AGA and La Cornue recall thousands of luxury ranges over gas leak risk

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada have jointly announced the recall of nearly 4,300 high-end dual-fuel ranges sold under the AGA and La Cornue brands, warning that a missing component in the gas manifold can allow gas to leak once the appliances are connected, creating a risk of fire or explosion.

The recall notice published by the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday covers six range models built between March 19, 2025, and July 24, 2026, and sold through authorized appliance dealers nationwide for between $6,000 and $20,000. The agency said the ranges may be missing a protective cap on a gas test port used during installation. If the cap is absent once the range is hooked up to a home's gas line, gas can seep out through the open port.

The numbers

Regulators put the affected population at 3,992 units in the United States and a further 261 in Canada, under a parallel notice issued by Health Canada, bringing the combined total to roughly 4,250 ranges across both countries. The recall spans four AGA models — the 36-inch and 48-inch Elise (AEL361DF, AEL481DF) and Mercury (AMC36DF, AMC48DF) series — along with two La Cornue CornuFé models, the 36-inch CornuFé 90 (LAC9) and the 43-inch CornuFé 110 (LAC1). Both regulators said that, as of the recall date, no incidents, injuries or property damage had been reported in either country.

The absence of reported harm is notable given how the hazard would present itself: a slow gas leak inside a kitchen, rather than a sudden mechanical failure, that could go unnoticed until it reaches a source of ignition. The Consumer Product Safety Commission classified the risk as one of fire or explosion severe enough to warrant an immediate order to consumers to shut off the gas supply to their ranges rather than wait for an inspection.

How the ranges ended up on the market

AGA and La Cornue are among the oldest names in high-end kitchen equipment. AGA's cast-iron cookers date to a 1920s Swedish design, while La Cornue has built ranges in France since 1908; both brands were folded decades later into AGA Rangemaster, a British manufacturing group that eventually became part of the American appliance conglomerate Middleby. The Elise and Mercury lines at issue are more recent additions, contemporary dual-fuel ranges — gas burners paired with an electric oven — aimed at the same luxury renovation market as brands like Wolf and Viking. Both AGA and La Cornue now direct recalled-range owners to a serial-number lookup hosted at compositionbrands.com, reflecting a corporate reshuffling earlier this year that moved the two heritage brands, along with Viking and several others, out from under Middleby and into a newly formed residential-kitchen holding company.

The test-port cap is not a part that homeowners would ever see or use in normal operation; it caps off a fitting that technicians use to check gas pressure during installation, then is meant to be sealed shut before the range is ever connected to a live supply line. Its omission points to a manufacturing or assembly lapse rather than a design flaw in the range itself, according to the description both companies have given consumers. The affected units were built over a roughly 16-month production window before the gap was identified and the companies notified regulators, a lag that is not unusual for defects that surface only during installation rather than in factory testing or ordinary use.

Who is affected, and what the companies are saying

Because these are premium appliances typically specified by designers and installed by licensed contractors during kitchen renovations rather than picked off a big-box shelf, the recall reaches a narrower and more identifiable set of owners than a mass-market product recall would. Both AGA and La Cornue have set up dedicated recall pages where owners can enter a range's serial number, found on a rating plate under the storage drawer, to check whether their unit is included, and both point owners to the same centralized lookup tool run by their parent company.

On its recall page, AGA said the company has received no reports of leaks tied to the missing part. La Cornue struck a similar note but added a broader commitment to owners on its own notice.

"The safety of our customers, the quality of our products, and the trust you place in La Cornue remain at the center of every decision we make," the company said on its official recall page for CornuFé owners.

Canadian broadcaster CP24 reported on the recall the same day it was announced, noting that the two brands' relatively small footprint in the Canadian market — a few hundred units sold — reflects their positioning as niche, high-end imports rather than volume appliances.

What owners should do next

Both regulators and the manufacturers are telling owners of the affected ranges to take the same immediate step: shut off the gas supply valve to the range before doing anything else. Electric oven sections on the dual-fuel units are unaffected by the gas-line issue and can continue to be used safely, but the gas cooktop burners should not be operated until the range has been checked.

Consumers can determine whether their range is included in the recall by:

• Locating the model and serial number on the rating plate, mounted on the bottom panel beneath the storage drawer
• Checking that number against the recall lookup tool at either manufacturer's recall page
• Calling the shared toll-free recall line, 888-257-7912, staffed from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern time on weekdays

Owners confirmed to have an affected unit are being offered a free in-home inspection and repair by an authorized technician, a process both companies say takes about an hour. There is no cost to consumers for the inspection, part replacement or any necessary repair. Given the ranges' price point and the fact that many were installed as part of larger kitchen renovations, the practical burden of the recall falls less on replacing the appliance than on scheduling a service visit and, in the meantime, cooking without a stovetop.

Neither the Consumer Product Safety Commission nor Health Canada has indicated a timeline for closing out the recall, and both said they would update their notices if new incidents are reported. For now, the absence of any documented gas leak, fire or injury in either country suggests the companies caught the defect before it caused harm — though regulators' insistence that owners cut off gas service immediately, rather than simply schedule a routine check, underscores how seriously they are treating even an unrealized risk in a home kitchen appliance that operates, by design, next to an open flame.