On 12 May, 13:27, Tim Streater wrote:
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*Gordon Henderson wrote:

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polygonum wrote:
And who remembers the gas lighter that was a thin, flexible pipe and a
triggered thing at the end (halfway between a fag lighter and a blowtorch!)?

Yes! Our cooker had a central pilot light that did the 4 burners,
but for the grill or oven we needed to use the little lighter thing -
light it off the pilot then use it to light to grill or oven.

I used to try to get it to fill a baloon, but mains gas pressure is way
to low for that... Probably just as well!

Gas cooker I had installed in the US in 1984 had spark ignition.

So about 10years later than Mum's new Cannon in the 70s, which had
spark iginition, a (mechanical) clock that would turn the oven on and
a rotisserie attachment for the grill. I always thought the merkins
were a bit behind when it cam to cooking.

MBQ