[Sca-cooks] OOP: Stove info wanted
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Tue Mar 19 13:57:33 PST 2002
What you need to look for is "piezoelectric ignition." Piezoelectric
substances are a group of minerals which produce electricity by mechanical
action and and mechanical action by being hit with electricity. A
piezoelectric igniter uses a mechanical action to trigger an electric spark.
If it fails you can light it up the old fashioned way.
Bear
> >Gas with a pilot light is nice if you want to do a lot of
> dried foods like=
> jerky, but an
> >electric stove will require power, and that can be expensive.
>
> This is the kind of thing I would never have thought of
> by myself, and=
> why the list can prove so helpful. I haven't done much
> looking yet, but I=
> think all the gas stoves I've read about have electronic
> ignition, so no j=
> erky on the pilot. :-( Does an electronic ignition mean
> that the burners=
> won't light if the power is off? Could I use an old
> bunsen-burner lighter=
> (or a match)?
>
> Sandra Kisner
> sjk3 at cornell.edu
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