Experiment carried out for CC/Curiosity

[Roch]

Up my neck of the woods we just have Beko.

[Cambridgecutie]

Up my neck of the woods we just have Beko.

Beko has different price points and is stocked by John Lewis.  Need I say more    Its a decent Turkish brand.  I would opt for a Beko over an Aga. 

[Roch]

Beko has different price points and is stocked by John Lewis.  Need I say more    Its a decent Turkish brand.  I would opt for a Beko over an Aga.

Yes I was just being silly. I didn't know there was higher range Bekos though.

[ngb1066]

I'm with the Guardian. 

AGAs, to my eye, are aesthetically unappealing and pretentious.  The demonstator's bmi probably puts her in the obese range.  She's hardly a good ad for "healthy eating" especially given she's cooking what looks like white rice    Smug (not Smeg) from nr Cambridge.

Check this out:

https://www.miele.co.uk/c/miele-experience-centre-cambridge-11492.htm 

The build quality of AGAs is now very poor.  They are also very inefficient and inflexible.  The Everhot is a much superior product.

[Curiosity]

The build quality of AGAs is now very poor.  They are also very inefficient and inflexible.  The Everhot is a much superior product.

Still pretty steep at 7,000 to 16,000 smackers each + 300 min. for devilry -

https://everhot.co.uk/buying/buying-an-everhot/

Think I'll stick with a humble, no-thrills gas cooker for £240-£500 from Argos before net-zero Millibrand works his wicked way -

https://www.argos.co.uk/browse/appliances/cookers-ovens-and-hobs/freestanding-cookers/c:29623/type:gas-cookers/

[Roch]

The grill looks OK. Bit pricey though.

[Cambridgecutie]

The build quality of AGAs is now very poor.  They are also very inefficient and inflexible.  The Everhot is a much superior product.

First time I've heard of The Everhot. 

[ngb1066]

First time I've heard of The Everhot.

They are expensive but very good, much better in every way than Aga.

[Roch]

They are expensive but very good, much better in every way than Aga.

Do you like to cook much ngb?

[Curiosity]

Do you like to cook much ngb?

That will be left to Mrs.Bridges Downstairs.

[Curiosity]

First time I've heard of The Everhot.

Not as good as the old solid-fuel WHF version of the AGA which would heat domestic hot water continuously as well as cook, bake and warm the kitchen simultaneously. In the days when home-grown phurnacite/anthracite and coal were inexpensive, but that benefit was abandoned in 2014 when oil, gas and electric AGAs became the norm.

Even electricity-driven Everhots are just cookers which don't provide domestic hot water, so you would need a gas/oil heater or other device, say heat pump maybe, for that purpose.

[Roch]

That will be left to Mrs.Bridges Downstairs.

Ha ha. I can imagine ngb telling Mrs Bridges that guests are coming and could she prepare a light supper.

[Jane]

Not as good as the old solid-fuel WHF version of the AGA which would heat domestic hot water continuously as well as cook, bake and warm the kitchen simultaneously. In the days when home-grown phurnacite/anthracite and coal were inexpensive, but that benefit was abandoned in 2014 when oil, gas and electric AGAs became the norm.

Even electricity-driven Everhots are just cookers which don't provide domestic hot water, so you would need a gas/oil heater or other device, say heat pump maybe, for that purpose.

Our aga  was born in the 1930s. It's never gone wrong.

[Curiosity]

Our aga  was born in the 1930s. It's never gone wrong.

Oooh, risky to say that Jane, unless you've got a wooden object within easy reach to touch.

[Jane]

Oooh, risky to say that Jane, unless you've got a wooden object within easy reach to touch.

My partner says there isn't anything which can go wrong, other than an oil blockage .perhaps, but that has nothing to do with the Aga.