Nancy Young wrote:
> "biig" > wrote
>
> > Peter Huebner wrote:
>
> >> Yeah, with professional grade equipment. Alas, I've two friends in whose
> >> kitchen I HATE to cook, because they have gas tops. If there's the
> >> slightest
> >> breeze outside you have to close the windows, because you can no longer
> >> get the
> >> water to boil on their stove. At another friend's place the crossdraft
> >> blows
> >> the gas flame out alltogether.
> >
> > The only gas / propane stove I have ever used has been in our rv's
> > we've had over the years. Breezes are definitely a problem. I have
> > electric at home and always have. ....Sharon
>
> I can't imagine this ... all the years I've had gas stoves, only had
> an electric stove once and that was in my ex's apartment ... I
> have *never* had the gas flame blow out. Wouldn't even cross
> my mind it could happen.
>
> Wonder why that is?

Can happen with the older style gas stoves that have pilot lights and
don't have sealed burners... especially when these old style stoves are
installed contrary to instructions and municipal code. When idiots
decide to install gas stanchions themselves and don't read the rules,
they place the gas supply so that the stove will be installed in front
of a window and/or next to exterior doorways. I had a neighbor whose
gas burners kept blowing out, when I moved the stove to check there was
a hole in the floor where the gas line came up from the basement large
enough for a cat to crawl through... any gas stove Users manual will
explain how there must be caulking around where the gas line enters.
It shouldn't take any exceptionally high IQ to realize that open flames
can be blown out. But it's been quite a few years now since gas stoves
have been manufactured that have pilot lights and more and more have
sealed burners, and with the newer burner designs it's near impossible
to blow out the flame.