On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:00:23 GMT, CJT wrote:

ap wrote:
Hello,
We have had a whirlpool gas range with electronic ignition. The range
is about 7 years old and gives us trouble sparking the pilot light. It
takes
a while to light up and there is some gas smell.

We are fairly heavy users of the stove and home cook all meals.

We are considering purchasing a new range. A few questions:

Some stores carry the older pilot light models (w/o the electronic
ignition).
Are these models better in terms of lighting up immediately?

Which models/brands do you recommend and have worked well for you?

Also, with gas ranges, do you occasionally smell gas and does your
pilot light ever
go out?

thank you!

That sort of thing usually means the burners are dirty. A few minutes
with a wire brush should help.

My mother cleaned the burners once a year or more. A friend's mother
cleaned them once a month. But friends of mine from my generation
didnt' clean them for the entire 10 years they had had the range. Of
course it was dirty and didn't light. (To be fair, his were harder
to clean than my mother's or mine when I had a gas stove)