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[heather]

Okay, every time I have to go re-light the pilot light on the hot water heater (it goes out whenever the power goes out because while the heater itself is gas-powered, the igniter thingy is electric), I'm afraid I'm going to blow my house up

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[celandineb]

I live in a 74-year-old house with - get this - the ORIGINAL gas stove. The oven has to be lighted with a match, and blows out on a fairly regular basis. There is a pilot for the range burners, but it's gone out a couple of times too (when there's been a big boil-over or something) and had to be relighted.

It does seem weird that your pilot goes out when the power goes out, even if the igniter is electric. The whole point of a pilot is that it keeps burning, after all, and shouldn't *need* to be relighted! The pilot on our water heater has never gone out in three years that I can recall.

[heather]

Oh lord, if I had a gas stove that I had to light, I'm not sure how much cooking I'd do. At least for the first little while.

And you know, I thought that was weird, too. The igniter's electric, but once the actual ignition happens, you'd think it would stay lit...

[celandineb]

Only the oven has to have the match-light, thankfully. I've gotten used to it; I like to cook too much not to.

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[heather]

eeeee! *draws hearts around this*

I love it! UNF.

[kaizoku]

My old apartment we had to do that. Though not when the power went out but after we'd had it off for the summer. The annoying thing, as I recall, was that it was really hard to tell on the stove whether the gas was actually going or not.