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AGA has all sorts of offerings

Besides those solid or whatever fuel "always on" ranges.

Indeed they have to because even in GB people balk at their gas bills from having the AGA "on" all the time.

Read one account of an upscale couple who did their dream kitchen with an AGA. At first everything was wonderful, then the gas bills began coming.... Husband soon began gently telling is wife that they need to get rid of the thing because it was sending them to the poor house. Wife still loved and loves the AGA, but she can see sense.

Besides not everyone wants to live like it was the early 1900's. Using an AGA or similar type of range requires a different skill set than most modern housewives/cooks/homeowners are willing to cope with.

In other parts of the world where climate isn't nearly always cold and damp much of the year, an "always on" AGA is over kill. Few areas of the USA for instance are suitable to have that big cast iron range throwing out heat all year long. So people who do opt for that type of AGA also install something more traditional for use during warmer times of year. Better for AGA to offer a complete line so they can capture that sale as well. Sort of like a twofer.
 
I get a really good spiteful kick out of that AGA drama

There are so many nice AGA stoves for sale on Craigslist here in Connecticut. Makes me laugh because you just know that all the asshole Trustafarians get hoodwinked into buying them for their million-dollar kitchen renovations by their million dollar interior designers without learning how different an AGA is from any conventional cookstove. The AGA is essentially an old-fashioned restaurant stove that one would fire up in the morning and use all day until closing. It's not the kind of appliance you give to the illegal alien staff to boil up an egg for your keto diet a few times a day.

When we put our Parents' home up for sale in Salisbury Connecticut my sister and I were considering a kitchen renovation to increase the value of the house. It still had its beautiful original mid-Fifties kitchen (yes, GE front-loading dishwasher with the bakelite impeller, gorgeous Stratoliner stove; the only thing they replaced was the old GE fridge that was dead when they moved in). The real-estate agent who was helpful and decent told us that a brand new kitchen might fetch us a little more money but that all the rich-bitches from NYC who were buying second(or third or fourth)homes up there would follow SOP which was to tear out whatever kitchen was there when they moved in to put in their own granite counters, Viking or AGA stoves, Sub-Zero fridges and Asko dishwashers. The local appliance dealer is now a very wealthy man. This is why I'm a Sanders Pinko, these mothers aren't taxed anywhere NEAR their fair share.
 
Orignal Style AGA Ranges

Are about the easiest range to cook on ever built, you leave them on ALL the time and just put what you are cooking in or on the area that works.

 

Yes they are ridiculous in warm climates as they put off a lot of heat, but a natural gas fired one in the US costs only about $20-30  a month to stay cooking hot, it will not bankrupt anyone that can afford one of these ranges.

 

[ the cost of the A/C to keep the kitchen cool is another manor ]

 

One of our customers with one added a 2 ton A/C system just for the kitchen, another customer of ours just turns it off for the summer.

 

John
 
Never seen one in person, but I seem to remember getting a kitchen magazine back in the mid 90s and there were a few in there. They were mostly that apple green color that was so popular at the time in kitchens.
 
Wikipedia Is Crazy

22,000 KW hours per year is over $3000 dollars a year in the US, I know natural gas is cheaper, but that would still be more gas than my 4000 SF home uses a year for heating, water heating and clothes drying, and some cooking.

 

You have to take a lot of what is on the internet with a grain of salt, LOL

 

John
 
AGA/RAYBURN

Are still very popular here ok its not as hot as some areas and if you have a draughty old farmhouse you are glad to have that range hot 24/7 if you are lucky enough to afford one you would go for the 4 oven version as in the lower left oven overnight you can do rice puddings baked potatoes etc and in winter can even be used for hatching chickens etc they also dry the laundry overnight with a pull to the ceiling rack.
However if you don't want it running 24/7 there are oil fired alternatives which you can cook on within 20 minutes of switching it on and you can regulate the temperature as any gas stove also if your savvy enough you switch it off before everything is done and let the residual heat finish it for you. They really do not have to be expensive to run if you don't have them running full tilt all the time. Also you can have them heat all the water you can use as well as run your central heating. My big sister has a Rayburn its very flexible and has built in timers you can set just like any form of modern heating, she also has a Siemens oven and glass cook top for in these summer months we seem to get lately.
Austin
 
a better alternative

would be a vintage Chambers, another well built but much more efficient range, with the advantage of allowing one to avoid the ostentatious status striving of those annoying "upscale" desiring AGAnistas, and with the further advantage that one wouldn't need one's getaway trophy farmshouse's floors further reinforced.
 

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