AGA Christmas Guide: Naomi Hansell's Top Tips for Newer AGA Models

AGA eR7 Series

Set the roasting oven to R9 and the baking oven to B4 on Christmas morning, allowing 40 mins for the roasting oven for heat from cold or 15 mins from slumber, and 20 mins for the baking oven to heat from cold and 10 mins from slumber.

To cook a turkey, roast in the baking oven on B4. Use the fast, medium (no need to start the turkey in the roasting oven first) or slow methods. Use the roasting oven for roast potatoes, pigs in blankets and the mushroom wellington and similar dishes.

AGA eR3 and AGA 60 Series

Turn the top oven to baking setting early on Christmas morning or use the timer to turn it on for you. Turn the lower oven on. Allow an hour for the ovens to heat from cold.

Cook the turkey on baking setting for the times as above. Once the turkey is cooked, set it aside to rest, turn the top oven to roasting setting, allow 30 mins for the oven to heat fully to roasting setting then cook the roast potatoes, pigs in blankets and reheat the chefs vegetables.

AGA R3 Series

Turn the top oven to full early on Christmas morning or the night before if you prefer. Turn the low oven either to full or to half (simmering) setting depending on how you wish to cook your turkey.

Allow 2.5 hrs for the ovens to heat to full from cold and an hour to heat from e setting. Cook the turkey in the lower oven on baking (full) setting. Alternatively, set the lower oven to simmering (half) setting and cook the turkey using the slow method, starting in the roasting oven and continuing to cook in the simmering oven.

Cook the roast potatoes in the roasting oven. If the turkey is cooked using the lower oven on full setting, once the turkey is taken out of the oven,, turn the lower oven down to simmering (half) setting, allow to cool down for half an hour or so then it can be used on simmering setting to steam a Christmas pudding, to steam or slow braise vegetables and to make turkey stock.

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