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 For over 70 years, the Aga has transformed kitchens using the time-honoured principle of heat storage, and has earned a well-deserved reputation for cooking excellence. The Aga is still a favourite in kitchens everywhere. These special cookers are not mass-produced and are still cast in the same foundry and made using the same manufacturing procedures as 70 years ago.
Originally manufactured in Sweden, the Aga is now made in England at the historic Coalbrookdale foundry in Telford, Shropshire, which has been in operation since 1709. The fundamental design of the Aga has not changed in the last 70 years, and even in a high-tech age it is popular around the world. It is exported to various countries including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the USA and most of Europe and Scandinavia. An Aga transforms a kitchen into a welcoming place. It is widely recognised as a design classic and will remain a firm favourite in years to come.
.jpg) Dr. Gustaf Dalen – Inventor of the Aga Cooker
With over one hundred patents to his name including the Aga cooker, Gustaf Dalen is recognised as one of Sweden’s greatest scientists and inventors. He was responsible for developing the Aga company in Sweden into an international group of companies with a huge range of products. It is now one of the world’s leading gas companies.
Dalen was born on November 30, 1869 in Stenstorp, Sweden and he is remembered for his work on the warning lights on lighthouses and buoys that have saved thousands of lives. He succeeded in revolutionising lighthouse technology, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1912.
In the same year Dalen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was seriously injured in an experiment involving acetylene cylinders. Although he survived, he was blinded, but still remained Managing Director of the Aga gas company and participated actively in technical inventions.
.jpg) However, the quarry incident that was responsible for blinding Dalen in 1912 was indirectly responsible for one of his best-known inventions – the Aga cooker. It was only while he was convalescing at home that Dalen realised the difficulties his wife had using her traditional cooker. Food needed constant attention, the cooker devoured fuel and the whole appliance was badly designed. It was logical to Dalen that he should apply his scientific knowledge to the design of a new cooker. The Aga cooker was a product Dalen cared about because he felt it was an invention for ordinary people. It was a long-term project that he worked on in his spare time, and was finally launched in 1929 to immediate popularity.
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