{"id":2112,"date":"2015-02-09T21:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T03:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2016-09-07T19:10:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:10:03","slug":"lighting-a-propane-stove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/lighting-a-propane-stove\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting a Propane Stove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I Skyped with my good friend L last night and he brought up something that he has told me before, in relation to my exploding BBQ lighter last night. It&#8217;s something that I&#8217;ve known for years and which he has shown and demonstrated to me, but which has never stuck. And it bothers me because I could have saved myself a lot of money over the years and also prevented yesterday&#8217;s accident.<\/p>\n<p>His words of wisdom?<\/p>\n<p><em>You don&#8217;t need fire to light a fire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s, of course, right. To light propane, all you need is a spark.<\/p>\n<p>I have friends who light their RV stoves with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004JBUKXI\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B004JBUKXI&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=travwithmir05-20&amp;linkId=YVY56DOPDN62LH6O\">flint spark torch igniters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had much luck with them for propane stoves. They are great for lighting a soldering torch because you can bring the tip of the torch right over the sparking surface, but with a round propane burner, you just can&#8217;t get in close enough. It takes me too long to light the stove with one of these and I have a mini explosion each time because the propane has time to build up.<\/p>\n<p>So you need the opposite scenario, a flint that creates a concentrated spark. Guess where you can get one of those? A BBQ lighter.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me back to my friend L. He has been lighting his RV stove with a depleted BBQ lighter for years.<\/p>\n<p>So guess how I lit my stove the four or five times I lit it today? Yup, with a spark from my now depleting BBQ lighter. It works great and I start the stove on the first snick of the lighter, rather than clicking it several times to get a flame going.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like a complete moron, but I plan to cook with gas for the rest of my life, so I have plenty of time to make up for years of stupidity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Skyped with my good friend L last night and he brought up something that he has told me before, in relation to my exploding BBQ lighter last night. It&#8217;s something that I&#8217;ve known for years and which he has shown and demonstrated to me, but which has never stuck. And it bothers me because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemaking","category-rving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}