Period Aga

[Penners]

Maybe not in your kitchen, but .............

Yer Ladyship - you promised me that you would never show that photo to anyone! I was just regulating the cooker to make you a cup of coffee...

 

[jocelyn plummer]

phhooaarrH !

 

[LadyArowana]

Yer Ladyship - you promised me that you would never show that photo to anyone! I was just regulating the cooker to make you a cup of coffee...

I know, I know, but it's so rare to see you without the back brace and looking so fetching I thought it should be shared!

 

[yamin]

Penners, you really neeed to bend from the KNEES - no wonder you have a bad back!

 

[Penners]

Good advice, yamin, but given my state of attire and the location of the camera, I was afraid that bending my knees might seem like advertising.

 

[yamin]

Good advice, yamin, but given my state of attire and the location of the camera, I was afraid that bending my knees might seem like advertising.

Fair point. that reminds me, must get that last couple of damsons off the tree.......

 

[jocelyn plummer]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Penners]

must get that last couple of damsons off the tree.......

***Penners' fruit-related response to that has been removed, in the interests of taste and decency***

 

[yamin]

Spoilsports!
:x

 

[Coombe]

We have one of the very early 4 oven Agas, that was converted many years ago to oil. I have always cooked on Agas (Gas), so I am familiar with the expected cooking temperatures. This one is very poor, and the baking oven is the sort of temp. you would expect from the simmering oven. The roasting oven is ok, but not as hot as it should be. The left hand side ovens are only used for warming at best. The aga has no flu, it just goes into a lage chimney. The oil conversion is external, and looks like a real botch job. We also have a second baby Aga in the skullary that heats the hot water, with the same conversion.
I would very much like to keep these Agas, but I need to be sure that I can get good temperatures from them, and that I can reduce the amount of oil they are consuming (approx. 800 ltrs) per month. If I had them reconditioned could the oil mechanism be internal, also would putting a flu in increase the amount of oil that they consume (this is what I was told by an Aga engineer who came to look at them)
Sarah

 

[yamin]

Think you've part answered your own quesrtion - if you go to one of these companies regarding reconditioning your Agas, I'm sure they could give you good advice. Sounds as if it would be a good investment to get the ovens up to heat and make them work more efficiently, and I'm sure it would be considerably cheaper than replacing either!

 

[Penners]

Simon has been informed.

 

[jocelyn plummer]

That has to be one of the most unsubtle approaches this site has ever had... they've normally been thinly disguised as 'building,related.

 

[Penners]

The spam has been removed by Simon.