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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
The best baked potatoes are those cooked in a cast iron coal fired kitchen range which was also used to heat the kitchen, cook food, and boil water for baths and washing clothes.. You could put some spuds in the oven and leave them as long as you wanted. It cost nothing because the range was kept burning every day, all day during the winter.
I was brought up in such a house and they were still common in the 1950s.
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As a child in England we had a Rayburn, similar to an Aga, in the kitchen. It had multiple fixed temperature ovens, hot plates on top and a water tank that supplied the heat to half the radiators in the house. There was a separate gas fueled water heater for the rest of the radiators.
Coal was delivered on a regular basis to a coal hut by the side of the house.
I believe my sister in England still has an Aga in her house.
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