[Sca-cooks] OOP: Stove info wanted

[Decker, Terry D.]

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