AGA Range Cookers

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Makes everyday cooking extraordinary.

For over 100 years AGA has remained at the forefront of engineering excellence. AGA Range Cookers embody the best AGA traditions and employ the very latest technology with prestige cookers from 2 to 7 ovens.

When you invest in an AGA Range Cooker, you are acquiring a piece of history, a talking point and a centrepiece for your home. They are assembled in the UK by skilled craftsmen, giving each one a personal touch and unique quality.

AGA: A Century of History

  • 1922

    THE BEGINNING

    The AGA cooker wasn’t conceived in a research facility. It was dreamed up in a kitchen. Its inventor, Dr Gustaf Dalén, was a Swedish physicist blinded in a terrible accident. In 1922 he was convalescing at home when he realised his wife was using a range that was dangerous, dirty and exceptionally time consuming. He wanted to create a cooker that was instead clean, economical to run, easy to use and which produced great food with the minimum fuss. In doing so, he invented a cooker that changed the lives of cooks the world over.

    The AGA was an immediate success and came to Britain in 1929. It has been at home ever since.

  • 1930 - 1940s

    THE ENGLISH LOVE AFFAIR BEGINS

    It was during the 1930s that Britain’s love affair with the AGA really took hold. A key player in this success was David Ogilvy, who went on to found the leading advertising agency, Ogilvy & Mather. While at AGA he wrote The Theory and Practice of Selling an AGA Cooker, which has been described by Fortune magazine as ‘the finest instruction manual ever written’. Amongst his gems of advice, Ogilvy suggests that a successful salesman combine ‘the tenacity of a bulldog with the manners of a spaniel’.

    During the war years the AGA played its part. The British government placed orders for AGA cookers for munitions works, communal feeding centres and hospitals. Demand rose steeply from families too and the waiting period for a new cooker was more than six months.

    In 1947 the company began manufacturing its cookers in Shropshire, where they are still made today.

  • 1950s - 1970s

    NEW COLOURS TO EXCITE

    For 34 years, the AGA had been available only in cream, but in 1956 all that changed. The introduction of the new AGA De Luxe models in pale blue, pale green, grey and white proved hugely popular with AGA lovers. It was around the same time that the famous AGA chrome-plated lid domes were introduced.

    The 1960s saw the first iconic black AGA lozenge logo, which is still used today. But the changes introduced during this time weren’t just cosmetic – solid fuel was falling out of fashion as people wanted cleaner, more convenient energy sources. This led to the launch of oil and gas-fired AGA cookers. The 1970s saw the launch of further new colours, including black, which still proves hugely popular today.

  • 1980s

    THE FIRST ELECTRIC AGA COOKER

    In 1985, AGA launched a landmark model – the 2-oven EC2, the first electric AGA range cooker, followed two years later by the 4-oven EC4. These new models retained all the traditional features for which AGA cookers were known and loved but needed no flue.

    The AGA celebrated its 50th birthday early in the 1980s and in 1981 its status as a national institution was recognised when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher paid a visit. She was shown a brand new AGA in blue. “It’s a lovely colour,” she said, a smile hinting that she thought the choice of shade hinted at a political allegiance. “It was red yesterday!” countered the company chairman to much laughter.

  • 1990s

    THE AGA BOOK BY MARY BERRY

    Publication of The AGA Book established Mary Berry as the definitive AGA writer, with the Mail on Sunday describing her as being “to AGA what Pavarotti is to opera”. It was also during this decade that the term ‘AGA saga’ was coined by novelist Terence Blacker to describe a genre of literature dealing with British country life.

    The AGA module – a conventional electric cooker with quintessentially AGA styling – was launched in 1996. Designed to fit to the left-hand side of AGA cookers, it provided extra cooking capacity and was brilliant when the main AGA was switched off for servicing.

  • 2000s

    THE NEW MILLENIUM

    In 2003, the 3-oven AGA cooker was launched. With the same footprint as occupied by the 2-oven model for the previous 80 years, it was an engineering breakthrough and a major step forward, adding a baking oven for the first time along with the additional capacity.

    The introduction of the 13-amp electric model in 2004 – complete with standard household plug – changed the AGA family forever. It needed no flue and could be fitted almost anywhere in the kitchen.

  • THE PRESENT

    In 2018 and 2019 the AGA eR3 Series collection was launched. Cookers in this range feature a state-of-the-art induction hob and many other innovative features, including the addition of a 90L fan oven, and range in size from 60cm to 170cm.

    Autumn 2019 also saw the launch of the electric AGA 7 Series models. The R7 Series, available in 100cm and 150cm, is designed to have the ovens on all the time giving cosy warmth into your kitchen, whilst having 4 temperature settings, including an economy setting, to save energy and fuel costs.

    The eR7 Series features an easy-to-use touch-screen control panel with 5 heat settings for the roasting oven and 4 settings for the baking oven. Each oven and hotplate is independently controlled enabling the user to control heat output into the kitchen and the amount of energy used.

In a world where everything is constantly changing,
it’s good to find something that lasts forever.

You’ll never see an AGA cooker in landfill because the people who buy them never need to say goodbye. Their renowned longevity and performance guarantee a lifetime of good food and good times. But besides helping to save the planet, there are many more reasons to fall in love with an AGA cooker.

A Lifelong Investment

As we move away from mass-produced items towards those that are handcrafted and sustainable, AGA cookers are the brand of choice for those who want to create a more authentic way of living. They are an antidote to our throwaway culture, where a recently bought appliance or gadget needs to, again, be thrown away or traded in.

Around the world, thousands of AGA cookers are still working perfectly after 50 years of sterling service. AGA cookers also contribute to the circular economy in other significant ways. They are handcrafted with 70 per cent reclaimed iron and recycled materials, including car gearboxes, old machinery, lampposts and even door fittings.

They replace the need for electric toasters and kettles, and their radiant heat warms the heart of the home. The ovens and hotplates of modern AGA cookers can also be switched on and off, as required, meaning energy is not used unnecessarily by these kitchen powerhouses.

A Foodies Dream

AGA cookers are for food lovers and real cooks and keen bakers and anyone who cares about meals that provide comfort, great taste and good nutrition. They are for people who believe in the simple and sustainable pleasures of locally sourced, natural ingredients and they are for the gourmets who think nothing of spending their weekend creating feasts to be savoured by family and friends.

The results speak for themselves, with scientists proving that food prepared in an AGA cooker looks, tastes and smells more appealing. It’s simply better than food cooked in a conventional appliance because it benefits from indirect radiant heat, not convection cooking, they say. “Cooking with an AGA cast iron range cooker is a simpler, more forgiving process than a conventional oven, where there can be a lot more variability in temperature,” explains Dr Wayne Martindale, Associate Professor of Food Insights and Sustainability at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom. “In essence, the AGA is a more predictable oven and that’s great for the eventual results.” Even opening the door on an AGA cooker doesn’t affect temperature to much degree and won’t spoil your baking.

Researchers also found that AGA cookers tend to cook food right through evenly and that these time-tested appliances make it easier to brown cakes and produce mouth-watering, crusty bread.

Add its superior performance to its green credentials, and an AGA cooker is a pretty impressive addition to any home.

A Style Statement

Installing an AGA cooker in any kitchen space elevates not only the look of the room but adds value to a home or a renovation.

From the stunning vitreous enamel finish to its nostalgic lines, an AGA cooker teams iconic good looks with a proud British heritage.

The manufacturing process has evolved over nearly a century, after the first AGA cooker was invented by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr Gustav Dalen.

Molten iron is poured into moulds and every cast is hand-dressed, then heat treated to 800 degrees Celsius and shot-blasted clean.

To finish, each AGA cooker is coated in a gleaming vitreous enamel finish.

What has also evolved, in line with AGA’s increasing desirability, is the choice of cooker colours.

Now style makers and cake bakers can choose from 16 beautiful shades, from Dark Blue to Pewter to Cream, with the choice of matching cast iron lids.

It is differences like these that set the AGA apart from the uniformity of mass-produced cookers and places it in a class of its own.

It’s no surprise, then, that AGA cookers are the choice of many interior designers and home renovators.

A Place to Come Together

An AGA cooker will always be at the heart of every owner’s home, offering warmth, reliability and hospitality, no matter what is happening in the world around us.

It is a place to gather with family and friends, and to share a sense of togetherness, as well as to create a delicious casserole, feather-light crepes, a shepherd’s pie, or a sinfully good crème caramel.

In fact, AGA owners adore their cookers and find it difficult to imagine life without them.

There is no other household appliance that generates this kind of emotion or loyalty.

AGA is more than just a cooker. It’s a way of life.

An AGA for Today

With rising energy costs and changing lifestyles, more existing and prospective AGA owners naturally want to know about the cost of running their AGA heat-storage cooker, and the impact it has on the environment.

The all-electric models in the AGA 7 Series and AGA 3 Series have switch on/switch off hotplates leading to much reduced running costs. In addition, cookers in the eR (every day radiant heat) collection have independently controllable ovens, meaning they can be on when you need them on and off when you don’t.

AGA Cast-Iron Cooker Collection

AGA Range Cooker models feature ovens that cook with radiant heat for food that simply tastes better.

The AGA eR3 and eR7 Series cookers are part of our Everyday Radiant Heat collection and are designed to be switched on when you need them and off when you don't.

The AGA R3 and R7 Series models are designed to remain on all of the time and are part of our 24/7 Radiant Heat collection. 

AGA Everyday Radiant Heat Collection

The eR3 Series the first AGA collection to feature models that combine both cast-iron radiant heat cooking and conventional cooking, so they take flexibility to a whole new level. The mix of ovens, hotplates and an induction hob means you have a cooker for all seasons and one that makes it very easy to manage energy usage

AGA eR3 Series

Models in the AGA eR7 Series collection are powered by electricity and have the iconic good looks you’d expect from an AGA cooker, but with everyday enhanced controllability providing the option to set the ovens to different temperatures. The cast-iron ovens cook using radiant heat, meaning food tastes better and all the flavour, moisture and goodness is locked in.

AGA eR7 Series

AGA 24/7 Radiant Heat Collection

If you love the original – on all the time – AGA, but want added functionality and to save money on running costs, then the new 13-amp AGA R3 Series is the perfect cooker for you. Each oven and hotplate operates independently and, with a high-speed infrared grill and the option of an induction hob, this model seamlessly marries the very latest technology with tradition to offer everything a cook needs. If you have a draughty kitchen, work from home or simply enjoy the cosy AGA warmth in your kitchen, then this is the cooker for you. This model is available in sizes from 90cm to 170cm.

AGA R3 Series

Fully electric, the AGA R7 is controllable, easy-to-use and offers a host of refined features for flexible cooking. The ovens are designed to be left on, so that they are always available for use and provide a gentle warmth to keep your kitchen cosy. 

AGA R7 Series

AGA Modules

The Free-standing Module is designed to stand alone or fit within standard kitchen furniture and can be sited anywhere in the kitchen.

AGA Freestanding Module

BENEFITS OF CAST IRON

AGA food tastes better simply because an AGA cooks better, using kind-to-the-food radiant-heat to seal the food, locking in moisture, goodness and flavour. 

Every AGA cooker comes with a sense of history built in and is manufactured to the same exacting standards that have ensured the AGA cooker's place as one of our most trusted and most cherished British brands.

Molten iron is poured in to moulds and every cast is then hand-dressed, hand treated to 800 degrees Celsius and shot-blasted clean. It is this technique that gives the castings their characteristic surface - each one is unique.  

Each AGA cooker is then coated in a gleaming vitreous enamel finish. 

AGA food tastes better simply because an AGA cooks better, using kind-to-the-food radiant-heat to seal the food, locking in moisture, goodness and flavour.

The heat radiates and is transferred to the cast-iron ovens, releasing steadily from all surfaces simultaneously, ensuring a gentler cooking process than the fierce direct heat of a conventional cooker.

This radiant heat cooking method is what preserves more of the food's moisture, flavour, texture and goodness.

Cast-iron also reduces cooking smells and flavour transfer, making it possible to cook a variety of dishes in the same oven at the same time, unlike other range cookers. 

An AGA provides the easiest way to cook, as its cast-iron ovens are set to reach the optimal temperature for its function. The ovens in an AGA cooker include:

Roasting Oven
The hottest of the AGA ovens, the roasting oven is large enough to accommodate joints of meat, making Sunday roasts and Christmas dinner a breeze. As well as roasting, this oven is ideal for grilling food and for fast, high-temperature baking.

Baking Oven
Much like a traditional baker's brick oven, the AGA baking oven radiates a moderate heat for evenly baked bread and perfectly moist cakes. As cast-iron retains its heat, you can even open the door to check on your bakes.

Simmering Oven
With its warm temperature, the simmering oven is perfect for slow-cooking or finishing dishes such as casseroles, stews and puddings. It can also be used for steaming, as the radiant heat locks in the goodness and structure of vegetables. 

VITREOUS ENAMEL

You have 16 beautiful vitreous enamel colours to choose from when ordering your new AGA Range Cooker, including contemporary neutrals, classic colours and brighter shades.

AGA cast-iron cookers are not spray-painted, instead they are coated with multiple coats of hardwearing vitreous enamel. 

AGA vitreous enamel is comprised of a frit, which is a compound of natural minerals including glass particles and a blend of metal oxides, this is colour matched and mixed to create the characteristic AGA colour shades. 

Multiple coats of the enamel are then applied, layer upon layer, and kiln-fired each time. This vitreous enamel coating offers a strong, easy-to-clean exterior which is resistant to high temperatures and heavy use. 

The AGA cooker's multiple protective coats of vitreous enamel take three days and at least three separate firings to complete and it is this painstaking enamelling process that helps to ensure the working life of an AGA cooker is measured not in years, but decades. 

It is also in part the enamel that gives the AGA a character of its own. Slight variations in the surface finish are usually found and the colour can look different throughout the day as the light in the kitchen changes and as the cooker heats up.

It is differences like this that set the AGA apart from the uniformity of mass-produced cookers and places it in a class of its own.