Meet our Demonstrators

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
8 years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
The simplicity and speed, you can cook food really fast or long and slow.

What's your best AGA tip?
You can make great sponge cakes if you warm your caster sugar on the top of the AGA or on the warming plate before whisking a sponge, and make sure your eggs are at room temperature too.

Comfort food on the AGA
I use lots of cream, lots of pastry and lots of Drambuie.

Day in the life of an AGA
I show people how to grill in the top of the roasting oven and fry on the floor of the roasting oven. Which means the food taste great and you don't need to scrub your splash back. The AGA is the original self-cleaning oven.

What's the best bit about your dems?
I understand that your life is hectic and show how to make some good, quick food for family mealtimes and no effort casseroles for a cold day.

For details of where James is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
15 years.

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
Excluding the obvious answer (good food) I love cooking on the AGA because it's always ready and there's no need to think about temperatures - also no need to clean the oven afterwards.

What's your best AGA tip?
The best tip that I give new AGA owners is to forget temperatures and think 'time' instead - how soon you want to eat dictates which oven is used. Anything in the roasting oven must be watched, while anything in the simmering oven will take twice as long as usual to cook but can remain there for much longer without spoiling.

What dems do you have coming up?
I will be doing a 'fish and veg' dem soon in Inverness to illustrate the AGA is not just for roasts and casseroles - this will include flavours from around the world.

The Christmas dems later in the year will show how to manage a traditional lunch with extras. And the most important tip is to start the turkey early and have it resting leaving the roasting oven free to cope with the roast potatoes and all the extras which need high temperatures

What's the best bit about your dems?
The best bit about the dems is audience participation - many hints and tips can be picked up even from quite new owners. Also the questions asked can be a real help to new and potential owners who may not be at the stage when they know which questions to ask.

For details of where Jean is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA demonstrator?
16 years.

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
Instant heat, a cosy kitchen, reliability, using the floor of the roasting oven for so much cooking. No smells and easy cleaning.

What's your best AGA tip?
Get to know your AGA as you would any other domestic appliance and then love your AGA. Go on an AGA cookery course or to a demonstration and learn to get the most from your AGA.

What dems do you have coming up?

Cook to Impress: Sit down with a piece of paper and plan ahead and keep it simple. Make the most of local, seasonal food.

Meat-free cooking: What a chance to become inventive with all the new seasonal fruit and vegetables.

Baking: This really is easy when you know how to use your AGA and how to use the cold shelf. Don't be tempted to bake bread too near the top of the roasting oven, bake near the bottom of the oven and allow it to cook through while it gets a crisp crust.

What's the best bit about your dems?
When a customer tells me I have inspired them to try a new food or have a go at cooking.

For details of where Louise is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA demonstrator?
25 years.

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
It's such a comfort knowing that the AGA is always ready to go. It's so reliable and always comes up with the goods.

What's your best AGA tip?
Enjoy and relax, the AGA is a friend. Once you discover the finer points it becomes such an easy mode of cooking.

What dems do you have coming up?

Something fishy: The AGA is a gentle method of cooking fish and there's no smell.

Day in the life: Do as much cooking as you can in the ovens.

What's the best bit about your dems?
I have lots of experience and confidence, I like to inject a little humour so people are happy and relaxed and can ask questions. I can also do demonstrations in French.

For details of where Sue is dmonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
14 years.

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
Just being able to sit back and relax. The AGA looks after the food for you and you're not clock watching - it's a relaxing way of cooking.

What's your best AGA tip?
Use the floor of the roasting oven for baking breads and pastries, the simmering plate for proving and then cook directly on the floor. The baking paddle is great - you can use it to remove pots from the back of the simmering oven or baking oven when you've filled it full.

What dems do you have coming up?

Tours of the med: Culinary tour of Europe from France to Africa, demonstrating various styles of cooking and how the AGA makes easy holiday memories.

Vegetarian: The AGA is ideal for cooking beans. It's perfect for long slow cooking.

What's the best bit about your dems?
It's a very relaxed atmosphere.

For details of where Sue is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
12 years.

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
The instant heat.

What's your best AGA tip?
Your AGA is your best friend, it will take care of your food in the simmering oven and allow you to relax and enjoy your dinner party guests.

What dems do you have coming up?

The Beginners Guide to your AGA: Make sure you bring your root veg to boil on the boiling plate, then drain off and simmer in the simmering oven - you get full flavours without loosing valuable nutrients.

The relish demonstration: When cooking a whole fish it can be placed on the grid shelf in the roasting oven, covered loosely with foil in a large roasting tin, and then let it cook for 20-25 minutes.

What's the best bit about your dems?
I cover the everyday needs of mothers in the kitchen with every day pressures - basic, stress-free cooking on the AGA.

For details of where Sue is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
13 years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
The reliability, the AGA's always up and running and makes the best roast potatoes in the world, plus the ovens cook meat and fish like no other cooker.

What's your best AGA tip?
Frying any food on the roasting oven floor in an AGA frying pan, no smells, no fuss and the hotplates are available to use for other things.

What dems do you have coming up?

Seafood:The best tip for cooking seasfood is to use the ovens as much as possible, seafood likes the AGA ovens.

The Beginners Guide to your AGA: The tip that comes from this particular dem is that you should do 80% or more of your AGA cooking in the ovens and 20% on top.

Easy Entertaining: This is a brilliant dem, because it allows attendees to have a hands-on experience of AGA cooking.

What's the best bit about your dems?
I am a born entertainer, and there is no better way to inform your audience than to make them laugh, feed them well, and show them how the AGA's so much better than cookers. I focus particularly on how clever the ovens are and how they should be used.

For details of where Mark is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
15 years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
The AGA's reliable ever-ready heat and it covers all facets of cooking required.

What's your best AGA tip?
Popping your clothes on the simmering plate lids allows you to give up ironing, as when you take them off they're crease-free.

What dems do you have coming up?

Day in the life of an AGA: This dem shows you all sorts of sneaky tips and shortcuts, including brilliant ways to cook eggs.

Healthy eating: The AGA is excellent for casseroling and quick cooking. It's also great for low-fat and high-fibre style of cooking.

What's the best thing about your dems?
I concentrate on the cooker, to ensure that people learn how to get the most from the AGA.

For details of where Maureen is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
7 years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
I like the readiness of it. I love the simmering oven for risotto, meringues and root vegetables and the floor of the roasting oven for crusty bread, tarts cooked with raw pastry and filling in one go, without baking blind and softening onions without making the kitchen smell.

What's your best AGA tip?
Quesadillas (tortilla wraps with cheese) toasted on the simmering plate, make a great quick snack, in less than 5 minutes.

What dems do you have coming up?

Pancake open days: Making pancakes is so much quicker on an AGA. You start one off in a pan on the boiling plate, then cook the second side directly on the simmering plate to finish it off. This gives them a great round shape and you can start the second one off as soon as you get the first onto the simmering plate, so it's a lot faster than normal.

Men only: Here a group of men learn how to cook a complete meal, using every part of the AGA, so they know how and where to cook each dish. In fact, it could be argued that it turns them into perfect husbands!

Fast and Fabulous Food for Busy Mums: This is a great demonstration as it shows how to get your children involved in the preparation of healthy food such as English Breakfast Frittata, Pumpkin and Rosemary Muffins and Tomato Tarte Tatin.

Desserts and Puddings: Puddings are one of my favourite things to cook and I love reviving some of our Great British puddings such as Steamed Marmalade Pudding with Cointreau Custard, Lemon Queen of Puddings, Hot Cross Bun Pudding and Apple Dappy.

The Great British AGA Baking Day: Baking is enjoying something of a revival and it's very rewarding going back to basics and showing how to bake a perfect loaf of bread, a beautiful batch of scones, a delicious fruit cake or that illusive for some, mile high Yorkshire pudding. It's dead easy on the AGA.

What's the best bit about your dems?
I hope customers pick up tips on easy AGA cooking, rather than having to spend a long time in the kitchen, I show them all the quick shortcuts. It's a great compliment when they tell me they cooked all the dishes I showed them and they turned out really well.

For details of where Diane is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
17 Years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
The ease and simplicity of it, it's much more forgiving than other cookers.

What's your best AGA tip?
It will do it if you let it, it can't if you don't. In fact there's nothing you can't cook on an AGA.

What dems do you have coming up?

Fish: The AGA is brilliant for fish it cooks quickly, there's no smell, no mess and even cheap fish can taste good.

Pastry: Even if the pastry is shop-bought, you get home made results

What's the best bit about your dems?
I've been doing AGA demonstrations for a long time, I keep it simple and don't over complicate it.

For details of where Marcia is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
5 Years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
The variety of cooking, the ready available heat, the brilliant AGA equipment, Bake-O-Glide, for example, has turned lots of people into great pastry cooks.

What's your best AGA tip?
Make roast potatoes, they taste so much better cooked in an AGA.

What dems do you have coming up?

The Beginners Guide to your AGA: I cover all aspects of AGA cooking, and concentrate on cooking all the food in the ovens.

Fish: Cooked in the oven, AGA fish is moist. There's no cooking smells and the AGA cooks really quickly.

What's the best bit about your dems?
I've been an AGA demonstrator for five years but have been cooking on an AGA for 45 years, so am very skilled. And, as a trained chef, I can safely say, the AGA is my favourite form of cooking, nothing compares to it. Most people go away from my demonstrations in no doubt what a magnificent cooker the AGA is.

For details of where Phyl is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
3 years, before that I was a home economics teacher for 25 years.

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
It's simple and easy, hassle-free, and is very forgiving.

What's your best AGA tip?
Cook in the oven and keep the lids down to conserve the energy. Read the AGA Cookery book, as you need to understand the '80/20' concept of AGA cooking, cook 80% in the oven and 20% on the top.

What dems do you have coming up?

The Beginners Guide to your AGA: This dem offers all the basic tips and explains the oven zones.

Breads and cakes: If you like baking you need to plan ahead to get the most out of your oven and use the different heat zones so as not to waste energy.

Vegetarian: My tip from this dem is to use seasonal food wherever you can, and use deli counter produce, such as sun blushed tomatoes and different oils, to season dishes.

What's the best bit about your dems?
I have a lot of experience, I teach the use of the AGA and cookery skills. I like to use local ingredients, and my dems are entertaining relaxing and fun. People keep coming back take on board new ideas as well as traditional cooking - I also cater to all tastes.

For details of where Margaret is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
5 years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
The cooker's reliability and the fact it is always ready for anything, it's staggeringly efficient, it's the most intelligent cooker.

What's your best AGA tip?
Find the heat and use it, so for example bring dishes up to heat on top of the AGA, then relocate to one of the ovens - it's far more economical and makes a huge difference and means you're getting the best out of your AGA.

What dems do you have coming up?

Romantic dinners for two: The best tip here is to start off with superb ingredients and a good recipe and you can't go wrong.

Easy entertaining: Here you learn how to use recipes you can prepare ahead, so there's no last minute panic.

Summer buffets: The AGA makes an excellent barbecue.

Winter hotpot: Think ahead, you don't want to hurry the food, by slow cooking and reheating you'll bring out the true flavours, take it slow and use tenderised meat.

What's the best bit about your dems?
I offer excellent, unusual recipes which taste delicious and aren't to complicated. I have a good sense of humour and make people laugh with stories about the farm and my sons, who, when they were young, thought simmering ovens were to keep bath towels warm in, as our bathrooms were so cold. I'd encourage anyone to come and enjoy a dem. I love to see people go away with more confidence and the desire to try out the recipes I have demonstrated.

For details of where Deborah is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
14 years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
There's no better cooker. An AGA is a cook's dream and the house wouldn't be the same without it.

What's your best AGA tip?
Cook as much as you can in the ovens, the simmering oven is a dream and makes cooking easy and relaxing.

What dems do you have coming up?

Winter warmers: Here I show how to make a wonderful hotpot and explain how it will look after itself in the simmering oven.

Easy entertaining: Prepare ahead and entertain at leisure.

What's the best bit about your dems?
They are informative and relaxing. I show how to get the best out of an AGA and make cooking enjoyable.

For details of where David is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
7 years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
Everything, I can't imagine living without my AGA, and I love sharing my techniques with everyone. In fact, I've just written a book called Relaxed AGA Cooking.

What's your best AGA tip?
They all cook the same whatever fuel, there are many myths around AGA cooking and I dispel them all.

What dems do you have coming up?

Romantic dinners for two: The steamed puddings I cook here are easy to fall in love with, everyone love the Pear and Ginger Pudding with Sticky Toffee Sauce.

Day in the life: This dem shows how you can do anything on an AGA, particularly stir-frying.

What's the best bit about your dems?
Because you don't know what you don't know.even if you've had your AGA for 20 years, there's still lots to learn. In fact, people learn something new at every one of my dems.

For details of where Sarah is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
8 years. I am also a Cordon Bleu qualified Home Economist and have been teaching cooking skills for over 30 years. I grew up with AGA cookers and have cooked on them all of my life.

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
It consistently produces superb results, from moist cakes to the crunchiest, crispest pork crackling.

What's your best AGA tip?
Use the ovens, rather than the top hotplates, as much as possible.

What dems do you have coming up?

The Beginners Guide to your AGA: I take you on a trip round the AGA, demonstrating what cooks where, why and how.

Dinner parties: The AGA is simply the best ally to have in the kitchen when entertaining.

Trip around the Med: I introduce people to an eclectic mix of flavours.

What's the best bit about your dems?
I think people pick-up on my real enthusiasm, passion and love for AGA cookers.

For details of where Katy is demonstrating click here

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
22 years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
The simplicity and reliability of it.

What's your best AGA tip?
Look after your AGA and it'll look after you. Keep it serviced.

What dems do you have coming up?

Valentines Day: Make sure you know the likes and dislikes of the person you're trying to impress, don't serve garlic, cook something special and make sure to cook something that's easy to put together.

What's the best bit about your dems?
They get lots of good food to try, and lots of help and advice.

For details of where Penny is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
15

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
Coming down in the morning to a toasty warm kitchen.
Making tea and toast in the time it takes to put the dog out the back door.
Always having ovens ready for baking at whatever temperature you choose.

What's your best AGA tip?
Use the simmering oven to dry porous pottery, kindling, breadcrumbs or to freshen up nuts or breakfast cereal.

Bake Kerr's Pink potatoes in the roasting oven for about 45 mins - this elevates baked potatoes to a new level.

Air laundry on the rail of the AGA, and you can press napkins, tea towels on the simmering plate lid.

Melt chocolate, warm baby food etc. in a pan at the back of the plates - it will never get too hot.

What dems do you have coming up?

Fabulous Fish 
The Beginners Guide to your AGA

What's the best bit about your dems?
They are informative, informal, great fun and you'll get try some delicious food too.

For details of where Lesley is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA demonstrator?
4 years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
I love its comforting warmth and the reassuring click of the oven doors every time I open and close them. Its instant readiness inspires me to cook; its constant reliability guarantees great results.

What's your best AGA tip?
Get to know and love your AGA - it has its own personality.

What dems do you have coming up?

The Beginners Guide to your AGA: This dem uses every aspect of the cooker and shows its amazing capacity, versatility and ease of use. There's absolutely nothing that can't be cooked on or in the AGA.

A Baking Day: Never be afraid to open the oven doors to check on cakes because of the heat retention in the cast-iron ovens means the cakes or bread won't sink. Pastry cooked on the floor of the roasting oven is a revelation, rendering baking blind a thing of the past.

Ladies Who Lunch: Let the AGA take the strain. Prepare and plan ahead. Dishes can be successfully cooked, re-heating or holding them in the simmering oven until required. The AGA gives confidence to a busy hostess.

What's the best aspect of your dems?
I really enjoy showing off the AGA. I'm so passionate about it as a lifestyle emblem that I relish the opportunity to enthuse and inspire others. The informality and friendliness of my demonstrations usually ensure a happy learning atmosphere, which allows the AGA performance to be first class. Everyone seems to appreciate the social time after the demonstration, too, eating, chatting and talking AGA talk.

For details of where Sheila is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
7 years

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
I love to cook on my AGA as it is so simple to use and ready  to use any time of the day or night!

What's your best AGA tip?
My best AGA tip is never cook anything without using the timer.

What's the best aspect about your dems?
The best bit about my demonstrations is when a customer says ' that was so easy to cook and tasted so good cooked on the AGA that I'm going to call into the shops on the way home and buy the ingredients to make that dish for supper!'.

For details of where Sue is demonstrating click here.

How long have you been an AGA Demonstrator?
4 years. In addition to demonstrating at AGA Shops across Scotland, I hold private demonstrations for individuals or small groups.

What do you love about cooking on an AGA?
The amazing capacity of the AGA ovens and being able to cook several different things in the same oven at the same time, such as fish and a tray bake, without any confusion of flavours between sweet and savoury dishes. I also love the fact that the cooking results are more consistent which makes you more intuitive and adventurous.

What's your best AGA tip?
Fried eggs done on a piece of Bake-o-Glide directly on the Simmering Plate - this never fails to impress! Lemon curd made in the jar in the Simmering Oven - hardly any washing up!

What Demonstrations do you have coming up?

Meat Masterclass: A range of top quality cuts of meat will be used to demonstrate a range of cooking techniques, such as braising, fast-roasting, frying, pan- roasting and stir-frying. All meat will be supplied by Donald Russell the Gourmet Online Butchers.

AGA Baking: From cakes to tray bakes, make sure you're well supplied with tea-time treats for friends and all the family.

Vegetarian Feast: A selection of meat-free dishes from everyday family meals to sophisticated dinner party recipes.

Healthy Eating: Simple, tasty and easy to prepare food for all the family, everyday of the week.

Christmas with a Difference: Tired of traditional turkey and trimmings? New recipe ideas and menus for a cracking unconventional Christmas!

What's the best bit about your dems?
For me, I really enjoy showing new owners how to get the most out of their AGAs. It always delights me that owners who've had their AGA for years tell me they've learnt something new at the demonstration. I also enjoy answering all the cooking questions that owners ask me. And then of course, there's the food!

For details of where Susan is demonstrating click here.