AGA on the way so we can put our two buns in the oven! yes TWO, we have twins on the way!
so today we ordered the master of all ovens... an AGA oven!! it's so nice and I am so glad to be done thinking about what oven to get....I was having oven nightmires--really!
It's an all cast iron oven- with 6 burnesr and 4 ovens! I spent the last 2 weeks trying to pick out an oven but it wasn't until today when we went to Hart Appliances that we noticed the beauty. It caught both of our eyes immediately but I had no idea of their quality...so we went home and did some MORE oven research. After going through another million websites we decided that they were the mother of all ovens(sorry VIKING and WOLF- your nothing to us now)...and they basically really are because they have been around 70 years. They even look vintage which is a nice touch.
you can even tell it's cool by looking at it: http://www.aga-ranges.com/testimonials/gallery-pop.asp?idgallery=31&showPhrase=&idmodel=79
I like that a nobel piece price winner invented it. It will help inspire Dean who I know will win a nobel prize someday.
So- if you want to come to Thanksgiving at my house it's gonna rock. I am going to have all four ovens and all 6 burners cranking.
hers is some AGA history:
Dr Gustaf Dalen, inventor of the Aga cooker
Gustaf Dalen had a gift for mechanics, and was admitted to the Chalmers Institute in Gothenburg in 1892 at the age of 23. He graduated as an engineer in 1896 and in 1906 became Chief Engineer at the Gas Accumulator Company. When the company was reorganized as Svenska Aktiebolaget Gasaccumulator (AGA) in 1909 Dalen became Managing Director.
Dalen was a natural inventor. The Dalen Mixer was a 'sun-valve' which improved the light emission from lighthouse lamps and caused them to switch on and off automatically at dusk and dawn. His work frequently involved the use of acetylene gas and he lost his eyesight in an accidental explosion in 1912, but continued to develop the company and its products - Aga was was awarded the contract for lighting the Panama Canal. In the same year, Dalen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his gas regulator controlled sea-buoys.
An interest in thermal mechanics led to his invention of the Aga cooker. Early models were fuelled with coke. It burned slowly and efficiently, storing heat in heavy iron castings for transfer to the cooker's ovens and hot plates on a continual round-the-clock basis. The upper oven was hot and the lower one warm. Similarly the left hand hot plate was hot for boiling and the right one less so, for simmering. In this way the Aga was a very flexible cooker, especially as the top cooking surfaces were large and allowed several pans to be positioned to achieve the optimal cooking temperature.
The Aga's ovens - two or four - worked on the principle of radiant heat rather than heating by air, and food tended to retain its moisture and flavour. It also allowed the whole of the oven volume to be filled with food, and because the cooker was always hot there was virtually no need for oven cleaning. The ovens were vented via the cooker's flue, making it possible to cook different foods at the same time without any cross-contamination of flavours, and it eliminated cooking smells within the kitchen.
By the mid-1930s the Aga cooker was being exported throughout the world. 100,000 had been sold by 1948 and today an estimated 750,000 units have been manufactured in total, burning a range of fuels including coke, oil, gas, and electricity. Despite his blindness Gustaf Dalen continued to manage the Aga company until 1937, the year of his death.
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