Product Description

From 'the handholder to Aga owners everywhere' (Nigella Lawson) comes the problem-solving instruction book that no Aga owner should be without. Drawing on her experience of teaching Aga cookery classes, Amy Willcock shares the best trade secrets for getting the most out of your Aga. Amy Willcock's Aga Know-How is packed with advice and information on everything from how to keep the heat in, how to clean and service your oven, what kind of utensils to use and how to convert recipes, to the best ways to cook all your favourite foods. Featuring the tips and hints that only a pro knows, such as roasting coffee beans, making stock, melting chocolate and reheating convenience food as well as illustrations of where to cook your favourite dishes and information on stockists, cookware specialists and websites, this is the one-stop handbook for the new generation of Aga cooks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33403 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Review
'a nifty little gift...packed with hints and tips', The Bookseller .'an invaluable volume for Aga owners', Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday .'a pocket-sized paean to the joys of range cooking', Caroline Stacey, Independent

About the Author
Amy Willcock's contemporary and appealing recipes have brought Aga cooking into the 21st century to great acclaim. Amy is the bestselling author of Aga Cooking and the forthcoming Aga Baking, and she has recently launched a cookware range with Mermaid. She runs three highly successful hotels with her husband including The George on the Isle of Wight, which holds a Michelin star, where she holds Aga workshops and cookery courses.

Customer Reviews

Essential, accessible Aga handbook
We moved into a house with an Aga 18 months ago, and without this book I would have been clueless. Agas are wonderful beasts and, as the cliché goes, I now couldn't live without it. But that is entirely thanks to this book. It's small and to the point, but I have found that I have not needed to refer to the stacks of Mary Berry books that were given to me - this little number has enabled me to adapt all my old recipes to Aga cooking without having to learn Aga-specific ones. We successfully planned our enormous Christmas meal using this book and the turkey was cooked to perfection! It also tells you all the useful non-cooking things - like how to clean it, iron with it, etc, etc.

I would say this book is essential for those who've never owned an Aga before, and jolly useful for those who have.

Small and insubstantial
There is nothing in this little book that isn't in the book you will receive with your new Aga or in any other cookery book with Aga recipes. This just has fewer recipes. If you have access to the internet you'd be better off going on the Aga website for your tips.

Useful first aga book
Having moved to a house with an AGA, this was a resonably good book with useful information, and ok value for money.

If you are buying this don't bother with the little book of aga tips that is offered with it as a multibuy on amazon.