On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 06:32:38 -0500, Micky
wrote:

On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 06:31:13 -0500, Micky
wrote:

On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 03:42:26 -0600, wrote:



my range pilot lights to eliminate that extra heat in the house and to
save gas. This is partly because I cook outdoors on my grill more than
indoors in hot weather. Pilot lights are really not needed on ranges.
Just keep a cig lighter next to the stove, and use that to ignite the
flame. But some people seem to want everything "instant on". To me,
stuff like that is insignificant. So it takes me an extra 5 seconds to
flick my bic... Who cares.

Our oven didnt' have a pilot, and that was lit with a match. Somehow
the flame was sucked off the match to the burner, and the match wasn't
burning anymore. Spooky.

Matches are a pain in the ass. And the cheap cardboard ones you often
get for free, are very poorly made these days. The old wooden ones are
better. But for th oven (and the burners), I use one of those "fireplace
lighters". Basically just a cig lighter with a long extension. That
prevents burned fingers.

I shut the pilot off entirely in my oven. I dont bake, so it's probably
been at least a year since I used the oven, and that was to dry out a
metal can full of nails I forgot to bring indoors before it rained.