Using an Aga or Rayburn

tessie_bear

thankyou...thats a useful thread

zippychick

let us know how you get on :)x

tessie_bear

i will indeed...dh seems quite interested so thats one hurdle got over

lostinrates

I grew up with ranges when in uk, and....i am not rushing to install one. The only thing i miss is the toast and climbing on top with a book...and i am too old for the latter. They are expensive to run imo, at least for the way we live. I did not know therge was a gas option, but think there is an electric and solar option rayburn. For us, not on gas, that would be the only option, or solid fuel.

For the type of house we have people are very surprised that we are not commited to installing one......but for me its a very expensive slow cooker or toaster....i would always have a cooker as well personally, at least for summer months, and so, in the short term at least we are not.

mjdh1957

We're about to buy a house with a gas-fired Rayburn and have never used one before, but are very excited about trying it. The previous owner loves it and has sold us on the idea, and lent us one of her cookbooks to start thinking about it. I've also ordered a Rayburn cookbook from Amazon which should arrive soon.

We both love wintry casseroles, soups and stuff, so it's a shame we will be moving in during the summer!

shoei

Having worked out that we can't afford to replace the Aga with anything more efficient at the minute (and we do love it) we are trying to make it as efficient as possible by using it as much as we can. The only problem is that we both work full time so any ideas what we could use it for other than the obvious stews and drying clothes?

I know we surely aren't the only people out there with this love hate relationship with these beasts so I thought it might be useful to put any Aga/ Rayburn related hints and tip and maybe some recipes?

Gloomendoom

shoei wrote: »

Having worked out that we can't afford to replace the Aga with anything more efficient at the minute (and we do love it) we are trying to make it as efficient as possible by using it as much as we can.

Good luck!

Artytarty

I remember my gran putting porridge in at night and it would be ready for breakfast. It may have been in the small low cooler oven. Also the same wi rice pudding, bung it in, remember two days late! Haha, she also put the dying parrot in the cool oven with the door open, to warm him ,not to cook and eat I hasten to add. I think it was common practice to nurse motherless lambs etc in front of the Ga . I'm not suggesting those last two things though!
She cooked pancakes, thick ones straight onto the surface they we the most delicious things I have ever tasted. Always a kettle on the go, I wish I had an Aga.

zippychick

we do have an older aga thread - ive merged your one in with it as it dropped down the board

Zip

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http://vastrapfarm.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/the-magic-of-aga/

like my old aga, oh what a joy it was. I owned it from 1974 to 1977. It was in the old (1750) cottage in the middle of nowhere. It belonged to the cottage and was mine for such a short time, Ok it was such a wonderful cooker/heater/hot water producer but I have forgotten about the endless emptying and filling and the horrendous price of anthrocite. We sold the cottage with the aga and the aga sold the cottage for us