Aga Brings Touch-Screen, Instant-On Tech to Cast-Iron Ovens

Pretend you're living in the 1940s, but without the inconvenience of waiting for anything, ever

An Aga kitchen range is many things. It?s an oven. It heats the home, and it makes a great place for the cat to cuddle up and sleep. What it isn?t is quick to fire up, or high-tech. A new model of the cult-favorite cooker will change that.

Aga?s run on gas or oil and ? more recently ? electricity. But thanks to their design and heavy cast-iron construction, they can take half a day to get hot, which is somewhat impractical. In the winter you leave them running and they heat the house and provide hot water. In the summer they?re just a pain in the butt.

The new Aga Total Control fixes this by putting electric heating elements in the doors and walls, so the cooker can be up to temperature in just eight minutes. It is also controlled by a touch screen, hidden behind a panel on one of the oven doors. This panel will also allow remote-control from other sources: Aga plans an iPhone app which will let you switch the thing on from work, for example, so the kitchen will be snug and warm when you arrive home.

The price for this technological anachronism will be ?9,600, or $15,500. Given that the base model goes for an already steep ?9,000 ($14,500), that?s not too bad.

Aga Total Control product page [(currently stuck in a login loop) AGA via the Telegraph and Twitter]

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Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/05/aga-brings-touch-screen-instant-on-tech-to-cast-iron-ovens/

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