Owners Guide
17
Guide to AGA Cooking
AGA OVENS OVEN TEMPERATURE
ROASTING OVEN
● Grilling
● Scones
● Pastries
● Bread
● Yorkshire puddings
● Roasts
● Shallow frying
BAKING OVEN
● Cakes
● Biscuits
● Fish
● Shepherds pie, Cottage pie
● Lasagne
● Soufflés
● Shortbread
SLOW COOK
● Casseroles
● Stock
● Milk puddings
● Meringues
● Rich fruit cake
HIGH
● Top - grilling
● 2nd runner - scones, small pastries, grilling
● 3rd runner - bread rolls , Yorkshire pudding
● 4th runner - roasts, poultry
● Oven grid shelf on base of oven -
bread loaves, pies, roast vegetables
● Floor grid on base of oven - quiches, pies
MODERATE
● Towards top - whisked sponges, some biscuits,
small cakes
● Middle - fish, soufflés, shepherd and cottage pie,
lasagne
● Oven grid shelf on base of oven -
Victoria sandwiches, shortbread, traybakes and
cheesecake
LOW
For casseroles, stock, milk puddings and similar
dishes bring to heat elsewhere on the AGA then
transfer to the simmering oven (one exception is
meringues). Rich fruit cakes can be cooked here
for a, long time on the oven grid shelf placed on the
base of the oven.
Below is a quick guide to oven usage