Promote your cook to an AGA

“She was a good cook as cooks go, and as cooks go, she went.”

It is not difficult to imagine how Saki’s famous epigram originated.  When cook had to prepare ten gargantuan courses at a black and beetling range she had good cause to grumble.  To have her chef-dœuvre sabotaged by the whim of some monstrous stove, to emulate the antics of a primitive alchemist, was enough to make the most placid woman in the world see red.  Today modern invention has done much to make cook’s job a happier and healthier one, but it has been left to the AGA to typify the world’s idea of a modern cooker.  Its cream and chromium cleanliness; its miraculous economy of fuel; its gift of meeting cooks three-quarters of the way.  The AGA cooker has brought happiness to over 30,000 kitchens and means a peaceful new ear of good temper in the great downstairs.

There are people who will never like an AGA cooker, but then there are still folk who will think the worse of vacuum cleaners and motor cars.  Cooks do not take long to fall in love with an AGA and kitchen maids too are just as sentimentally attached to it.

Any cook who knows her job will appreciate an AGA as the finest cooking machine she can have.  Firstly it is always ready for us and this means there is no waiting for temperatures or boosting fires.  She will probably be able to have an extra half hour abed in the morning.  Then there is the famous AGA simmering oven which will look after a whole meal while she takes a nap.  Her fruit bottling and jam making are both greatly simplified.  An when she must rise to an occasion her AGA will help her serenely as it will boil an egg for tea.

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