If you have bought an aga, or are thinking of buying one in the near future, then you may be pleasantly surprised to find out there are a few helpful aga cooking tips that you can bear in mind when planning your culinary treats. These tips have been passed down from generation to generation and there are new ways in which you can use these helpful hints to your advantage coming about all the time.
Cleaning your Aga
One tip that you may find handy to know, is when thinking of cleaning your aga. When making a hot drink, or boiling the water for any other reason, use the kettle to make your job of cleaning the aga much quicker and involving less scrubbing.
By facing the kettle in a specific way, you can use the boiling kettle to provide steam and essentially, steam clean your aga.
When you face the spout of the kettle towards the hotplate, the steam leaving it will make wiping up any spills much easier and will leave it clean and shiny. With this technique, you are technically killing two birds with one stone, and cleaning the hotplate while making a drink.
Easy Aga firelighters
Another helpful tip I wish to share with you, will save you money and also a bit of effort.
If you are preparing foods that involve lemons, oranges or limes, keep the skins of the fruit and dry them out in the warming oven for a couple of days. Once this baking is complete, you will find that these make great firelighters in the winter and not only that, but they will make the aga smell lovely and fresh, and also your kitchen, should you leave the door open.
These fruit skins work in these ways because they retain all of their natural oils and they burn really well. This way, you have no need to buy firelighters and you can also freshen up the smell of your aga.
Rayburn dinner party tip
If you want to plan for a dinner party, or just prepare a meal for the evening, then you can use the simmering oven to your advantage. If you have to go to work, or just go about cleaning your house, then why not make a stew or a casserole, put it in the oven and leave it all day. It will cook slowly, meaning that the meat will be nice and tender, and you don’t have to sit there and stare at the food every now and again to make sure it is cooking as you want it to.
Aga Receipes
You will learn, as you cook with your aga, different things that can help you out and it is these things that you will pass on, whether it be by word of mouth, or whether you choose to enter your helpful advice onto internet forums and other such sites. One person in particular has written a book on essential aga cooking tips, and this book is available from most book stores and also online. If you are thinking of buying an aga, or already have one, it might be worth purchasing this book to ensure that you are making the most of your kitchen appliance. There are helpful hints on how to save money, how to cook certain dishes easier and cheaply, as well as letting the reader know how they can use their aga to help with other household jobs.
Use and pass on your Aga
If you have inherited your aga, you may find that the person that leaves you the aga, or even if you buy one second hand, will leave you with some great advice that may have been handed down to them. Due to the aga’s design not changing in so many years, the advice has been passing down for many years, and still applies today.
There are websites, books, and much more all dedicated to the spread of the aga’s hints, and it is definitely wise to check such things out, as you may be making life harder for yourself by not using them!
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