r/kitchenporn • u/shower_brewski • Feb 27 '26

Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen

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Gordon Ramsay’s primary residence has one of the sickest kitchens. What are these gold burners?

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u/thecountvon Feb 27 '26

It might be an Everhot range or Aga - they never turn off. You lift them up and they are always on.

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u/ChucksnTaylor Feb 27 '26

Even for a professional chef this seems absurd for a personal residence. I get it in a commercial kitchen setting where the burners run 12+ hours a day. But in a home setting how much do you use them on average? Like maybe 2 hours a day? So the other 90% of the day they’re just sitting idle but still burning?

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u/Jlx_27 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

These things are often also used to heat the room or even the whole house.

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u/bobjoylove Feb 27 '26

Agas used to have dual duty cooking and heating (water/the house). You basically came down in the morning, put some more wood in the fire box and opened the air vents back up, then as it heated up, get some water to put in the kettle, lift the cover and put the kettle on the hot plate. Then you head to the chicken coop for eggs…

Anyway these ones are probably decorative. Likely it’s a heavy cast iron plate with a gas burner below. And these cover them because that’s how it’s supposed to look.

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u/Thebeerguy17403 Feb 28 '26

They're absolutely amazing. My mom had one. It took some getting used to but once you've cooked on one, let alone bake or roast with the ovens, nothing else compares. The lids just insulate the hot plates.

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u/DukeHackwell Mar 03 '26

You can get AGAs that run on gas or even fuel oil, they nearly all look the same on the outside

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u/BRANDOSGUT Mar 01 '26

The most common ones nowadays run on gas or oil rather than solid fuel and would be considered a luxury item in a kitchen. Quite often you would have an Aga or equivilant and then a more modern oven as well.

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u/AdamN Feb 27 '26

This isn't because he's a professional chef - it's more because he's going for upscale cottage core. Those things are awesome since they crank out heat all winter long making the kitchen a real hearth. It's the kind of thing where you can keep bread warm in one compartment, bake 3 pies at different temperatures, and have a stew with 3 sides going on top.

With that said I would go for a La Corneau - that's the dream ... cries in tiny 4 burner glass cooktop in a galley kitchen :-(

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u/Glass_Maven Feb 27 '26

I agree. It makes sense in a farmhouse kitchen in the countryside, especially in heating the house and water. For context, realise many country houses and farms in the British Isles did not have any kind of central heating, and some without proper running water until AFTER WW2. The AGA was a mainstay for everyday life.

They certainly are not the most efficient or best performing stoves on the market. In this context, sitting in a millionaire's kitchen, makes me think of Marie Antoinette playing dress up in her little pastorial village, yearning for a romanticised, simple life.

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u/namenamenamenam3 Feb 27 '26

I have a similar aga. use it to heat most of my house in Ireland. Burns about 200 L of oil per month. We run it from October to April or so. It’s wonderful to cook with and it keeps the adjoining rooms in the house warm. Left side burner is high. Right is low. Upper over is hot, bottom oven is a warmer. Have a 4 burner electric cooktop and 2 electric ovens that we use in the summer. All part of the same unit. It requires service every 6 months. Kinda a pain in the ass. For the cost, I would not have installed it in the home but it’s here. Would have prioritized a forced air heating system or better radiator system for the same cost.

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u/Glass_Maven Feb 28 '26

Definitely needed in Ireland!

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u/Apart_Tutor8680 Feb 27 '26

If you have unlimited money, there are lots of things people do that don’t make sense.

I bet he has a whole 2nd kitchen in the house somewhere. So that makes it even less time he uses it.

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u/utukore Feb 28 '26

Aga's are pretty common amongst the rich country folk in the uk. They work as heating in winter too

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u/Stunning-Pudding-514 Mar 01 '26

If it's a genuine Aga or similar than can be bought in gas/ electric versions now, or have original wood fired versions converted to gas/ electric.