This May AGA launched 'AGA iTotal Control' this is a new on-off AGA which you can control where ever you are using your mobile smartphone, PC, laptop, iPad or tablet. The technology allows you to sync your AGA using the touch of a button.
The new cooker has three ovens for roasting, baking and simmering (also hot plates which cannot be turned on by the app but can be turned off) all of which can be controlled remotely to ensure your meal is ready and waiting for your arrival home.
The technology also recognises that not everyone owns a smartphone or has access to internet via mobile phone so the cooker can also be controlled via text message using the following controls;
- Roasting oven on
- Baking oven on
- Simmering oven on
- All ovens on
- All zones off
Once the message has been received the AGA will reply saying, for example, 'Baking oven on activated'.
Incredible, no?
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| Screen grab from AGA website |
I must admit the idea of returning home on a wet and windy day in November to find my dinner cooked and ready to eat with the house smelling of warm toasty food is appealing but there is something about it which makes me feel a bit odd.
The technology is fantastic and having seen it in practice I can appreciate how forward thinking and fantastic it is but this was in an exhibit and not day to day life (and this is not a blog about technology). I worry it would leave me continually paranoid about leaving the oven on or forgetting to lock my phone and turning the roasting oven on in my handbag. Let alone what could happen after a few drinks (I find touch screen and alcohol never mix).
So as much as I would love an AGA (I dream of a Kirsty Alsopp kitchen but anyway...) and I love technology like this that makes me go "oooo" while touching the screen of my smart phone, however I would rather you left me turning the oven on when I get home. Even if it does mean I eat my dinner 40minutes later.....
Thanks much xoxo
NOTE - See the original AGA press release here.
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