AGA 30 Amp Versus Everhot - Is it time to change?
An element failed three weeks ago on my AGA 30 Amp and I went to get the last one out of my box of elements in my loft and when I picked it up it was obviously broken so of no use. I went to eBay and ordered two. The seller said delivery within two days. We waited two days but it didn't turn up.
As we cook our own food every night I then had an idea of how to cook our food. Two weeks previously I had bought an Everhot for my training kitchen in my office for £750. We had cleaned it but I hadn't plugged it in to see if it worked. So I've now plugged it in and it works very well.
So for the last two weeks (the elements from eBay - now bought from 2 sellers still haven't turned up) I have been cooking our evening meal in our office and then taking the cooked food home - it's a two minute walk.
But the Everhot has been surprising. It heated up very quickly and the ovens are at the temperatures set on the panel. And its fabulous to use.
The Everhot top plates seem to be a lot hotter on the Everhot. I think its because the whole of the Everhot top gets very hot. Whereas on the AGA just the top plates get very hot. The ovens are set at the same as my AGA runs so 250C for the main oven and 120 for the simmering oven. So cooking as been much the same. Though there is a difference in that the heat source in the Everhot is at the bottom - the elements in the ovens are at the bottom - so the hottest part of the oven is at the bottom which is in reverse of the AGA.
The Everhot does have a grill to make up for this but Everhot have told me that I need to run the oven at lower temp for the grill to work (the Everhot seller said the grill wasn't working - I emailed Everhot and they told me that the grill rarely went wrong but running the main oven too hot meant it wouldn't work). I haven't tried this yet.
So after trying lots of different places for a new 30 Amp single element I've finally found one - Rural Ranges are sending me a new one tomorrow. So the AGA will be back in action.
So in all we like the Everhot. My son has been cooking pizzas on it and likes it, and mentioned he liked the individual temperature controls for the ovens and top plates. I like it and have been thinking after all this trouble to find new elements that maybe an Everhot might be a good replacement for my 30 Amp AGA. I've even measured the AGA to see what Everhot will fill the gap. The one that fits is the space is the Everhot EH100i (or EH100) not the one in my office as thats an old Everhot 90 - its ten centimetres too short.
