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Nuclear-Powered Aga
Aga ranges are available in Gas, Electric and Fuel-oil fired variants... not enough. | |
A nice big Aga slowly chewing it's way through the North
Sea gas reserve as it bakes a cottage pie, inefficiently
boils a kettle and dries a tea towell is a wonderful thing.
The rampant inefficiency warms the heart and also the
kitchen/large outside wall to which it is
attached/supporting.
They are also available in electric
and if you live in the sort of place favoured by horsey-
types... fuel oil.
Now, Aga should make a nuclear powered version. For
several reasons:
1. There will be no noticeable difference in size,
construction or weight.
2. Everyone likes nuclear power
3. It would force Marks and Spencer to mark their
packaging differently: "Heat at 200C/395F, gas mark 6
or
control rod setting 4"
4. You wouldn't run out of oil... like my auntie did. Don't
worry, the horses were fine.
Rayburn stoves, the design choice for Scotland's nuclear future
http://en.wikipedia.../wiki/Rayburn_Range
[calum, Nov 16 2012]
Apparently half of Gloucestershire's already got one.
http://www.newsbisc...ar-powered-aga-297/
[TomP, Nov 17 2012]
[link]
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This is the finest idea I have read here this week. A
toasty-warm bun for you. |
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They did consider things along these lines in the 60s. I believe there were even prototypes built of nuclear-powered washing machines, amongst other kitchen units. |
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Unfortunately though, Aga ownership seems to go hand in hand with an irrational fear of nuclear power. |
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Ah, but that's because there has always been a
disconnect between the warm glow of an Aga and
the fenced-off nuclear power stations. |
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I contend that, if a block of suitable nuclear waste
were wrapped lovingly in cast iron and presented
to the knitwear-wearing knitwear wearers of
Agaland as an always-toasty-warm brick of toasty
goodness, it would soon be accepted. |
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"Look, mummy, that orphaned lamb has survived
_and_ it's growing extra gills!" |
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Plus it could have an "irradiate" setting for food preservation. [+] |
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//Plus it could have an "irradiate" setting for food
preservation.// |
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No. It wouldn't NOT have a setting for irradiating
food. |
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//I contend that, if a block of suitable nuclear waste were wrapped lovingly in cast iron and presented to the knitwear-wearing knitwear wearers of Agaland as an always-toasty-warm brick of toasty goodness, it would soon be accepted.// |
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It's a nice idea, but I don't think it's true.
If you gave enough people *any relatively novel thing*, some of them will get sick for unrelated random reasons which they will then attribute to that thing. The resultant scare-stories lead to a long-term chilling effect on adoption.
Conversely, when people have been using something for long enough - however harmful it's known to be, it's very hard to persuade them that stopping it would be a good idea. |
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I never heard of an AGA oven before. |
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This post caused me to look it up. What a wonderful diversion! |
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The ovens seem insane to me, and I don't know why anyone would want one. |
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As usual, MaxBuch is on the right path but is on the wrong scale. The plan should not be to wrap nuclear waste in an Aga-shell but to legitimise the entire enterprise of generating electricity from nuclear fuel by designing retrofit Aga covers for nuclear power stations: you approach by land over grim windswept moorland watching a massive polished racing green and brass form gain definition and size, until you are at the chainlink fence, now fully agog the colossal Aga rising perfectly perpendicularly from the ground, towering comfortingly over fencing, carparks, portakabins, looking for all the world like a spaceship expertly and gently landed by semi-gentrified skypilots from Planet Homesandgardens. |
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I have a Thing about Agas, in that I hate them and I want them to die. |
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My mother has an aga, it was in the house when she moved in (possibly it has been there for at least 50 generations). She lives in a stone farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. The aga runs on coal, wood, food scraps, dog poo, body parts, whatever you stick into the furnace. It heats the entire big house on central heating and it provides the perfect oven for her non-stop baking of bread, cakes, pies, roast dinners, biscuits, shortbread, muffins, flans, tarts, pizzas, and then a brief break for lunch before starting again in the afternoon... |
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However anyone who doesn't bake all day and doesn't live in a big old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere deserves everything you can throw at them. |
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[calum], you might just have come up with the perfect design for the new Chernobyl sarcophagus. |
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I'm off to answer this question for myself, but the first
thing that came to mind when I read this was "what the
hell is an Aga?" It would be nice to have had that
explained in the post. |
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//"what the hell is an Aga?" It would be nice to have
had that explained in the post.// |
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I think it was assumed that they are WKTE. I certainly
would have. |
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never heard of them; fortunately context was enough to establish the possibility of "stove" or "oven". |
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I'm told that this has been baked before. Probably at
control rod setting 3 for four years. [link] |
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