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This was more excitement than I really needed.
I went to make myself a pot of pasta, because I Desire Starch. Found a pot, picked out a pasta, went over to the stove, tried turning it on, and the burner wouldn't light. The one behind it would. The other two would. The default-use one wouldn't.
Take all the cruft off the stove, check pilot lights. All fine. Reassemble stove. Try again. Now neither of the front burners work. Reassemble stove more carefully. Right burner works. Left burner still doesn't work.
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teinedreugan to demand knowledge of what he did with the stove. "It lights fine." "Not thirty seconds ago!" Stomp off again.
Try lighting burners with a match. That works, at least. Become faintly distressed by the gas smell in the kitchen. Put the pot on the right front burner.teinedreugan comes down to see if I've gotten it to work. Nope. He turns it on and stares at it while it hisses, turns it off. I explain that this is where the gas smell came from. We discuss explanations and the weirdness of one of the other burners, then he goes back upstairs.
I ask him if he minds if I open the window. I open the window, then on a lark, try the burner again.
It lights.
oneironaut says "Clearly, the burner will only work when the window is open." It's sort of cold for that on a regular basis right now; it snowed again today.
At least I'll stop worrying that it'll blow up now.
I went to make myself a pot of pasta, because I Desire Starch. Found a pot, picked out a pasta, went over to the stove, tried turning it on, and the burner wouldn't light. The one behind it would. The other two would. The default-use one wouldn't.
Take all the cruft off the stove, check pilot lights. All fine. Reassemble stove. Try again. Now neither of the front burners work. Reassemble stove more carefully. Right burner works. Left burner still doesn't work.
Go wake up
teinedreugan to demand knowledge of what he did with the stove. "It lights fine." "Not thirty seconds ago!" Stomp off again.Try lighting burners with a match. That works, at least. Become faintly distressed by the gas smell in the kitchen. Put the pot on the right front burner.
teinedreugan comes down to see if I've gotten it to work. Nope. He turns it on and stares at it while it hisses, turns it off. I explain that this is where the gas smell came from. We discuss explanations and the weirdness of one of the other burners, then he goes back upstairs.I ask him if he minds if I open the window. I open the window, then on a lark, try the burner again.
It lights.
oneironaut says "Clearly, the burner will only work when the window is open." It's sort of cold for that on a regular basis right now; it snowed again today.At least I'll stop worrying that it'll blow up now.
