A confession

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• Salix Babylonika

  2016-10-02 06:39:32

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  we have a gas stove and I don't know how to use it.
• Klinotaxis

  2016-10-02 06:41:17

  kill living beings
  

  I... am not sure if I have ever used a gas stove.
  
  I've used an electric stove, and I've booked over a fire once, but not this inbetween thing.
  
  I'm going to assume there's no integrated lighter and that you have to do that part yourself, even though that's stupid.
  
• Imipolex G

  2016-10-02 06:42:03

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  I'm afraid of stoves
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-10-02 06:42:45

  There is generally an integrated lighter in a gas stove.  If it doesn't light after a few attempts you might have a problem.  Some of them just attempt to light once per time you turn it past a certain point, while others have a range in which they try to keep lighting it continuously, if I recall correctly.
  
• Klinotaxis

  2016-10-02 06:44:11

  kill living beings
  

  Okay, then I will assume that the integrated lighter is a flint on a little mechanical arm.
  
• Obā-san

  2016-10-02 06:44:24

  
  

  #lifehacks to using a gas stove:
  
  * u turn the knob a bit until you get the clicky noise
  
  * wait until the fire is fire
  
  * cook
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-10-02 06:46:24 edited 2016-10-02 06:46:44

  Today is Tomorrow said:

  #lifehacks to using a gas stove:
  
  * u turn the knob a bit until you get the clicky noise
  
  * wait until the fire is fire
  
  * cook
  

  Yeah, that's basically how they work.
  
  If the clicky noise doesn't repeat by itself, you have to turn it back and forwards again to get the clicky noise again.  Repeat until the fire is fire.
  
• lee4hmz

  2016-10-02 07:59:18

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  Some really old gas stoves use a pilot light, and they won't light unless the pilot is burning or unless you use a match. You're not likely to see one of those now, though.
• Tatterhood

  2016-10-02 17:41:55

  When I was small, we had a gas stove, the kind with a real pilot light. It was replaced with an electric one long before I was old enough to use a stove myself.
  
  The only time I've actually used a gas stove was at my grandparents' house this past summer. I was slightly scared of it exploding every time, but really it isn't that different. (Of course, I didn't actually cook on it, just heated up the kettle a couple times.)
• eriophora zia

  2016-10-02 18:18:34

  I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god

  There is a gas stove at the house I am house-sitting. It's my first experience with gas stoves. I find it much more satisfying to cook with than an electric stove.

  
  

  It's just sorta fun to do mundane things like boil water for tea over literal visible fire. It's also a pretty blue colour! 
• Tre

  2016-10-02 18:29:57

  
  

  we used to have a gas stove back home before the tornado hit
  
  instead now we have one of those completely flat electric cooktops
• eriophora zia

  2016-10-02 18:41:12

  I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god

  The completely flat ones are very nice for cleaning, though they seems to get discolored stains on them a little too easily for my liking. My new apartment has one, and I'm not sure if I prefer it to the coil ones yet. 
• Klinotaxis

  2016-10-02 18:47:40

  kill living beings
  

  I prefer being able to see the resistor burners, somehow. Though maybe if I used a flat one I'd clean my oven more.
  
• eriophora zia

  2016-10-02 18:55:43

  I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god

  Yeah. Not being able to see them is the oddest part - it almost feels a little fake in some sense, even though I know that's silly. 
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-10-02 19:02:25

  Christmas said:

  When I was small, we had a gas stove, the kind with a real pilot light. It was replaced with an electric one long before I was old enough to use a stove myself.
  
  The only time I've actually used a gas stove was at my grandparents' house this past summer. I was slightly scared of it exploding every time, but really it isn't that different. (Of course, I didn't actually cook on it, just heated up the kettle a couple times.)

  I used to be slightly scared of it exploding too, but then I realized that as long as you didn't have a lot of the gas going around the room, but instead actually had a controlled stream that was being constantly burned off, then it was okay.  After all, it's widely used even in high-density settings like New York City apartments.
  

  Webber said:

  There is a gas stove at the house I am house-sitting. It's my first experience with gas stoves. I find it much more satisfying to cook with than an electric stove.

  
  

  It's just sorta fun to do mundane things like boil water for tea over literal visible fire. It's also a pretty blue colour! 

  Also electric stoves have a crapton of heat left over after the burner is turned off.  It's hard to use this heat, unfortunately.  You can sometimes leave something to finish boiling, but you can't boil anything new, and it just sorta goes into the house and gets wasted.  My mom sometimes fills a pot with a bit of water and lets the water soak up the heat but it's still kinda wasted.
  
• eriophora zia

  2016-10-02 19:04:23

  I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god

  Winters here get pretty chilly, so I reckon it's at least serving some purpose there. During summer I've usually tried to avoid using the stove as much as possible. 
• Tachyon

  2016-10-02 19:13:03

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  Our previous gas oven was a bit dodgy, in theory you were supposed to press the ignition button to light the gas, but often you'd have to use a match instead.
  
  The one we have now lights up automatically so it's not an issue.
  
  i think gas cookers are pretty easy to use, the biggest complaint i have is that a lot of recipes don't give the gas mark you need, just a temperature, and since i don't have those memorized i have to google it.