Gas stove on yontif?

Gold Member Joined: Apr 29 2010 Posts: 1026

We recently moved and now have a gas stove. How do you safely leave a burner on on yontif?

Posted: Wed, Sep 08 2010, 7:28 am Post subject:

You just leave it on. Laughing

You can buy a Hagaz which cuts off the gas supply according to a timer.
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Platinum Member Joined: Aug 12 2007 Posts: 20484

When I leave a burner on, I always put a full kettle of water over it, to make me feel safe. Erev Shabbat, you would need to cover the flame. I don't really like leaving an open flame, for obvious reasons.
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Posted: Wed, Sep 08 2010, 8:48 am Post subject: re: Gas stove on yontif?

We have an American all gas stove and I use a blech even on yuntif. That means I have a flame going, cover it with the blech and keep a full kettle of water on the blech all yuntif. When I have to cook something I move the blech to one side, cook and then recover. That way the gas is always covered.
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Silver Member Joined: Jul 06 2006 Posts: 745

Do you have a pilot light. ask your Rav. Mine holds that if your stove has a pilot light you may turn on and off the burners, because you are only transfering the flame.

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Pilot lights are pretty much a thing of the past.

I leave a burner on and cover it with a blech when nothing is cooking/warming. I've been doing this for many years and the worse thing that ever happened was last year when my front and back doors were opened simultaneously and the wind blew out the flame.

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Posted: Wed, Sep 08 2010, 9:58 am Post subject: Re: re: Gas stove on yontif?

Posted: Wed, Sep 08 2010, 10:15 am Post subject: re: Gas stove on yontif?

You can't use a pilot which uses electronic ignition, that's ossur as far as I know.
In the "olden days" you could turn your oven on and off because you weren't extinguishing, as the pilot, which you could actually see, was never extinguished by it, it was just like "lessening the flame". But you could only light the stovetop by using a match to ignite and then letting the match fall and burn out by itself but you couldn't turn off what you had turned on, so I learned and so we did.

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We are NOT happy with all the new electronic gadgetry on ovens today. To say the least.

Posted: Wed, Sep 08 2010, 10:27 am Post subject: Re: re: Gas stove on yontif?

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My stove is the same, two pilot lights that you can see and that always need to be on. So I didn't ask but I assume it's okay since you are not extinguishing or lighting anything.
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Platinum Member Joined: Aug 12 2007 Posts: 20484

Forget extinguishing: I thought you are not allowed to lower a flame at all, only raise it. I hate these rules and regulations. So much to remember. Too much to absorb. So I leave my oven on. No flame. BH for a gas oven.
When gas ovens were manual, we could raise the heat. Electric was awful because we could never fiddle with it. Now, with everything electronic, we also can't touch the controls.
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I'll have to have a word with my food, then.

Gold Member Joined: Feb 12 2008 Posts: 2386

If you leave your stove on can you lower & raise it whenever you need to. With electric you can't because the element turns on and off so you watch the light, is it similar with gas?

I usually just leave an electric blech on but it would be easier to leave on my stove (if I can convince DH)

Posted: Sat, Sep 11 2010, 10:24 pm Post subject:

When I had an electric stove, we had s/o install a light that turned on when the electric was running. So when that light was on I could turn the knob to raise the heat and when the light was off, I could lower the heat.
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