Sarah Whitaker gives a brief introduction to AGA cookery

[@beebee4095]

Bought a new home that comes with a lovely Aga, my first! Cannot wait to start cooking 🥘🥧 Thank you Betty, really appreciate your tutorials - Big Thank you.

[@JoWoodUK]

Great Tutorial. Enjoyed watching. Very Informative. Thanks.

[@ballentraehume907]

How to season simmer plate to cook directly without the sheets? Thanks

[@Afrikan]

"If you're resurrecting an orphaned lamb, don't shut the warming oven door." 🤣🤣🤣

[@seikibrian8641]

3:13 "The roof of the roasting oven is the grill." Note that in North America, what she calls "the grill" would be called "the broiler." A "grill," in North America, heats from the bottom; examples include ridged grill pans, charcoal grills like the famous Weber Kettles, etc.

[@justice-jb5ld]

Still I don’t understand how the Arga works out, with electricity or gas?

[@enkisdaughter4795]

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[@alexandradane3672]

Fantastic instruction - thank you indeed !

[@catringriffiths5470]

Very informative. Thank you.

[@katdunn7934]

So how long would a cookie sheet full of chocolate chip cookies take to bake?

[@PsulOrtiz]

She has the Most charming voice! If she were to read the phone book I'd listen from Abel to Zayas! And then on to all of the governmental offices, too!

[@JF-zv4oc]

Are Agas used in professional - non-domestic - settings like restaurants etc?

[@karldelavigne8134]

No.

[@TomokoMurakami]

No. They are anachronistic relics and I would never buy one versus a Viking or Wolf stove, for example. There is a reason why the English are not known to be good at cooking.

[@JF-zv4oc]

@@TomokoMurakami That is a very ignorant viewpoint. There is a very rich history of English cooking. I suggest you look up Jane Grigson “English Cooking” and educate yourself a little before making uninformed statements like this.

[@judistench2167]

@@TomokoMurakami😂😂😂🤭

[@traceyt4580]

I've had one for 40 years thinking of an upgrade but afraid it won't be as good

[@sithabelamandlawenkosiwodu6298]

Nice, very well executed explanations but very poor layout in the kitchen. Can't see what she's talking about due to camera angle, the countertop and all those things all over the oven.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

That’s actually someone’s house and Sarah has been invited to give a demonstration.

[@sithabelamandlawenkosiwodu6298]

@@enkisdaughter4795 okay, it's someone's house. What they should have done is prepped the house for TV filming. What's the point of covering the stove in so many towels and stuff and we the viewers can hardly see a thing?

[@madeleinechristensen9306]

What if it’s important that the oven is, say, 375 degrees F?

[@davidh7088]

It's never important. Not really.

[@judistench2167]

You ask too many questions…

[@vietfrog549]

2:15 someone definitely farted, no way that was a chair 🤣

[@738polarbear]

Well, she sold me . I’m gonna buy one.

[@ster2600]

That will set you back a pretty penny

[@lisa-marierota8860]

Awesome ❤

[@andrinaperry1334]

Visited Twyford today so disappointed you were not cooking

[@dave8484able]

I love Sarah Whitaker, her voice is so soothing

[@alanrosof7487]

Just how many ovens do people need considering a lot of families have husband and wife working and little desire for any cooking at all.

[@DCFunBud]

The kitchen is too cluttered for a demonstration. Why on Earth does she have those tea towels blocking the view of the Aga?

[@drummerlovesbookworm9738]

But does it cook pizza?

[@katherinemhenry]

Yes it does

[@theuofc]

What powers an Aga? electric, gas, or what? If it's on all the time, isn't that "hideous" for the power bill?

[@paulcook2592]

If you got an aga don't think you need to worry about the bills?

[@738polarbear]

You can turn it OFF of course .

[@eileensweeney2500]

Depends on how one uses it. With the insulated covers down, one can lay clothing across the hot plates and end the need for an iron or a dryer. Furthermore, it eliminates the need for an electric kettle, a toaster oven, and other electric appliances, and it eliminates some of the radiators/heating ducts in the kitchen, and some of the used ones actually provide hot water as well. This means that depending on the usage patterns, an Aga could actually end up saving energy. This effect would be compounded by their durability, which means that instead of using resources for several ovens/cooktops, one simply uses one Aga for many many decades (many Agas from just after WWII and even older are still in use), which is itself a significant savings. The net effect is that whether it saves or wastes energy depends on one’s usage patterns and if one has air conditioning (and there are well established, cheap architectural measures that can keep homes in the desert cool without air conditioning, so that is not necessarily a given in hot climates).

[@seikibrian8641]

*theuofc* "What powers an Aga? electric, gas, or what?" It's up to you. There are both electric and gas models. (And originally there were oil-burning and solid-fuel versions, too) And no, the utility bills aren't hideous, because once the cooker is up to temperature (which can take several days) it just idles along using only enough gas or electricity to keep the temperature constant. AGAs are "heat storage" devices, with an enormous thermal mass. (There are also new styles of AGA electric cookers that look like the traditional models but have selective heating by zone and such, but that's a more in-depth topic than I want to get into.)

[@seikibrian8641]

@@738polarbear Once installed, you wouldn't want to turn off a traditional AGA cooker, because it takes days to come up to temperature and stabilize there. These are "always on" heat storage devices, that in addition to cooking also warm the kitchen. They're good for northern climes, but you probably wouldn't want one if you were living in, say, Miami rather than Boston.

[@sreedharanaidu3175]

How does this design of being always on and hot sit with environmental issues?

[@johanmarnfeldt5262]

It doesn't sit well.

[@katherinemhenry]

It uses very little power to stay on all the time - and replaces your kettle, toaster, bread maker, even your tumble drier! It also heats the kitchen and adjacent rooms so effectively that the radiators in those rooms can be turned off. So although it's on all the time, it all balances out.

[@richh9241]

​@@katherinemhenry It always amazes me that people think something being always on is inefficient!? Do people realise how much energy is wasted heating things up temporarily and letting them cool down several times a day?! We also use it for all of those things, as well as a replacement for an iron also! They are the ultimate appliance.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

Think this question would be better asked of politicians who (globally) seem to have enormous homes and fly everywhere, whilst telling us not to fly / drive cars, etc, all the while claiming huge salaries and expenses from the taxpayers of whichever country they are in.

[@agnieszkaszymczak9677]

What environmental issues?

[@robinhooduk8255]

really did not enjoy this presentation. shes a proper sales pitch waffler, ive put a bid in for a house that has an aga and based on this womans pitch im about to google where i can sell the aga and get a rangemster. its a serious red flag that this woman doesnt give any actual temperature guides at all during this presentation.

[@joannk8076]

Counter tops too messy.....plastic laundry basket near the aga not smart.

[@christinaToula]

here is why kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHSth5-wpb5mnLM

[@enkisdaughter4795]

That’s someone’s kitchen who has invited Sarah to come and do a demonstration in her home.

[@chipmunktubetop]

You can't set the oven temperature? I'll take my $10,000 elsewhere.

[@seikibrian8641]

Instead of setting the oven temperature, each oven has a different temperature so you choose the right oven for the task. For some items, you would even move it from one oven to another. It's a different way of cooking, but once you get used to it, it works well.

[@738polarbear]

They cost about 15000 pounds . . More of a frivolous buy really.

[@eileensweeney2500]

They are known to last 5 decades or more (practically indefinite if basic guidelines on fuel quality (at least on oil models) and routine maintenance (mainly wick-related stuff in oil fired Agas) are followed). Furthermore, because they last so long, there is a healthy supply of used Agas on the market with plenty of life in them still. It would be worth investigating, at least in my view. But you already bought one, it seems. I hope you enjoy it.

[@gregor9128]

Life style of an unfair world.

[@KeliGagnon-p2c]

Dietrich Union

[@josefwang]

Hahahahahah. British people really like using an incinerator to cook food. Weird.