AGA City 60

Alex_Ramsay

Re the City 60 - do you leave it switched on all the time, or maybe just the simmering oven? If so, what are the costs like? And do you leave the hotplate on low also, with the lid closed? I did hear that this could damage the lid.

Thanks,
Alex

Cooker_expert

ryder72 wrote: »

My recommendation is to get a built in oven and an induction hob. It will not only be much faster and more energy efficient, you will have up to date technology to hand.

Buying an Aga is the equivalent of a mid 90's mobile phone or one of those bakelite phone with clunky dials. It may be charming and characterful but its about as practical as a chocolate teapot.

not quite as none of the new cookers can match an AGA's cooking performance, unfortunately though the AGA is way too inefficient for me.

The City 60 is not an AGA though that works the same as the Single heat source types that are inefficient, it is a conventional type cooker in AGA clothing and probably one of the highest quality cookers in the freestanding cooker market.

Cooker_expert

CKdesigner wrote: »

BTW Hintza - Aga don't make Rangemaster cookers, its actually more like the other way round! Rangemaster is the parent company that also owns in addition to Aga - Rayburn, Stanley, La Cornue, Falcon, Mercury and Fired Earth.

CK.

Thats also incorrect, neither AGA or rangemaster owned each other, they were part of the Glynwedd group that then split in two and became AGA cooking group then later became AGA-Rangemaster, The head office was at neither site.

The group was recently taken over and is now owned by the American 'Middleby Corporation'.

CKdesigner

Cooker_expert wrote: »

not quite as none of the new cookers can match an AGA's cooking performance, unfortunately though the AGA is way too inefficient for me.

The City 60 is not an AGA though that works the same as the Single heat source types that are inefficient, it is a conventional type cooker in AGA clothing and probably one of the highest quality cookers in the freestanding cooker market.

Sorry - wrong! The city 60 is a single heat source cooker for the ovens in exactly the same way as the Dual Control is. The Total Control is I think what you are referring to a multiple oven heat source, and as you will know the TC is a pile of c**p because the Aga designer's must have forgotten that PCB's don't like heat!

CK

Cooker_expert

CKdesigner wrote: »

Sorry - wrong! The city 60 is a single heat source cooker for the ovens in exactly the same way as the Dual Control is. The Total Control is I think what you are referring to a multiple oven heat source, and as you will know the TC is a pile of c**p because the Aga designer's must have forgotten that PCB's don't like heat!

CK

It is not the same as a normal aga which requires heat 24/7 these will heat up to cooking temp in one hour therefore constant heat is not require so more efficient than traditional types.

Agree on PCB's, they have no place or real requirement in cookers, but theres plenty fitted to the built in stuff you like to recommend... to be honest its a dream to me though as I get paid to repair them.

Cooker_expert

Out of the City 60 and the Module I would have the Module, Its ovens wont cook as well as the City 60 but you wont have to wait so long for them to heat up.

CKdesigner

The thing is PCB'S are fine in a built-in in ovens because the users don't leave them on 24/7, and also built-in oven manufacturers realise they need to fit cooling fans to look after these delicate components.

CKdesigner

And a module is half the cost of a city 60 and far more versatile, even though it's no better than a bsic cooker from the 80's!

Cooker_expert

CKdesigner wrote: »

The thing is PCB'S are fine in a built-in in ovens because the users don't leave them on 24/7, and also built-in oven manufacturers realise they need to fit cooling fans to look after these delicate components.

Why do I swap so many then ?

I have 2 boxes full of PCB's I keep on my van for built in ovens, I'm not the only one either.

Cooling fans are good if they spin fast enough, but the faster they spin the more noise they make so manufacturers compromise either fitting lower powered fans or fitting resistors to slow them down to reduce noise.

Cooker_expert

CKdesigner wrote: »

And a module is half the cost of a city 60 and far more versatile, even though it's no better than a bsic cooker from the 80's!

On the contrary the build quality of a module is incredibly high, I imagine though that you've never taken one apart to see this though, when you see the work thats gone on inside it, quality of components and man hours to build, thats when you realise why it costs what it does.