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We are in Devon most days and clean lots of AGA cookers in the area. So if you are looking to get your AGA cooker, oven, range cooker, hob, microwave or fridge cleaned please give us a ring.
And look out for our van in Honiton,Tiverton, Cullompton, Okehampton, Exeter, Newton Abbott, Torquay, Paignton, Exmouth, Seaton, Beer, Sidmouth, Budleigh Salterton and surrounding areas.
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We clean lots of AGA cookers in the Bath and North East Somerset area. So please give us a ring if you are looking to get your AGA, oven, range, hob, fridge cleaned or commercial cooker cleaned in this area.
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I've just found this great win an AGA competition.
You need to go to the site and fill out your details. The answer to the question is 'Pale Blue'.
The question refers to the old colour name of the AGA colour when it was last sold not the old name of 'Duck Egg Blue' which is confusing as if you are American you'd think it's 'Robin Egg Blue'. They should have asked "when this colour was previously used on an AGA what was it called?"
The Period Living magazine is a great magazine and I've been getting it every month for years as I've had it on subscription.
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I found this article about AGA Aims programmer settings on the AGA Scotland site of Lillies of Selkirk so if your looking for an AGA in Scotland then I'm sure they are the best people to contact.
It look like the information originates from AGA and was part of their announcement that all Gas AGA cookers would have AIMS fitted as of 1st September 2008. Interesting I have also found on the main AGA site that you can now also now retrofit Retrofit AIMS to older AGAs. This really is great news as you will be able to reduce the running costs of your older AGAS.
Settings for the AGA Gas AIMS programmer are as follows:
Temperature Modes
There are 3 different heat modes
1. Normal – this is the "traditional" Aga setting
2. Low
3. Slumber
Programmes
Program Setting:-Preset to two active periods a day (can also be set to one programme a day), breakfast and dinner, with a low setting during the rest of the day. After dinner the system will automatically step down to the lowest energy usage position – "Slumber".
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I've just noticed that AGA say on their main site a comment about dismantling a 30 Amp AGA cooker in that they say that: " A 30 amp electric Aga cannot be
economically dismantled, moved and re-assembled".
I think this is to do with the insulation material that the 30 Amp AGA has inside it. It needs to be different from other AGA cookers as the elements in it get extremely hot when they heat up overnight.
The guy who installed our reconditioned 30 Amp AGA cooker dressed up in a full protective suit when he was handling it as the material had a skull and crossbones on the packet. I think it's just taking it out of the packet and putting it into the cooker that is the problem, once it's in there then it is safe. Tony from Mr Cooker who supplied and installed our reconditioned 30 Amp AGA cooker has since given up installing them because he wants to protect his health as he felt 12 years of doing it was enough, he still installs other AGA cooker fuel types and also still supplies reconditioned 30 Amp AGA Cookers.
So handling of the insulation is a problem and is made difficult by the health and safety handling regulations of a nasty material. I'd also expect the insulation to cost a lot more than normal AGA cooker insulation.
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We often clean ovens in the Minehead area. So if you live in Minehead or have a rental there which has an oven that you need cleaning to make sure that it is really clean then please give us a ring on 0800 45 82 357. We clean ovens, range cookers, aga cookers, hobs, extractors, fridges until they gleam.
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We regulary clean ovens in Bridgwater and the surrounding areas of Somerset. Infact our operative Alan has recently moved into the area so we are now your local oven cleaning service!
So if you are looking to get your oven cleaned in your rental, your oven, aga cooker, range cooker, hob, extractor or fridge cleaned please give us a ring on 0800 45 82 357.
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For drop scones recipe and other AGA cake recipes this is a great site: www.realcakes.co.uk/Aga. I gave up using the bake-o-glide as it didn't really seem necessary, as any mess on the plate soon burns off. I have been on the look out for good quality metal spatulas for this sort of thing – the bigger the better. If anybody finds one let me know- I'll have to look at the AGA cookshop site again to see what's there when I've got some time. I've seen the pizza thingy but not sure if it's too big.
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We clean traditional AGA cookers on a regular basis and we have also cleaned Viking Range Cookers too, though they are not so common in the UK, or if they are we don't seem to getting them. We haven't as yet cleaned a AGA 6-4 series but I have seen them in the showroom; this AGA has four conventional ovens and in the AGA enamelled cast iron shell with gas burns on the top. We have regularly cleaned the 4-2 series model which is the smaller model and is also sold as the module fitted to the two oven (or a four oven) AGA cooker to give you the conventional cooking ability that is useful especially in the summer months when you may want to switch the AGA off to make your kitchen cooler.
So how does aga compare to a viking?
If you were to compare it with the new Aga 6-4 series the cooker is comparable to a Viking in that it has a traditional gas hob and electric ovens. The differences are that an Aga has 4 ovens where a Viking has 1 or 2, and it is built from cast iron. On the AGA The enamel finish looks like what you find on high-end cast iron cookware and is available in 14 colours. The four ovens give your more flexibility in cooking meals. For the Viking it looks like you can get it as many colours (looking at the viking cooker selector US site) and also stainless steel which looks great in a modern kitchen. The Viking feels like a professional cooker to the user and feels like it could happy sit in one so some people may find it 'heavy' to use. This AGA has the advantage over a conventional AGA cooker (which is on all the time) in that you can switch off and you can switch on each oven as required.
The traditional Aga cooker is a entirely different cooker. It has a single 15,000 BTU burner and uses radiant heat. The radiant heat produces much better cooking results. Most traditional Aga owners use a 20:80 rule, with 20 % of food cooked on the two hotplates and 80% in the ovens.
A Viking owner would reverse this with 80% of food cooked on the top. The ovens are vented in an Aga, so there is no need for a hood. Attend an Aga demonstration to really appreciate the differences.
For the conventional AGA cooker you will have to become proficient at using this type of cooker. Local
AGA shops and showrooms run demonstrations and courses on how to use
the cooker. The Mary Berry AGA book which comes with a new AGA is excellent and will
give you all the help that you need. Of course for the conventional AGA
cooker it will be on all the time so your fuel bills will reflect this.
Allow £12 a week for fuel bills for a 2 oven 30 Amp AGA, £25 a week for
other fuels, with the 13 Amp Cooker maybe higher. For 4 oven AGA
cookers and those with the water boiler attached expect higher running
costs than this. Also don't forget the installation costs of the AGA cooker. There is currently a problem with oil AGA cookers – search on this blog for my post re the changes in kerosene home heating fuel in the UK.
If you live in the south west of england I would recommend going to the showrooms at Spillers of Chard where in their cooker centre you will be able to appreciate the differences of the range cookers compared here.
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I mentioned before about the AGA cooker that I had recently cleaned and the whole top had been painted with matt black heat resistant paint which didn't look good at all. It is normal for the whole AGA to be enamelled except for the ends of the towel rail on the front and the inside of the control panel door which is usually left bare metal but with the control instructions on an aluminium plate. So if you have an AGA that has been painted, I'm talking about the traditional AGA cooker here and not range cookers with an AGA badge, then it is unusual and I'd advise you to get the parts re-enamelled by an AGA re-enamelling company such as Hytech based in Highbridge in Somerset.
If its just the top which has been painted we can get it off but of course the damage underneath may mean it needs enamelling anyway.
When I bought my first AGA cooker in 1996 (it was a reconditioned enamel one) I noticed at the time there was a company which I think were called 'Country Cookers' who did reconditioned AGAs but they removed the enamel and then paint sprayed them with glossy paint. They looked good in the showroom but I have since cleaned one and they are a nightmare to clean as you can't get them back to as new standard like the proper enamel AGAs.
Also if you get a chip on your AGA I'd suggest you get an AGA enamel kit from AGA which will be the correct colour for your AGA.
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