Tuesday 22 April 2014

Official AGA Approved Home Ambassador

My AGA dates from 1949!
The beastly Falcon Dominator - now gone!
Once upon a time I was a very happy girl with my very own beloved AGA which I'd owned for about 10 years.  She dates from 1949 and was completely restored, renovated and converted to run on oil just before I bought her.  It was love at first sight.  For years we've been inseparable.  Day in day out, month in month out she's my constant.  None of this nonsense of turning off the heat for "the summer months" - for me an AGA is for life not just for winter!  The beastly commercial Falcon Dominator gas range on the other side of my kitchen became redundant from word go and was never lit again!  It has spent the last ten years with a marble slab laid across its top and worked as a useful pastry board!

Wanting to do more with my AGA I teamed up with the AGA Home Business gang from the AGA Rangemaster Group and learned more about this iconic brand I've now formed a relationship with AGA to become an official AGA Approved Home Ambassador.  In order to be up to date with the latest the company has to offer I realised I had to get with the modern age!  Enter my iTotal Control!  Here's Shawn from AGA doing a site inspection and measuring up before installation.  In the meantime, out goes Falcon and after a bit of wiring the space is ready for the new girl to arrive.  Note the AGA biscuit tin awaiting its new friend!



Shawn from AGA, measuring up.
It's official!  I'm an AGA Ambassador

Biscuits
Plenty of space for an AGA


Early one morning the yard is filled with the official AGA van and a whopping big lorry carrying its cargo of iron and the latest electronic gadgetry.  
Early one morning…..
My first glimpse….
Here's my first sight of the iconic logo as the installation team cased the joint!
Easy does it…..!
After a bit of man-handling, off she came down the steps and into my kitchen.
Three men at work
Three men at work, piping, wiring and drilling.


All done…...
Here's Barry admiring his handiwork

Boiling point!
  The first and quickest thing I could think to cook was a pot of potatoes for supper!

Delicious cheesy souffles
However, later in the evening I produced a tray of soufflés to celebrate with a bottle of fizz to wash them down.

Simnel cake...
Easter's just passed and here's my Simnel cake sitting next to matching AGA cake tins.
This is my AGA iTotal Control which I can operate manually, with a remote control (just like a TV!), via a text from my iPhone and using the App.  Total control from anywhere in the World!  Apart from the chef Marco Pierre White, I think I'm the only person in the country (World, even, maybe) who has not one but two AGAs in a kitchen!!  Spoilt or what?!
Fancy a cup of tea?  The boiling plate is hot for the kettle in about 12 minutes from cold.  Make a cake?  Just switch on the baking oven and it'll heat to temperature while you'll finding and mixing the ingredients.  
If you'd like to know more about living and cooking with the latest electric AGA - do get in touch and arrange to come for a Cook Dem.