Dual Control AGA

The AGA Dual Control is everything you love about the AGA cooker, but with added flexibility and reduced running costs and is available a dual-fuel version with ovens heated by a powered or conventional (chimney) flue gas burner.

The AGA Dual Control looks much like a traditional AGA cooker and – just like the traditional model – the cast-iron ovens can be always available for use, creating that indefinable AGA warmth.

However, with an AGA Dual Control the two hotplates can be turned on and off independently. This means you can make a reduction in the overall heat input into the room from the cooker when desired and, in turn, reduce running costs. The boiling plate and simmering plate can be operated at the turn of a switch via the discrete control panel and so are on when you need them and off when you don’t.

Not only does the AGA Dual Control cook using the same principles as a traditional AGA – using indirect radiant heat – but it can also cost a lot less to run than you would think.

The AGA Dual Control has been designed to be simple to use. There’s one control to operate the hotplates, and a single control for the roasting, baking and simmering ovens and, on the 5-oven model, a separate button operates the additional two ovens and warming plate.

How the hotplates work

Behind the top left hand door sits a small dial which operates either the boiling plate, the simmering plate or both. In each of the hotplates there is a powerful heating element. The boiling plate will be ready to use in around 11 minutes from cold. The simmering plate will be ready to use in around 8 minutes.

How the ovens work

As with all previous heat-storage AGA cookers, the cast-iron ovens are indirectly heated from a single small heat source, the heat being conducted across to each oven in exactly the correct proportions to provide the different cooking temperatures for roasting, baking and simmering. This provides kind-to-food radiant heat which locks in moisture and goodness. On the larger five oven model, the left-hand ovens are a slow-cooking oven and warming oven. This part of the cooker has its own separate heat source; this section of the cooker is brought to temperature when required with a separate on-off button.