Cooking off the grid

Yea, i'm still not even sure what all "safety" devices where in my Kenmore NG wall oven, but I found out (the hard way) that you cannot simply light the burner without electricity. Might have been a powered gas valve or something, but that thing was useless without electricity.

Now my peizo lit cooktop was awesome. It even got flooded and the ignitors were constantly sparking, so disconnecting it from the power and lighting it by hand worked like a charm. ALTHOUGH it had no thermocouple safety so you had to make sure not to bump the knobs and fill your house with gas. (but i would hate to have to replace a thermocouple on EVERY burner when they go bad..lol)

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Check into rocket stoves on the Google-ish. These can be made small, medium large and in a variety of styles and are good indoors and outdoors. I really like the outdoor models, designed for canning. Dirt and bricks is the least you need but yea, they can get fancier than that.

To begin with, I have a box woodstove that heats my house. I can cook hot meals on top of it. If it's not cold enough to have a fire, say maybe we've lost power due to spring thunderstorms, then I have a back up generator that I could fire up if needed. If it's a nice day, I could cook outside using my dutch ovens. If those don't work, vienna sandwich's!

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Why in the WORLD do you even need to do that when you can either just shut the bottle off, like you do on a gas grill, or turn the handle on the line that comes into the stove if it is hard lined into a main much bigger tank!!

Anybody here use a kerosene cooker?

I used a kerosene burner when I lived in S. Korea in the early 80s. I took a couple of minutes to heat up, but worked just fine. Vigilance in preventing spills when filling nips the smell problem in the bud.

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I'v a old propane stove I use in my canning kitchen works good . but years ago I got a deal on a old mealmaster coal n wood cook stove that works great a little wood or coal go's a long way .we used to use it in the spring when you just needed to take the chill out of the kitchen in the morning

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Thank you for asking. Maybe others were wondering the same thing?

The bottles are outside, and the hardlined on/off handle is located behind the stove. Both of those options you mentioned are a real pain in the neck to fiddle with, each and every time I want to use the stove. Seemed a lot simpler to disable the pilot lights. (The process can be easily reversed if needed.)

Here's a repost of one of the links I provided. It describes the easy-as-pie procedure I used, along with a real simple explanation of why anyone would want to do such a thing.

http://www.wikihow.com/Safely-Turn-o...Your-Gas-Stove



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lololol Arnie!!! I love the photo, and I can't stop giggling... Perfect caption: The Little Stove that Could! The pots are almost as big as the stove itself!


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I guess that would be a pain, I would still do it though before fiddling with the pilots. The gas stove in my basement is hard lined to the 1000 gallon tank and the shut off handle for it is about a foot from the stove all it takes it a bit of planning.

Thanks for the reminder. I've been meaning to construct one. Now leaning toward the brick, rather than the can-type.