Other Uses for your Aga Oven

Warm Plates
Keep your plates warm before dinner by sticking them in the plate warming rack in the Vertical Convection Oven. Or warm up your mug in the morning while waiting for coffee to brew.

Dry Linens
Hang dinner napkins or tablecloths over the hang rail to dry or smooth out wrinkles before use.

Making Jam
Use up over-ripe fruit before it goes bad by turning it into jam with your Aga simmering plate and simmering oven. Try this recipe for Damson Plum Jam and don’t forget you can also use your Aga to sterilize the jars you will be putting the jam into.

Keep Wooden Utensils Clean
Store wooden or bamboo kitchen utensils and cutting boards above your Aga range to keep them dry. Since they are so porous, bacteria can easily grow if they aren’t properly dried. You could also put cutting boards in the plate warming rack of your Aga Legacy after washing.

Food Prep
Try defrosting or thawing out meat or seafood in your Aga oven instead of the microwave.

Incubating
If you really want to get the most of your oven, try incubating chick or goose eggs. I found these articles discussing how chicks were nursed to life by the heat of an Aga oven range. You may want to do more research before attempting this, however.

Aga Saga

You may already know how an Aga appliance works, but what you may not know is the meaning of Aga Saga. The term is used to describe a certain type of novels about middle class families living in rural areas of the United Kingdom. These Aga Sagas are written about characters that are likely to own an Aga oven, a popular luxury appliance in Europe.

The name was introduced by Terrence Blacker in an article in Publishing News specifically targeting author, Joanna Trollope. Though only two of her twelve books could be described by this term, she is still the main Aga Saga target. She has been quoted saying "I am fairly tired of such an inaccurate and patronising tag" and "I will be queen of the Aga Saga to my dying day. Its jolly annoying".

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Cooking with an Aga Oven

Most of us own conventional ovens that cook our food through convection- a cycle of the heating followed by the cooling of air within the oven. The hot air is what actually cooks the food at the temperature you specify. As a result of alternating temperatures, your food could become over-cooked from a blast of heat at the end of the cooking cycle, attempting to quickly heat the entire oven. Traditional ovens are generally electric or gas. An electric oven constantly re-circulates air which leads to warm and cool spots inside of the oven which may cause food to overcook or dry out.

Aga, a company rooted in Great Britain since 1922, manufactures appliances featuring two, three or four individual compartments. The Aga ovens still run on either electricity or gas and have burners like a conventional oven. However, the heat is better circulated through the smaller compartments. The Aga Six Four series offers one section in particular that cooks food slower than the others. The heat stored within the walls radiates, cooking food evenly from all directions. This process not only makes it less difficult to burn or dry out your food, but retains flavor and nutrients.

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