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Yes we clean lots of ARGA Cookers. We clean them until they Gleam! We use a very thorough organic process using a vegetable paste and lots of hard graft cleaning the 'tunnels' just inside the oven doors, the hinges, the enamel tops - sometimes they are very thick in grease- the hinges of the lids, the whole of the lids, the chrome lids and the underside shiny bits.Of course we clean the whole of the outside until it gleams!
On four oven ARGA cookers we clean the inside of ovens 3 and 4 which can be very strenuous work.
So if you have an ARGA cooker that needs cleaning then give us a call and we will be able to give that 'like new' appearance.
If you're thinking hmm what's an ARGA cooker well its an AGA cooker spelt the way a lot of people say it and seem to search for it!
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Today I've cleaned a BBQ for John Lewis in Swindon and then I went and cleaned an AGA cooker in Calne both of which are in Wiltshire.
The BBQ was something that John Lewis wanted cleaning so that they could re-sell it. It had been used by a customer but taken back to John Lewis. At the John Lewis Home store in the Outlet centre in Swindon they sell items that have been returned or have been damaged at reduced prices. The BBQ, a Weber Genesis, (although if you click on the last link it wasn't this actual model it was the cheaper black one see Black Weber Genesis) was covered in grease and looked unsightly. After a couple of hours cleaning though it was sparkling and shiny as new. Apparently these BBQs sell for £599 (or more) new so it was worth John Lewis getting it cleaned professionally by us.
The AGA cooker was a four oven one (one of the first deluxe 4 oven AGAs with a continuous towel rail at the front) and was the worst one I have ever seen, I don't think it had ever been cleaned. Ovens three and four were particulary dirty (we clean the insides of these on 4 oven AGA cookers) It took me three and half hours of hard graft to get it looking good. Phew one big AGA clean
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I cleaned an AGA cooker last week and it was really tough going as the top was very thick in grease.The house was empty as it had been just sold and the new owner of the house and AGA cooker wanted it 'bringing back to life'. It was really in a state and the grease on top had built up over the years and was like a hard solid mass. This sort of build up was caused by the old owner of the house using the AGA incorrectly i.e they were doing lots of frying on the top of the AGA and ignoring the 80 20 rule of the AGA where you do most of the cooking in the main oven.
Because of this it took me an additional 45 minutes to get it up to our AGA gleaming standard 'as new state'. It was a case of scraping off the grease with a blade and then finishing it off with a degreaser and polish. There was an area that was so burnt on I couldn't get it off. Ithink this was caused by a problem with the lid over the main plate; as it didn't fit properly there must have been a lot of heat escaping from the hot plate and this, over the years, helped literally burn the grease into the enamel.
Anyway the client was more than happy with the finished result as it went from thick greasy AGA cooker to bright, shiny and gleaming, like new AGA cooker. He was also getting the AGA cooker serviced by the AGA cooker servcing company Spillers of Chard who are the company we now recommend to everyone who asks us about AGA servicing as we know they will do a good job and can normally fit you in within a couple of weeks which isn't the case with small independent AGA engineers.
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Here are the best selling AGA cooker colours over the last year. For me Claret has to be the best colour and having cleaned one recently I really like Pistachio it just looks great - so I'm not sure why it bottom of the list. Wedgewood Blue looks great in photographs in magazines but in the showroom looks just too blue, too rich I suppose. I'm surprised that Dark Blue is so far down the list as most AGAs we clean seem to be Dark Blue or Cream. I also like Aubergine it just looks fabulous. For me Pillar Box Red is the worst colour of the lot and really doesn't go with anything as to me it's out of date non colour - though it did look good in a 70s style house I saw recently, I think in a magazine, as the rest of the kitchen co-ordinated with it, formica tops in red to match and black and white checkered floor. Pewter to me is very subtle and it's difficult to tell the colour of it if are close up to it (cleaning it). So my list of colours to really think about when looking to buy an AGA cooker would be Claret, Pistachio, and Aubergine. But also consider the classic style AGA in cream.
1 Pewter
2= Cream2= Black
4 Claret9 Wedgewood
10 Dark Blue
11 Millennium Special Edition
12 Jade
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