RobertM wrote:
Bill Kearney wrote:

If it doesn't require electricity either there is a pilot or you have
to light it with a match. The pilot costs a little something to run
24/7 but in the end the system is much cheaper than an electric stove.
I prefer a standing pilot to a match lit unit as matches are messy,
smelly, and aren't always around.


Matches? Just use a barbeque wand lighter. It's just the snap of static
spark that's needed. No pilot or matches needed. $2 from a local linens
and things (for the one that has barely any butane in it anyway)

What brand of range do you have? What is approximate price? The only
one I've found is at Lowe's. The top burners will work without power but
not the oven. I googled and found one, but it was almost $700.

I bought a top line Magic Chef in 1992 for $850 and have been cursing it
ever since. Plastic parts gather grease and are hard to clean, there
are many inside corners that are also hard to clean, the sealed burners
are hard to clean and the burners seem to require poking the holes with
a paper clip at least once a month, on rare occasions it will display an
FF04 code and require unplugging overnight to clear it but nobody at
Magic Chef can tell me what that means, the broiler hangs down from the
top of the over and steals a lot of space, and on....