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Owner: Pippa Ellis
Model: Red 2-oven
Vintage: c1980s
Location: Warwickshire
Snapshot: Pippa’s family have always had an AGA. Arable farmers for generations, the family have never cooked any other way. Pippa’s farmhouse is an eclectic mix of designs, some parts of it having been added over the years. “It’s a beamed property and a mix of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian,” says Pippa. During the terrible Easter floods of 1998, the farmhouse was flooded so badly that the top oven of the AGA filled with water. “There was three feet of water downstairs,” Pippa recalls, “but the AGA man came and re-lit it and it was back to normal – it was the only thing that worked again after the floods!” Pippa has six dogs – labradors, terriers and a pug, who all crowd around the AGA for warmth. The AGA cooks everything, but Pippa’s favourite is traditional roast beef with all the trimmings or her speciality lemon drizzle cake.
Finest Hour: Surviving the flood and saving the pug. “Just before Christmas last year the pug fell in the pond – he was very weak, hardly moving, so I rubbed him dry in a towel and popped him in the bottom oven and he revived!”
Pippa Ellis