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AGA Information

Aga Cookers – a potted history

The AGA cooker is a stored-heat oven invented in 1922 by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist Dr.Gustaf Dalen, who also founded the AGA company. In 1912, Dr. Dalen lost his sight following an explosion during an experiment with pressurized liquids and gases.

Forced to stay at home, Dr. Dalen discovered that his wife was exhausted by cooking. Although unable to see, he was determined to develop a new cooker stove that was both capable of every culinary technique and easy to use. It is also capable of heating a house.
Adopting the time-honored principle of heat storage, he combined a small and efficient heat source, two large hotplates and two generous ovens into one robust and compact unit — the AGA Cooker.

Aga cookers were introduced to England in 1929 and their popularity in certain parts of English society (owners of medium to large country houses) led to the term “AGA Saga” being used to refer to a genre of fiction set amongst stereotypical AGA cooker owners.

AGA is an abbreviation of the company name, Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator.

The current range of Aga cooker models consist of the traditional 2 oven Aga, a recently introduced 3 oven Aga and a 4 oven Aga which is wider than the other models in order to accommodate the 4 ovens and burner. The 2 oven model has 3 doors behind which are the burner, roasting oven and simmering oven. The 3 oven model adds a baking oven to these, while the 4 oven adds a warming oven and warming plate on the top. All Aga cooker models have 2 hotplates – a boiling plate and a simmering plate.

The fuel for each of these models is one of  kerosene (paraffin oil), natural gas, propane gas, night-storage electric or 13Amp electric. We are also one of the only companies still able to offer solid fuel models.

In terms of weekly fuel consumption, Aga expects the 2 oven Aga cooker to consume 40 litres of kerosene or diesel, 60 litres of propane gas, 425kWh of natural gas or 220kWh for the electric models. To put this into perspective, the average domestic natural gas consumption in the UK is 386.75kWh per week.