Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris, I had no wish to offend you. AGAs and stoves like them have their place and use, as you perfectly describe. In the United States, at least, they're marketed as super-upscale kitchen jewelry, available in a range of "designer" colors. I can't imagine that many Americans fire them with coal nor use them to heat their suburban mansions. But it does not take an AGA to slow cook a soup. Your place sounds wonderful. I'd love to see it. Chandos - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Christer Almqvist Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 4:36 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] It's all pots and pans now... Chandos, I have a coal fired AGA. In the summer a few years ago my wife put a few things in storage in the AGA oven. On a cold day I started the AGA and we had a lot of melted plastic storage containers a few hours later. Sometimes we have no electricity here, usually in the winter. Then coal fired AGA is hard to beat. (Oil fired central heatings do not work without electricity, and we have no natural gas here) A slow-cooked, like half a day, soup from the AGA is out of this world. Posession does not count, not at all. Usage does. I have no unused Leicas. I store my two in-use Leicas in tea cosies that I put in my rucksack. Chris > >I imagine that folk who buy AGAs also store their unused Leicas in a >safe deposit box. It's the 'possession' of the thing that counts. > >C > > > >Chandos Michael Brown >History and American Studies >College of William and Mary >www.wm.edu/cas/asp/faculty/brown > - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer please look at my NEW b+w pictures at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/dozen/ old pictures still at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html