You had a shoe box?!

 

That watch is old and all faded...cant even see the numbers around the edge. If you really loved Mrs Fruit, you would sell this old junk and get here a new AGA.








dibs.

 

@kov thats an impressive story that I never heard before. It's always cool to know what's going on behind the scenes.

@Spacefruit I'm sure you'll find a way to manage to get an AGA and keep the Speedy. Maybe sell a different one ;-)

 

you might be able to save a little bit on the Aga

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Hilarious! Worst EBay photo ever contender I think, but Love that duck though , it's not quite oven ready!

 

Indeed... all of those things are true, but once you've tasted an AGA breakfast.....

 

Amen, the great AGA breakfast- you're right it's the best!

A picture of a Watch



A breakfast

 

Hhmmmmm Breakfast ………Either completely carbonised …or dramatically undercooked……

Until after 5 years of AGA ownership… you have worked out how the temperature gauge works

 

The simple economics of AGA running costs…are the equivalent of having a open brazier in the kitchen…into which you very regularly throw £10 notes.

( There is NO grill btw, & "no capacity for turning something down to a precise simmer…you can either watch your pasta boil dry in two minutes flat… or come back for it tomorrow" )

Try reading Mark Mason's hilarious article in The Spectator

 

all AGAs are ovens. all speedmasters are NOT 2998-1s (with a lollipop hand and faded DON bezel).

i think i have that right?

 

...faded (ghost) DON BASE 1000 bezel...much hotter than any oven could ever get IMHO...

 

A few little Aga gags for your pleasure:

"I know a bloke who buys old ones, does them up and ships them to the middle East!

We call him the Aga-Khan"

 

That's funny - first time it has been explained with such clarity.

A few years ago the Viking at my sister's house was having igniter issues. My sister, who generally does not do more then boil water or heat frozen dinners, made my brother-in-law's life a living hell for months because apparently an Aga was the only range in the world that doesn't suck. It was going to be $15k. My BIL is a sensible guy, so one day he drove 2 hours to Reading, PA and picked up a Buestar. My sister fumed for weeks, but finally conceded it was plenty good to get the job done. At that time a 6-burner was $5k, so he came out way ahead.

Watch content - the BILhas a Patek.

 

Yeah

She still wants an aga.

You guys must all know by now, logic doesn't change wives minds.

 

The silly thing about owning more than 1 iteration of the same watch, is that you can't use "logic" in a purchase argument.
We shot ourselves in the foot here...

 

This is a truth rarely spoken aloud, and then only between males of the species whilst carefully observing no female comes within earshot. It is a truth that should never be committed to writing where it might later be found and used to incriminate the author.

 

Mind your own foot when telling all Speedmasters are "same watch"

 

That's why we love them (women). We don't understand them, they don't understand us, but as long as there is enough bidirectional acceptance it matters not.

If these Aga's are so big, then there is a solution to throw in a bit of normality into the cooking process : simply build it big enough that in one of the side-compartements you can hide a normal (decent) gas stove...problem solved

 

I guess it depends on the wife...