Our Oil Aga Cookers

TRADITIONAL COOKING. AMBIENT WARMTH. ALWAYS ON.

Oil Aga Cookers are popular throughout Scotland, especially in those more rural areas. Designed to be always on and up to temperature, it gives you the traditional aga cooker experience and welcoming warmth into the room.

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Why Choose a Oil Aga Cooker?

A traditional aga cooker, with the legendary cooking experience.

The main reasons our clients choose an oil aga cooker, is rural living. We often install these models in remote locations that benefit from having an Aga Cooker for cooking, drying, boiling kettles or heating the hot water - but doesn't totally rely on electricity to function. These models make power outages much easier to bare! Although not recommended - they can be fitted with an internal boiler, to supply your domestic hot water.


Some Benefits of Our Refurbished Oil Aga Cookers include:


  • Newly enamelled front and doors in one of our many colours.
  • Traditional radiant heat cooking aga cookers are known for.
  • New door and lid liners with upgraded state-of-the-art insulation.
  • Original British cast iron - designed to last.
  • Originally made of up to 70% recycled cast iron parts.
  • Newly enamelled black top plate.
  • Lots of ambient heat into the room.
  • Always on and ready to cook.
  • New chrome lids and fixings.
  • Our own parts and labour warranty.
  • Our own, unique 'pre-install' and 'get started' documentation.


All of our Reconditioned Aga Cookers are restored by hand, using techniques passed down generations in our family.


Oil Aga Cookers - Models Available

Each aga cooker is different and temperatures will fluctuate but you can use the below approximations as a guide. Remember, with traditional aga cookers, the oven temperature will drop if you use the hotplates at the same time. Our controllable models won't have this problem.



  • LH Hotplate: approx 315c
  • RH Hotplate: approx 200c


  • Top RH Oven: 220c to 240c
  • Bottom RH Oven: 120c to 140c


  • LH Hotplate: Approx 315c
  • RH Hotplate: Approx 200c


  • Top RH Oven: 220c to 240c
  • Bottom RH Oven: 170c to 190c


  • Top LH Oven: 120c to 140c
  • Bottom LH Oven: 60c to 70c
  • Warming Plate: Approx 60c

Oil Aga Cookers - Dimensions

Our Refurbished Aga Cookers all have the same dimensions, listed below.


Pre-Installation Requirements: No utilities should be located behind the Aga Cooker. Some minimum clearance gaps are required for airflow and maintenance - 10mm gap behind and 3mm each side. FireBoard behind the cooker is less of an issue due to increased insulation and decreased surface temperature, but it is still recommended. The cooker should sit on a non-combustible surface, for a thickness of at least 12mm.


This is a summary. Our unique, full pre-installation guides will be provided.

2 and 3 Oven Oil Aga Cookers


Width: 987mm (plus 3 to 5mm gap each side)

Depth: 679mm (plus 10mm gap behind)

Height: 851mm (plus your chosen plinth height)


Traditional models have the minimum depth 670mm.


Total height for lid clearance: 1330mm (plus any plinth height).


The doors need a minimum clearance of 116mm but we recommend 150mm.


4 Oven Oil Aga Cookers


Width: 1487mm (plus 3 to 5mm gap each side)

Depth: 679mm (plus 10mm gap behind)

Height: 851mm (plus your chosen plinth height)


Traditional models have the minimum depth 670mm.


Total height for lid clearance: 1330mm (plus any plinth height).


The doors need a minimum clearance of 116mm but we recommend 150mm.


Our plinths are made from steel. They are black in colour and available in 50-80mm high, but 60mm is the norm.

Oil Aga Cookers - Pros and Cons

To help you decide on your Aga Range Cooker fuel type, we've listed some advantages and disadvantages to our Oil Aga Cookers.

Advantages of Oil Aga Cookers:


  • Traditional Aga Range cooking style.
  • Always on and ready to use.
  • Thermostatically controlled, with automatic heat recovery provided as standard.
  • Lots of ambient warmth into the room.
  • Not completely reliant on electricity to function.
  • Has the ability to heat your domestic hot water.
  • Can utilise an existing oil supply from a tank.
  • Cooking smells are extracted through the flue.

Disadvantages of Oil Aga Cookers:


  • Reliant on Fossil Fuels.
  • Cooking big meals in the ovens will reduce hotplate heat.
  • Non-Controllable. All on or all off.
  • Ambient Heat may be unbearable in hotter months.
  • Long heat-up times (around 7 hours from cold).
  • Fuel line setup costs.
  • Flue requirements can be extensive and costly.
  • Servicing is mandatory (An engineer visit 6 months).
  • Oil combustion smells are possible.
  • Running costs are reliant on constantly fluctuating oil prices.

Oil Aga Cooker Flue Requirements

Our Oil Models can be installed with an existing chimney, or a twin-walled flue system.


Full flue specifications, diagrams etc are included inside our pre-install documentation.

Conventional Chimney Flue.


If you have an existing chimney or fireplace where the Aga cooker is situated, you can line the chimney to use your oil aga cooker. This can connect to the back of the aga cooker flue, so no flue pipe is visible inside the room, or you can choose a 'top flue', where a black enamel flue pipe exits the top of the cooker then connects onto the flue system further up, into the wall.

Twin Walled System.


You can also choose a twin-walled system if there is no existing chimney. The twin-walled system is basically a fabricated metal flue, strapped to the outside of the exterior wall, stretching to 600mm clearance of the main house ridge and any other obstructions.

Oil flue pipes must be at least 5m in length. This minimum requirement might be longer if you have bends in the flue system. The total flue height must clear the house ridge and any obstructions by 600mm. All bends should be kept to a 45 degree maximum.

Oil Aga Cookers - Running Costs

As always, running costs will depend on usage, food cooked, and your fuel supplier prices.


Since fuel costs can spike and dip, we've given approximations in kWh and Litres.



OIL RUNNING COSTS (p/w)


2 Ovens: 40 Litres

3 Ovens: not available in oil

4 Ovens: approx 51 Litres


You'll also have servicing costs to account for. Oil Aga Cookers need a minimum of one service every 6 months.

Why Choose Saltire Cookers for your Oil Aga Cooker?

We are Experienced

Our family have over 40 years of combined history working with Aga Cookers.

Unbiased Advice


We offer a range of systems and fuel types, so you can trust us to be impartial.

Our Warranty


Every cooker we refurbish is covered by our Parts and Labour warranty, for peace of mind.

A Proper Family Business

We're a team of 5 and we are all related! We are purely owned and operated by our family of engineers.

How Much Do Oil Aga Cookers Cost?

Our cookers have all been refurbished using our high standard process.


We offer FREE delivery to mainland UK.

Installation is postcode dependent.


When you contact our office, we will prepare a full quote for you, with our payment options included.


Your Parts and Labour Warranty is included as standard.

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