AGA_Stories
 

Owner: Janet Marques
Model: Cream 4-oven
Vintage: 1952
Location: Hertfordshire
Snapshot: This AGA came as quite a shock to Australian Janet. “I was horrified to discover that, having married my glamorous Englishman, I ended up living in a remote farmhouse and having to cook on an AGA,” she says. “I said to my husband ‘of course, we’ll replace the AGA?’ ‘No’, he replied. ‘They are the Rolls Royce of cookers’.” Janet’s husband compromised by converting the AGA to oil and buying his wife an AGA cookbook. Janet soon found that the gentle cooking style of the AGA meant she burnt things much less and after a couple of years was found to be extolling the virtues of the AGA at a cocktail party. “A man came up to me and asked if I sold AGAs. I replied ‘no, but I could’.”
Finest Hour: “One unusual item boiled in the oven was my husband’s hip joint. His surgeon gave it to him so that it could be mounted on his walking stick.” The family also tried to bring back to life in the warming oven an ailing gerbil – sadly with no success.