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<div><b>From: </b>Nikhil Desai</div>
<div><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, April 19, 2017 23:09</div>
<div><b>To: </b>neiltm@uwclub.net</div>
<div><b>Reply To: </b>Discussion of biomass cooking stoves</div>
<div><b>Cc: </b>Discussion of biomass cooking stoves</div>
<div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Stoves] News: Pico-hydro for electric cooking (Financial Times)</div>
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I know a 82-year old of Irish extraction (born in Myanmar, grew up in US and N. Ireland). She told me about her Aga stove.
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"When we moved to N. Ireland from NYC in 1946, there were homes without stoves; just pots over open coal or coke or anthracite-heated fireplaces... I guess a lot of homes in Ireland didn't have electricity. I remember we stayed in a lovely spot with paraffin
lighting and stove heating/cooking. Our grandparents had an Aga stove - very practically designed to heat the room, heat the stove and heat the water... sometimes the stove didn't heat well, so to make custard would take an hour... but somehow, the home baked
bread - soda bread was always delicious.
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Memories... I do remember at times being frustrated when trying to get a gas stove to ignite - with matches.. but otherwise, my mind wasn't on cooking - although I cooked quite a bit in N. Ireland..."<br>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif">Nikhil Desai</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:54 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neiltm@uwclub.net" target="_blank">neiltm@uwclub.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span class="">On 18 Apr 2017 at 13:38, Nikhil Desai wrote:<br>
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> People of a certain age, or from Britain, may remember the Aga. The<br>
> name is an abbreviation of the company name, Aktiebolaget Gas<br>
> Accumulator.<br>
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</span>My childhood home was heated from 1957 to some time in the 80s by a<br>
number 3 gas coke AGA boiler (not range cooker), fuelled twice a day,<br>
heating water and radiators via thermosyphon through something like 2<br>
inch diameter pipes. The water jacket cylindrically surrounded the coke<br>
much like a large kelly kettle. It was so well insulated that my father<br>
found it didn't heat the small room it was located in sufficiently well,<br>
so he bolted a copper sheet as a radiator onto the outlet pipe. When<br>
North sea gas replaced coal gas, the coke ceased to be available and<br>
various smokeless fuels were tried, none with the success of what it was<br>
designed for, and on one occasion gas igniting at the top as my father<br>
was refuelling it took his eyelashes and eyebrows off! They replaced it<br>
with a conventional mains natural gas boiler.<br>
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Neil Taylor (of a certain age and from England)<br>
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