oven night storage electric cooker

murphy91

Hi, I have been saving for years for an AGA cooker. We live in an old house with a cold kitchen. there is a space for an AGA 4 Oven.
Went to the AGA shop in Belfast and they recomended Night Storage AGA cooker as the best for us as we have night rate electricity They said it is the most economicle. We are working all day and get home 6.30 approx in the evening . They say the cooker will still be hot enough to cook an evening meal. I am a bit unsure about the heat lasting all day.
Has anyone out there any experience of these cookers. Are they expensive to run? They also advised us against the Total Control model.
Hard to make a decision when it comes to spending this kind of money.
They have a promotion coming upand there will be savings on the price during that time.
Any advise would be appreciated please.

macman

Probably only if you like eating your evening meal at midnight.
The saving will be a fraction of the total running costs.

HappyMJ

murphy91 wrote: »

Hi, I have been saving for years for an AGA cooker. We live in an old house with a cold kitchen. there is a space for an AGA 4 Oven.
Went to the AGA shop in Belfast and they recomended Night Storage AGA cooker as the best for us as we have night rate electricity They said it is the most economicle. We are working all day and get home 6.30 approx in the evening . They say the cooker will still be hot enough to cook an evening meal. I am a bit unsure about the heat lasting all day.
Has anyone out there any experience of these cookers. Are they expensive to run? They also advised us against the Total Control model.
Hard to make a decision when it comes to spending this kind of money.
They have a promotion coming upand there will be savings on the price during that time.
Any advise would be appreciated please.

AGA and savings are two words that don't go together.

Yes the heat will still be there in the early evening....as long as you haven't had the door open earlier in the day cooking breakfast and lunch.

The additional heat input required to ensure there is enough heat in the evening defeats the point and savings made are minimal.....but on the other hand the kitchen will be warm all day and savings will be made on the heating bill.

A night storage Aga is a 30A cooker at 230V that would be about 7kW..over 7 hours that's about 50kWh...over 7 days that could be as much as 350kWh of energy if used for 3 meals per day and plenty of boiling water. An Aga test has shown that when used for one simple meal a day (using the oven only---not the hot plates) and using the low energy setting the energy consumption is about 128kWh per week....multiply that by 52 and it's a minimum of 6,650kWh of electricity per year....multiply that by 6p and it'll cost £400 per year to run the cooker....you can double that if you cook two meals in a day or use it to boil a kettle a few times....or do anything more than the test they used....or if your kitchen is cooler than the one in the test.

murphy91

Thank you for your reply. Some food for thought.

wannahouse

ok, i'm a bit late to the party here, but here's my thoughts on the electric aga!
theres one in the house we currently rent- only form of cooking, and its an electric 30 amp, 2 oven , economy 7 aga, and was is about 6 yrs old.
firstly, in 10 mths, we have been without a cooker twice,for a period of 7 wks the first time and 2 wks the 2nd.


first time was due to the time it took them to get someone out, then he ordered parts, then when they arrived, fitted the parts to someone elses cooker instead of ours, so we had to wait again for them to be resent and have the time to come out and do it again.
it was during the freezing snap last march ,and we had no form of cooking at all for nearly two mths and had to eat in a kitchen that was max 6.9c with no heating!
2nd time, it failed to get to temp, and after a wk, someone came out to fix it, but wired in the thermostat backwards, so depsoite being on boost all day for a few days, it never heated pasted the 1/4 mark!
when someone finally came back after the 2nd wk of having no cooler, he found that the other repairman had made the mistake an fixed it.
this was all work done by AGA repairmen, on the AGA careplan!!!, not by independant repairmen!
so obviously, i think its pretty rubbish to have an expensive piece of junk sitting there for 9 weeks out of 43, not working!

getting to the original question of whether is stays hot...
we are careful to only have the lids open for the minimum time, bring things to the boil on the top and then quickly place them in the oven to continue cooking, so as to conserve heat, but we work from home, so will often make porridge or pancakes for breakfast, use it for lunch (usually just the oven ) and also dinner..
some days its so rubbish at dinner time, you couldn't get a sizzle out of a sausage!!!

even at its hottest, having not been used at all, you can't properly stirfry anything EVER!
even on a ceramic electric hob i used to have, i could get my wok superhot , and get a good smokey flavor to the food, but on the aga, )don't even think of trying to use a wok!)even if i have pre heated my cast iron pan in the oven for ages, its no good.asian food cannot taste authentic on an aga!
it is nice having a warm kitchen ,but you can achieve that with a radiator!
our friend has a oil fired rayburn and she can crank that right u and get it really hot if she wants too..we don't have that choice.
lastly, on 100 days on our energy bill ,the aga sucked through 3996 kw hours of energy during the economy 7 hours, costing us £243.12 for 100 days, so around £886 per year to run, not including the huge costs of repairs when it breaks down, (or around £250 per yr for the customer care plan instead- highly recommended!) making it a very expensive, useless piece of junk to sit there and look pretty!
if you have money to burn, they look great in a kitchen if you also have a conventional cooker, otherwise don't bother!
actually i have just realised that the sums i did there are wrong, seeing as for 7 weeks of that 100 day period i quoted, the aga wasn;t even working! :0 oh god!!!!
thats hideous!

stay well away!

for our new house, we have bought a good used gas/electric hob and i like the idea!
when i use it, i pay- when its off, i don't!

gc_bus

An electric storage Aga sounds pretty bonkers to me....... must be a nightmare in the Summer with the heat generated out of it....?