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Karen, this company should be what you are looking for

they are in CA.

HTH Bobbie V

Karen C - California ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Surely you do not have to light it with the electric ignition? That broke a couple of times on my bbq and I bought one of those lighters that you can find in hardware stores for lighting bbq's and stoves. The flame ignites when you click it, then you hold the flame close to the source while turning on the burners, or burners in the oven.

I think trying to get a stove with a pilot now would be very expensive, they have caused too many accidents over the years.

Perhaps it would be simpler and cheaper to just get an electrician to put an outlet in behind the stove. I'm assuming you do have electricity in the kitchen for the fridge and the lights, so It shouldn't be too big a deal. I had a couple of extra outlets put into my house and they charged me about $30 bucks each.

Lucille

Unfortunately, the oven MUST be lit with the electic ignition. Reaching in to light the oven manually was deemed too dangerous, so it's been made impossible. Only the burners can be lit manually. So, if I want to use the oven, I have to trail an extension cord across the kitchen floor, and if the power is out, I can't use the oven at all.

I have a couple of leads now, including a local appliance store that still has a fully non-electric gas stove (and in my price range, too!). Thanks, folks! I knew someone would have an answer.

Send me your $30 electrician. Last time I had one out, it was $85 minimum, and I'm sure it's at least $100 now.

Unfortunately, 100-year-old house with limited electric retrofitted in, and we're getting into the range now of if we add more outlets, we have to add more circuits, which means extra cost.

But even an extra outlet doesn't solve the problem that with electric ignition, you can't use the oven during a power outage, and we have them frequently during Rainy Season when the wind and rain cause some of our many trees to fall. The entire point of having a gas stove is so that I *can* get hot food and warm clothes in the oven when the power is out and I'm cold.

Since I live in an all electric house, in an area that is notorious for high priced and very erratic electricity, you have my sympathies. But at least you can use the top burners in a blackout. I was reduced to eating cold tuna from the can last year during the major outages after the hurricanes.

Good luck.

Lucille

"Lucille" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

Indeed, you might have to enlarge the board which is costly even here.

I keep a little camping stove handy. If the power is out I can flash that up and it is surprising what can be done with just one burner.

After the hurricane when I had no power for a week and the freezer was starting to melt, I ate some really strange meals, cooked on a single burner with an eye to consuming the more expensive items in the freezer before the big chuck out. The gas BBQ was also handy and I heard of a woman who heated all the babies bottles on the barbie, she wouldn't have had a problem is she had been breast feeding lol

I have a friend whose daughter lives in Chalmette, LA; and when they were finally able to return home, they took a picture of the rubbish piles in front of their house (from them completely stripping the house), and they spray-painted the age of their appliances on each one. The deep freeze was

6 months old, and as a comment, one of their kids added "Fear Factor" as it had been without power for about 3-4 months!

I grew up in an all-electric house, and made up my mind I was never eating cold food again, I was going to have a gas stove for emergencies.

Of course, Lucille, you COULD buy a hibachi and some charcoal so you can cook after the next hurricane...... VBEG 'Canes leave the area within

24 hours, our heavy rains stick around for days, making outdoor cooking impossible.

I too live in a house that was built all electric - we have frequent power outages in the winter which are quite annoying, especially because our well runs on electricity also - so no power and no water!

2 years ago when the original stove/oven combo (El Diablo) died a long-awaited death we had plumbers out and had them run gas lines to the BBQ island in the backyard, the kitchen and the adjacent laundry room. I then had the local propane company come out and install a very large tank on the property and connect it up to my lovely new gas lines. Then we got a GE duel-fuel stove - the top burners are gas and the oven is electric convection. Since I bake quite a lot I found this was the best combination. The propane company hooked up the stove and I've never been happier - I love cooking on gas stove tops! A year later when the hand-me-down dryer died I replaced it with a gas model as well (Sears outlet, 1/2 price store) and the propane company retrofitted that as well.

So next power outage - I may not have water but I can cook on top of the stove :) MelissaD

Several problems with all the good advice. Health issues preclude my using a grill and creating smoke. No gas available where I live so I can't get a gas stove and most important., it's obvious you've never been in Florida during hurricane season. It's near impossible to see a whole day without thunderstorms, and two or three in a row is absolutely out of the question.

Out of necessity we've learned to cope as well as we can. When we hear that there's a major storm coming, we empty our freezers and cook whatever we can. Then we make sure we have as much ice as it's possible to create and stock up on water to drink and tubs full to use for washing and toilets, and whatever else we can think of. This time around it may be a little better because our local supermarket has put in a giant generator so maybe (I hope, I hope) we'll at least have a grocery store opened.

Oh well. That's one of the things you face when you live in (what other people call) "Paradise."

How I wish I could do that, but we're not allowed to bury a tank where I live. I would do it in a heartbeat. Unfortunately for us we had a problem with water too. Apparently the pumps work on electricity and we were without sewers and water for 4 days.

Oh well----

Lucille

"Lucille" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

My little camping stove which is butane driven would be okay for you - even it you only used it to make a cup of coffee or heat some soup.

Our paradise has been so wet this last couple of months I am suspicious you have sent some of yours up here lol

You're right. I really should look into one when I'm in Wal-Mart, or someplace like that.

Magic Chef

(Ididn't find this one on Whirlpool's site so it may be discontinued andyou'll have to do a little searching to find one available in your area.)Premier

psst: pressure tank for the well system. Pump water to the tank when the power's on, use what's in the tank when the power's off. I can stretch our 35 gallon pressure tank for at least 3 days if I have to...

You might consider a "cajun cooker" -- basically a single gas burner on legs, connected to a propane bottle. You can get a lot of heat from one and you can use it either outdoors or under some shelter (here in the rainy PNW I've been known to cook in the garage with both doors open).

I use our cooker most during canning season. Instead of heating up the house, I set it up on the patio and do all the processing of jars, etc., out there.

Not that it helps you at all but our tank is sitting on top of the ground on a small concrete pad - I think it's about 250 gallons. If it was mine I'd probably paint it to disguise it but it belongs to the propane co. so it stays white....might be better anyway if the fire dept. or someone needed to be aware that it was there.

Water is the hardest - I can only begin to imagine what a pain it is for you - we only have a few 8 hour outages now and then. Take care!