Which is the simmering oven

Back to Main Article. The 5 oven AGA has a roasting, 2 simmering, a baking and a warming oven. The top of the roasting oven is very hot! This makes it perfect for grilling, tasty crackling on pork roasts and browning dishes. The top of this oven is also perfect for Yorkshire puddings, and pies and pastries. I now enjoy cooking on it and feel more relaxed with it than I do with a regular cooker.

I actually want to bake, especially Welsh cakes! It is the most straightforward, responsive, forgiving cooker you will ever use — and it cooks beautifully too! Just think of the AGA as a normal cooker, with two hot plates and four ovens, which just happen to be on constantly, with the ovens set at constant temperatures suitable for all types of cooking.

Facing the AGA, the left-hand hot plate is a boiling plate and the right-hand hot plate a simmering plate. The top right oven is a roasting oven — degrees; the bottom-right oven is a baking oven — degrees; the top-left oven is a simmering oven degrees; and the bottom — left oven is a warming oven — 50 degrees. There is a thermometer which you can place in any oven to check the temperature. The main control for the AGA we have at Millbrook is the flow of oil, controlled by a simple valve.

In the unlikely event that the ovens are not hot enough, it is simply a case of turning the control valve slightly! If the temperature is too high, turn the control valve slightly to the right — it really is that easy.

If you enjoy slow-cooked food, just leave your favourite dish in the appropriate oven, head off for a long hill walk, visit a Border castle, an atmospheric ancient church or a bustling market town and when you get back Oven and Hot-plate Average Temperatures and Dimensions.

Boiling Plate Left mm inner diameter mm useable with expansion ring , degrees celsius. Simmering Plate Right mm inner diameter mm useable with expansion ring , degrees celsius.

Roasting Oven Top Right mm wide, mm high, mm deep, approximately degrees celsius measured at the top. Baking Oven Bottom Right mm wide, mm high, mm deep, approximately degrees celsius measured at the top.

Simmering Oven Top Left mm wide, mm high, mm deep, approximately degrees celsius measured at the top. Plate-Warming Oven Bottom Left mm wide, mm high, mm deep, approximately 65 degrees celsius measured at the top.