The Rayburn XT is an ultra-modern, stylish, functional cooker and a gorgeous addition to any kitchen.

It has contemporary, sleek lines and beautiful styling. Its heavy chrome door handles and seductively curved towel rail make it set to lead the way in 21st-century range cooking.

Cast iron range cookers go from strength to strength, with more being sold each year and many of today’s cooks want a statement-making, state-of-the-art cooker that offers the peerless performance Rayburn is known for in a stunning, modern style.

But the XT’s not simply good looking. It also offers the brilliant cooking performance the company is known for. Rayburns use indirect heat technology, which is kind to food – rather than allowing food to dry out, it seals in the flavours and natural juices, creating healthier and better tasting dishes.

The Rayburn XT suits all cooking styles from the wildly adventurous to the oh-so tame. In fact, there isn’t a dish that the cooker doesn’t cope with perfectly.

Particularly innovative is the XT’s large hotplate, which – because of its curvacious lids – gives the cooker a fabulous and truly distinctive look. The hotplate’s expansive surface allows for slow simmering at one end and super-rapid boiling at the other.

The capacious main oven of the XT is blissfully simple to control and features heat zones that allow the user to cook at different temperatures simultaneously. This is also the oven used for grilling, which cleans itself and cooking smells are cleverly vented away.

The lower oven is smaller and operates at a reduced temperature, making it perfect for slow cooking, steaming and simmering.

And because the XT is vented into the power flue, the flavours from one dish won’t taint another. Amazingly, you can cook garlic-infused chicken in the same oven as a lemon tart and there’ll be no crossing of flavours.

Beautifully fluid – from its free-flowing hotplate lids to the retro-influenced thermodial and the majestic lines of its compelling profile – the XT makes a style statement which will prove hard to resist.

But the Rayburn XT offers so much more than simply scintillating good looks. Like every range cooker from the Aga stable, it performs with a competence befitting the world’s best-known cooker brand. And, as it has a powerflue, it can be placed almost anywhere in the kitchen. The Rayburn XT – a modern classic.