Health Canada Recalls 261 AGA and La Cornue Ranges; Owners Told to Shut Off Gas Immediately

Here is the part of this recall that changes what your week looks like. The instruction is to shut off the gas supply to the range and contact AGA Rangemaster Limited to coordinate a free inspection and subsequent repair. But the recall notice also states plainly that consumers can continue to use the electric oven sections of the range.

These are dual fuel appliances: a gas cooktop paired with electric ovens. Shutting off the gas takes the burners out of service and leaves the ovens working. That is an unusually forgiving remedy for a fire hazard, and it removes the most common reason people delay — the assumption that complying means losing the kitchen until a technician can be scheduled. You lose the cooktop. You keep the roasting, the baking and the holiday dinner.

The permission is specific, so read it narrowly. It authorizes the electric oven sections and nothing else. It is not permission to shut off gas at an individual burner, to keep cooking on the cooktop while you wait for an appointment, or to run the range on propane instead of natural gas because the recall "probably" applies to the other configuration. The recall covers both gas types.

The recall is a joint action, and the second regulator involved describes the same defect in considerably harder language. In its notice published the same day, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission states that ranges with a missing cap from the gas test port can cause a gas leak "posing a risk of serious injury or death from fire or explosion hazards." Health Canada's notice describes the same missing part as creating a fire hazard, and mentions neither explosion nor death.

Both agencies are describing one defect in one set of appliances. A Canadian owner reading only the Canadian notice receives the milder of the two characterizations, which is worth knowing when you are deciding whether "immediately" means today or means sometime this month.

The two notices also disagree on arithmetic. Health Canada reports 261 affected units sold in Canada and 3,992 in the United States. The American notice refers to 336 additional units sold in Canada. The Canadian figure of 261 is the one to work from — it comes from the Canadian regulator — but the gap is unresolved as of publication, and it is a reason not to treat any single unit count as the last word on how many of these ranges are out there.

As of August 14, 2026, the manufacturer had received no reports of incidents or injuries in either country. This is a defect caught before it hurt anyone. Acting now is what keeps that record intact.

Fuel-system defects account for a steady share of the recall ledger, including Generac portable generators recalled for a fuel leak fire hazard ahead of last spring's storm season.

There is a psychology to this recall that is worth naming, because it is the thing most likely to stop an affected owner from acting. These are expensive appliances. The American notice puts the sold-price band at $6,000 to $20,000, and at Canadian dealer list prices the recalled families run from roughly $10,939 for an AGA Elise 48-inch dual fuel range, as listed by the Canadian dealer Avenue Appliance, to $19,625 for a La Cornue CornuFé 110 at the same retailer.

At that price, the appliance feels like it belongs to a category above manufacturing defects. It arrived on a pallet with a service technician. Somebody assembled it in your kitchen. It is the object visitors comment on. None of that has any bearing on whether a cap was fitted to a manifold on a particular day in a particular factory, and a missing part is exactly the kind of defect that skips quality control precisely because it is small, invisible and inconsequential to whether the appliance works.

Price is not a safety rating. It buys materials, engineering and finish. It does not buy immunity from an assembly-line omission, and the recall makes no distinction between a $6,000 range and a $20,000 one.

Small recall cohorts are the ones most likely to go unnoticed, as with the uncertified smoke and carbon monoxide alarm sold to 665 Canadian homes before Health Canada caught it.

Premium appliances circulate. They get sold with houses, listed on marketplaces, moved to cottages, handed to adult children setting up a first kitchen, or absorbed into a renovation and passed along to whoever hauls the old one away. An unrepaired range carries its defect with it, and Canadian law addresses this directly.

Section 8 of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act provides that no person shall advertise or sell a consumer product that they know is the subject of a voluntary recall in Canada because the product is a danger to human health or safety. RA-82570 is a voluntary recall, which places these ranges squarely inside that provision. Health Canada's own recall notices go further in their phrasing, stating that recalled products cannot be redistributed, sold or even given away in Canada.

The practical reading is straightforward. If you own one of these ranges and it has not been inspected, it does not go on a marketplace listing, into an estate sale, or into a friend's kitchen — not until the repair is done. Booking the inspection is also what makes the appliance transferable again, which is a reason to act even if you have already decided to replace it.

Recalls do not always end with a manufacturer remedy, as owners learned when Health Canada advised disposal of an IQYEF triple-detector alarm after the seller refused to run a recall.

The remedy costs nothing and takes about an hour. AGA arranges for an authorized service provider to inspect the range and add a test port cap if one is missing; La Cornue's page describes the same visit and specifies that it includes leak verification. Someone aged 18 or over needs to be home for the appointment. You keep the range — this is a repair recall, not a refund-and-surrender.

To arrange it, call AGA Rangemaster toll-free at 1-888-257-7912, open 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday to Friday. One number covers both brands, so La Cornue owners do not need to look for a separate line. Have the model and serial number ready if you have them; if you do not, the agents can work through identification with you on the call.

Two hundred and sixty-one Canadian households own one of these ranges. Most of them do not know about this recall yet, and the small ones are the recalls that slip past everybody. If you recognize your range in the table above, the gas goes off tonight and the call goes in tomorrow morning.

Homeowner.ca tracks Health Canada's home and kitchen recalls as they publish, including the recent action on Cuisinart Propel+ gas grills after pizza-oven glass shattered.