Aga, Project Pressure Jet.

Anyone who owns or cooks on an Aga knows what a brilliant piece of kit the Aga is. They will appreciate how easy it is to cook on and will enjoy the way their food tastes and the way their kitchen looks.

But lets face it, they can use alot of oil!

If you go away for the weekend, the best you can do to preserve fuel is to turn it down to a low setting and accept that when you return your Aga won't be ready for use. If you love the Sunday roast it produces, you'll have a hot kitchen all summer for possibly one meal, or you'll have to switch it off and go without. If you use it all year round, two services are the order of the day.

My Aga can be turned off overnight, programmed to come on when I need it, only needs servicing once a year even if I leave it on 24/7, and retains all the original cooking ability of its vapourising counterpart. It'll burn traditional 28 sec. kerosene, Red Diesel (35 sec. Gas Oil), Diesel ( should you be particularly rich!) Mazoot (32 sec. French oil, for those En France) or Bio Diesel for the future ( I'm still searching out details of the particular Bio Diesel at the moment and will post details when I have them.)

Yes, but it has some downsides. Noise is the obvious one. A vaporisor is quiet with just a light ticking noise. The pressure jet can be drowned out by a dishwasher or washing machine running, and is certainly no noisier than a domestic boiler with a pressure jet running. When its getting up to heat, the burner burns 3 minutes on and 3 minutes off, when temperature is reached, you have total silence for and hour or so until the burner starts to supply more heat, for say 20 mins, this obviously depends on whether it is being used for cooking or not.