AGA DC5 User Guide

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Guide to AGA Cooking
As the AGA is heated dierently from an ordinary appliance, exact conversions are not possible. Look in the AGA book for a
similar recipe. Below is a quick guide to oven usage.
FOOD
OVEN TEMPERATURE
Roasting oven
HIGH
Grilling
• Top - grilling
• 2nd runner - scones, small pastries, grilling
• 3rd runner - bread rolls, Yorkshire pudding
• 4th runner - roasts, poultry
• Oven grid shelf on base of oven - bread loaves, pies, roast vegetables
• Floor grid on base of oven - quiches, pies
Scones
Pastries
Bread
Yorkshire puddings
Roasts
Shallow frying
Roasting/Simmering/Baking oven
MODERATE
Cakes
Place grid shelf on oor of Roasting Oven. Protect food with the cold plain shelf slid on
second or third runners. For cakes that require over 45 mins use the Cake Baker.
Alternatively with sh, cheesecake, start o in Roasting Oven, nish in Simmering Oven.
• Towards top - whisked sponges, some biscuits, small cakes
• Middle - fish, soufflés, shepherd and cottage pie, lasagne
• Oven grid shelf on base of oven
• Victoria sandwiches, shortbread, traybakes and cheesecake
Biscuits
Fish
Shepherds pie, Cottage pie
Lasagne
Soués
Shortbread
Simmering oven
LOW MODERATE
Casseroles
For casseroles, stock, milk puddings and similar dishes bring to heat elsewhere on the AGA
then transfer to the simmering oven (one exception is meringues). Rich fruit cakes can be
cooked here for a, long time on the oven grid shelf placed on the base of the oven.
Stock
Milk puddings
Meringues
Rich fruit cake

AGA DC5 Specifications

General

Brand	AGA
Model	DC5
Category	Ranges
Language	English