I've always loved Martha's instructional segments. Something about her voice feels like home. I wish these older videos were released. I certainly collect them. Thanks Martha!!!!
Me too! I wish Martha would release the WHOLE series on DVD. I would definitely collect them all too. They're informative, educational, helpful, and always interesting.
I finally got my 4 oven electric AGA in 2007 and I absolutely love it. The cost was about the same as putting in an inground pool but I use it every day and the food is so incredible. When planning the space for the AGA I made sure to leave space on both sides for heat-proof topped trolley carts on wheels which can be moved out of the way for cleaning. We moved last year and it was expensive to move the AGA but so worth it. I can't imagine going back to a regular oven.
familyteacher It’s sad, the disingenuous praise AGA owners will indulge in, in futile attempts to convince THEMSELVES they weren’t robbed for thousands to own an old iron clunker with a nice new paint job that bleeds them dry on energy bills. I feel for you guys, but really... cut the crap and be honest.
Look. Martha has to be an alien from outer space. How ANYONE can be this organized and creative is beyond me. I have a number of her cookbooks and considering all her careers (stock broker, media bigwig selling stuff in target etc etc. I just love her stuff (food related) and have to admire the depth of what she is capable of. Set aside all that can be said negative. It is still pretty freaking amazing....
I think she's a genius. Not in the same way as Einstein, and not even exactly a creative genius, such as Walt Disney was. She's a type of genius that falls somewhere in between being a creative genius and a scientific genius.
this was 1985 she was just becoming known after her 1982 book "entertaining" It was filmed in the kitchen of her Turkey Hill home (or a set that replicated it). They never paid her but she did recieve a free oven.
We didn't get the AGA Cooker because we live in the desert. But, we recently purchased the AGA Legacy 36 and LOVE IT!! It is an awesome piece of equipment and worth every cent!
A wood burning AGA is much cheaper to run than an electric or gas range, and it can also heat your domestic hot water and/or hydronic heating water while heating your kitchen with radiant firebox heat! Also, it will last for several generations if taken care of properly. It is the cheapest, greenest, and most efficient type of central boiler system you will ever see! Although I personally prefer the Esse which is very similiar.
I have been binge-watching all things AGA in that last day, and I have noticed, her turkey came out . . . or at least we are led to believe . . . out of the same oven it was put in, very brown all over. I watched a couple Turkey making videos in the AGA (recently made) and the turkeys were not brown all over. It appeared that the browning was coming from the left-side of the oven where the heat was being generated. The right side of the turkey was not brown at all. Which makes me wonder if the heat on the right-side was working? My question is, since this is a radiant heat oven - heat is radiating from all sides - are the older AGA's made better? I believe Martha's video had to have been made in the 80's or early 90's. I saw one lady who cooked hers in the roasting oven, then she had to switch it to the baking oven to get the brown like Martha's. Does this indicate that there is a problem with the roasting oven? Does it need to have someone look at it if this happens?
I'm so sad many of your vintage Martha Stewart videos are deleted or marked private. With our Amazon Fire stick I was hoping to watch some on television but they are no longer available. So sad :(((((
because the "average" oven is only occasionally used...people who actually cook by an aga/esse/rayburn...if you used a modern gas oven to bake bread, cook 3 meals per day, can food, and heat all your hot water it would use much much more fuel because they are nowhere near as efficient!
Ridiculously expensive to buy (a giant piece of cast iron) and ridiculously expensive to use (it is essentially four oven constantly left on, wastes a LOT of fuel). A good set of cast iron pans, griddles, and Dutch ovens will do the same exact jobs
@@Luckingsworth they really won't. Food tastes entirely different from an Aga, it's much simpler, and actually when you run the maths running a conventional stove 3 times a day is more expensive for a few reasons, but mainly the Aga is very very fuel efficient and it traps the heat, wheras a conventional stove uses direct heating. My energy bills are far less than my neighbours, and it also doubles as a place to huddle around in winter instead of either a fire or running central heating, so again this all stacks up and you wind up saving a ton of money and having mind blowingly amazing food. There seriously is no comparison to having some cast iron pots. you have to taste aga food to understand the difference, once people own them they can't return to conventional heat source cooking.
@@ladycroftbayonetta7908 but he's wrong. conventional cooking works out fuel wise more expensive, and cast iron pans do not compare to flavour from an aga, its a completely different mode of heating and cooking food. The nearest thing you might possibly find, but still not even that close its perhaps a crockpot, but that only cooks food from below, an aga the heat is coming from all directions, gentle but penetrating so it really gets to the core of the food. It's an entirely different process you have to taste it to believe it.
And she NEVER used the blasted things again, because... OF COURSE NOT! Completely impractical and cost-prohibitive to operate. To say nothing of being ridiculously expensive. If the purchase price doesn’t kill you, the energy bills will. It stays on 24/7, sucking up gas, oil, wood, or electricity. If all you want is kitchen bling, then it’s perfect. But keep a REAL range, as well for actual everyday cooking.
I'm so sad many of your vintage Martha Stewart videos are deleted or marked private. With our Amazon Fire stick I was hoping to watch some on television but they are no longer available. So sad :(((((
