On 13 Jan 2006 01:07:12 -0800, wrote:

As you see many Rayburn owners turn them off in the summer and make do
with an ordinary cooker instead. They only need to take a small logical
step to understand that this makes the Rayburn redundant as a cooker.
Not to mention that most Aga owners also have a collection of toasters,
electric kettles, microwaves, baby belling hot plates etc etc to make
up for the deficiencies of the Agas.

That's urban legend.

Rayburns were an improvement on the open fired range which in turn was
better than a fire in the middle of the living room floor, but things
have really moved on over the last 80 years or so. So it takes half an
hour or so to get up to heat - lighting and cooking on open fires can
be faster than that!

This of course misses the whole point. In the way that it (very
effectively) works, the storage cooker concept has been improved on by
the use of modulating burners for certain fuel types. The so-called
"modern" add-ons are not necessary or beneficial since the standard
appliance does cooking jobs in a far more effective and controllable
way than these can anyway.


Latest models have added gas burners and electric ovens etc. They are
evolving slowly and will eventually perform just as well as proper
modern conventional cookers - which is what they will be!


In fact they perform better, as originally designed than so called
"modern" cookers which dry out the food, cook it unevenly, have a "one
size fits all" control of temperature and overheat the room that they
are in.

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..andy