How to light gas stove???
Dave
>
> I bought a cottage with a Vesta propane oven. Lighting the range was
> easy enough, but I haven't a clue how to light the oven.
> There is a bottom door that appears to be a broiler, with a perforated
> tube running through it. I presume that is the burner, but am reluctant
> to simply turn the gas on an lighting it.
> Any suggestions./
/
Sounds like the one I've used. I found it easiest to lift up the bottom
plate or whatever ya call it of the oven and light the pilot light that
way. (While possible, I don't like the contortion involved in lighting it
from the broiler.) IME the pilot is usually located in the back. YMMV
D
Wade Lippman
Bob Y.
Haven't used a gas oven since I was a kid. Back then there was a hole in the
front of the oven floor (about 1/2-inch dia.). The procedure then was to open
the oven door, hold a lit match over the hole, then turn on the gas. You might
check your oven for said hole.
d(:)
Bob Y.
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PENMART10
<tol...@frontiernet.net> writes:
>I bought a cottage with a Vesta propane oven. Lighting the range was
>easy enough, but I haven't a clue how to light the oven.
>There is a bottom door that appears to be a broiler, with a perforated
>tube running through it. I presume that is the burner, but am reluctant
>to simply turn the gas on an lighting it.
>Any suggestions.
Do the top burners ignite with a pilot light, if so, then there should be one
for the broiler/oven burner too. There should be a pilot light orifice near the
back of the broiler compartment, try lighting it, it should light providing
it's not turned of with the separate internal screw valve. People often close
this valve to save propane and/or for saftey reasons, especially if they don't
bother using the oven/broiler. You should be able to smell propane additive
when you first open the oven/broiler door, if it's on. If you can't locate the
pilot light orifice, then light the broiler/oven burner with a match - with the
broiler, and oven doors both OPENED light the match, then with the doors still
OPENED, turn on the gas and immediately ignite the burner with your already lit
match. Lighting the burner should automatically ignite the pilot light, which
in turn should remain lit when you turn the burner off, providing it's not
turned off with that separate valve. If not, call the propane people -- better
yet, call them first. I'm sure they will send a service person to check out
your parts.
Sheldon
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steve knight
wrote:
>I bought a cottage with a Vesta propane oven. Lighting the range was
>easy enough, but I haven't a clue how to light the oven.
>There is a bottom door that appears to be a broiler, with a perforated
>tube running through it. I presume that is the burner, but am reluctant
>to simply turn the gas on an lighting it.
>Any suggestions.
turn it on. throw match and run. (G)
"Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese"
Art Simon
Wade Lippman wrote:
> I bought a cottage with a Vesta propane oven. Lighting the range was
> easy enough, but I haven't a clue how to light the oven.
> There is a bottom door that appears to be a broiler, with a perforated
> tube running through it. I presume that is the burner, but am reluctant
> to simply turn the gas on an lighting it.
> Any suggestions.
No, this is *not* a suggestion. My wife had an Aunt who had a
problem like this with a new gas stove. She solved it by turning
on the gas, waiting a minute or so, then opening the oven and
throwing in a lighted match. BOOM! The oven was lighted!
DO NOT DO THIS!
This is not what I would suggest to any right thinking person
who is not suicidal.... <g>
Art
TJ
> No, this is *not* a suggestion. My wife had an Aunt who had a
> problem like this with a new gas stove. She solved it by turning
> on the gas, waiting a minute or so, then opening the oven and
> throwing in a lighted match. BOOM! The oven was lighted!
>
> DO NOT DO THIS!
>
A good reason not to do this is that the resulting POOOOM! blows out the
flame as well.
tj
who has done this
LKS
Ya, that's the karmically unfair part, isn't it?
Laura, who has also done this...
Patrick Hailey
PENMART10 <penm...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>Do the top burners ignite with a pilot light, if so, then there should be one
>for the broiler/oven burner too. There should be a pilot light orifice near the
This is 100% correct, except when it's 100% wrong.
My mother still has an old gas stove that has a pilot light for the cooktop
but requires you to light the oven/broiler with a match via a hole in the
oven floor, as described by another poster.
Sheldon's notion that the oven/broiler *should* have a pilot light if the
burners do doesn't enter in to it. If the oven doesn't have a pilot light,
what Sheldon thinks won't change anything.
Thanks awfully,
Patrick
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PENMART10
writes:
>Sheldon's notion that the oven/broiler *should* have a pilot light if the
>burners do doesn't enter in to it. If the oven doesn't have a pilot light,
>what Sheldon thinks won't change anything.
>
> Thanks awfully,
> Patrick
Sniff sniff.... eauwwwww.... gas! Hey, didn't ya mamma learn you any manners?
Patrick, you stink!