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The top plate
The top plate is the enamelled surface surrounding the
hotplates. It will become warm when the AGA Total
Control hotplates are in use. Although it is not a cooking
surface you can use the warmth for a number of useful
activities, which more often than not saves time and
washing-up! These include warming honey or syrup in the
jar, or melting butter or chocolate in a basin - so saving
on melting over a saucepan - do please put the basin
on a cork mat or folded piece of kitchen towel to avoid
scratching the enamel. Although it is a durable and hard-
wearing surface vitreous enamel is glass and will show
scratch marks!
The top plate when warm can also be used to rest a cup
of coee or tea or dry o awkwardly shaped tins, peelers
or food mixer and processor parts.
The ovens
The roasting oven for high temperature cooking.
Oering a range of cook settings B4, R6, R7, R8, and R9.
The baking oven for moderate temperature cooking.
Oering a range of cook settings B1, B2, B3, and B4.
The simmering oven for long, slow cooking. Fixed at
simmering temperature.
DO NOT OPERATE THIS APPLIANCE WITH THE DOORS
OPEN, SINCE THIS CAN CAUSE A LOCK-OUT.
Each oven has the same capacity, (able to t a 13kg
(28lb) turkey) and the classic AGA heat-storage cooker
techniques can be used such as stacking of saucepans in
the simmering oven. This enables the steaming of root
vegetables, rice, steamed pudding, casserole, poaching
fruit all in the same oven leaving the hotplates free.
You can have one, two or all three ovens on at their pre-
set heat or the roasting and baking ovens can also be
at ‘Slumber’ mode, (the simmering oven is always at the
same heat).
The ovens are made from cast iron, which cooks by
a radiant heat and this is the secret of the cooking
excellence for which the AGA cooker is renowned. An
indirect radiant heat does not dry food out, so it retains its
natural moisture and avour.
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