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The stove that never shuts up, because it never shuts off.
means A heavy cast-iron cooking range that stays permanently lit, radiating heat for cooking and warming the kitchen around the clock.
from Named from the Swedish acronym AGA (Aktiebolaget Gasaccumulator), the company whose engineer Gustaf Dalén — a Nobel Prize winner — invented the heat-retaining stove in the 1920s after losing his sight in an accident, designing it to need little daily fiddling precisely because he couldn't easily check on it himself.
- origin
- Swedish, invented by a blind physicist in 1922
- always on
- heats constantly, even in July, by design
- status symbol
- British kitchens worship it like a hearth god
- running cost
- burns fuel nonstop, bills included