Faking the kind of oven heat I'd get with just the pilot light
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 07:39:15 GMT, Adam Preble
> wrote:
>I have a gas oven with an electrical lighting system. I want to keep
>the oven in the 125F temperature range for long amounts of relatively
>unsupervised time (20 hours) in order to help malt corn. Since it
>doesn't have a pilot light and the "warm" setting is too hot, I'm trying
>to get clever.
>
>I have a little electric single range, and I was thinking of setting it
>to the lowest setting and resting a pizza stone on it. Could that work?
> I thought they relied on exciting the metal in cookware to heat
>properly, so a pizza stone by itself might not work. Should I use a
>cookie sheet or something else instead?
What volume are you trying to heat? If it's just a couple of cups,
perhaps a quart yogurt maker would work (110deg). Or an electric pad,
but I wouldn't use that 20 hr unsupervised. A dehydrator?
Sue(tm)
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