On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 02:22:44 GMT, hahabogus <
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>Arri London <
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>>>
>>> In rec.food.cooking, Lucretia Borgia
>>> <
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>>> > On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 04:31:04 +0000 (UTC),
>>> >
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>>> > >I don't understand the appeal.
>>>
>>> > I had one eons ago in a farmhouse kitchen when I lived
>>> > on the wilds of Dartmoor. It was a little different to
>>> > get used to cooking with it, but once done, hard to be
>>> > a bad cook with an Aga. Roasts in particular tasted
>>> > very extra special. A shelf over the Aga was the ideal
>>> > place for rising yeast products.
>>>
>>> > I would have one again in a flash, only price dictates
>>> > I may not.
>>>
>>> I now understand. This newsgroup has lots of valuable
>>> information.
>>>
>>> The place where I saw the Aga was a kind of workingman's
>>> victorian, with a hasty, unfinished, poorly planned
>>> yuppie renovation. The kitchen was too small and too
>>> well insulated for the beast. The Aga may well have been
>>> misadjusted, given the poor planning and execution of
>>> the balance of the renovation.
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>> Unlikely the kitchen was well insulated. In a cheap
>> renovation, kitchen insulation normally isn't very
>> important and often just doesn't exist.
>>>
>>> But I now know that in a big farmhouse (or mansion)
>>> kitchen, with unheated servant's quarters upstairs, an
>>> Aga would be great.
>>
>> LOL the unheated servant's quarters wouldn't be right
>> above the kitchen, in any case. Servants are normally
>> either in the basement or in the attics.
>>>
>>> Thanks all who explained the proper place for an Aga. I
>>> now think that they are kind of cool, instead of being
>>> kind of foolish.
>>>
>>
>>> - The Who
>>
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>Aga's have won many design awards over the years at one
>time a tech would come to site from the british factory to
>install it. Even the one in Antartica (sp??)
I also forgot to add that I did not have a dryer in those
days, didn't have a washing machine either for that matter,
but did have three little kids and all those diapers. In the
foggy Dartmoor climate, the racks that one could lower from
the ceiling and hang the washing on were divine life savers.
Sheena