Each year it seems I read where some idiot is trying to heat their home
with their gas oven and dies from carbon monoxide.

This woman I know found her friend dead because she did that.
Her furnace quit so she turned on the oven .

My question. Gas stoves don't usually have much CO generated...after all
we can have the oven and burners on all day long and no one ever dies
cooking.

Why do people die of CO if they heat their house with the stove?

Each year it seems I read where some idiot is trying to heat their home
with their gas oven and dies from carbon monoxide.
This woman I know found her friend dead because she did that.
Her furnace quit so she turned on the oven .
My question. Gas stoves don't usually have much CO generated...after all
we can have the oven and burners on all day long and no one ever dies
cooking.
Why do people die of CO if they heat their house with the stove?



A quick google search results in quite a few useful web sites.

http://www.abe.iastate.edu/extension...anges-aen-205/

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/indoorair/co/

Our local volunteer Fire Depts. teamed-up to have this video produced
- CO safety awareness - I think they did a real great job of it !

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuC...hI5MD2en5XUMRQ

John T.

In article , says...

Each year it seems I read where some idiot is trying to heat their home
with their gas oven and dies from carbon monoxide.

This woman I know found her friend dead because she did that.
Her furnace quit so she turned on the oven .

My question. Gas stoves don't usually have much CO generated...after all
we can have the oven and burners on all day long and no one ever dies
cooking.

Why do people die of CO if they heat their house with the stove?

Partly because the stove is on longer and if the oven door is open the
flames may not burn correctly and produce more CO.

Along another item, several local people in a house was taken to the
hospital due to running a generator in the house. The electricity had
been turned off by the power company. I can see some not thinking about
the stove as it is already in the house, but not the generator.

Cant quote but what about cooking a turkey or running the clean cycle for hours?

Thanks folks, yes...if the oven is used for heating I suppose they had
the door open and it ran continuously.

Tomorrow when my wife cooks the turkey even if it is on for 6 hours,
the door would be closed and the duty cycle would probably not be more
than 20%

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:03:54 -0600, philo wrote:




Thanks folks, yes...if the oven is used for heating I suppose they had
the door open and it ran continuously.

Tomorrow when my wife cooks the turkey even if it is on for 6 hours,
the door would be closed and the duty cycle would probably not be more
than 20%

Now you kniow why cooks are dizzy by the time they get to the dinner
table!!!

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:03:54 -0600, philo wrote:




Thanks folks, yes...if the oven is used for heating I suppose they had
the door open and it ran continuously.

Tomorrow when my wife cooks the turkey even if it is on for 6 hours,
the door would be closed and the duty cycle would probably not be more
than 20%
and the temperature of the flame would be higher - and the combustion
more complete. Complete combustion yields absolutely NO CO.