Thank you very much for taking the time to make the video. The top om my stove used to get very hot. Now, I know I can adjust the pilot light or completely shut it down. Much appreciated. --Peace.

I am considering adjusting my pilot lights, too. So much waste.

You may not love pilot flames but I do, I have pilots on everything ,my cooktop, my oven, both furnaces, and my water heater. plus up until about 10years ago I also had 2 three ton gas chillers (AC) that had pilots. They don't cost $5 a month, they only cost maybe 50 cents. We had a electronic start gas oven for 30 years and when the starter went out it you couldn't use the piece of crap because the gas valve won't open unless it gets the proper electric signal. The damn thing must have needed half a dozen new starters (at $200 a pop to the serviceman) over it's lifespan...So pilots actually save money, time, and labor not to mention the resource and energy chain wasted on making the useless short lived electronic starters. I simply turn off the furnace pilots in the summer, then let them burn all winter (with the added benefit that my furnaces can still heat the home during a power outage) because they have pilots. Pilots are greatest thing since sliced bread.

I’m from Australia, and I can say most of our gas stoves don’t have pilot lights. I live in Adelaide, South Australia and mains natural gas was introduced here until 1961 I believe, and before then all stoves were electric. Not sure about the gas stoves we had in the 60’s, but the majority of gas stoves in the 70’s onwards didn’t have pilot lights, and the cooktops and ovens have to be lit with an ignition, wether it may be a spark ignition, match or lighter. In my house the only pilot light we have for a gas appliances is for our heater furnace, which we turn off during the warmer seasons, and only use the heater when we absolutely need it, as our winters here are nowhere near as bone chillingly cold as yours in the US. We also have a gas hot water system, but that does have to stay on, as it’s constantly heating water on demand. Pilot lights to me are a waste of energy for the smallest little bit of convenience. It’s not that hard to use a bbq lighter to light a cooktop. However, sometimes it is a bit of a pain to light our oven, as sometimes you can’t se the spark at the back of the oven cavity when you push the button down. If you can’t see the spark, the oven will not light.

@sashuni1064

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To be fair, it’s been about 11 or 12 years (iirc) since the US banned the manufacture of these. Mine has pilot lights, but it’s about 15 years old. If you buy a new one, it has to be self lighting now for safety

@benkrake3678

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@@sashuni1064 I really think gas pilot lights are lazy and also potentially dangerous, as it’s a constant flame that’s always on. As he has already proven, it’s hot to the touch hot enough to melt a crayon. so not safe for kids. You also have to constantly make sure you keep combustibles like solvents and other chemicals away from it, as a pilot light can ignite fumes, resulting in catastrophic consequences, and from stories I have heard, this has happened in the past. There was another story of a kid that left his plastic toy trucks on the stove top, and accidentally knocked the knob on the stove turning on one of the burners, lighting the toy truck on fire. By the time his older sister could smell the smoke, it was too late. The fire was out of control, so they had to go up stairs and shut the bedroom door, because they were trapped. Luckily they survived in the burning house long enough for the fire fighters to arrive, and get them out. On another note, I find it interesting that gas tumble dryers are common in the US. I guess it’s because your winters are absolutely freezing compared to the winters we get here in Australia. Here, the majority of tumble dryers we have are electric and typically not full size like they are over there.

Excellent....and funny! Thanks for the tip.

Thank you soo much, appreciate the time you took to do this video. You answered a few questions I had, thanks!!

I think we could save a lot of gas if the majority of stoves and furnances were converted to spark ignition. One should be CAREFUL if they turn the pilot light off on a stove. This means the stove will need to be MATCH LIT EACH TIME IT IS TURNED ON. Failure to light a stove can result in a gas explosion if the gas is left out without flame and it fills up the room and finds an ignition source.

But when the pilot light is off I can smell gas in my house.

@greego5952

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that's because there's either a leak or you didn't turn off the pilot light valve.

lol perpetual flamery

Your estimated estimates don't account for how much less you're spending when people pay for heat and the minute less amount of heating they don't need to use because of the heat generated off the pilots. Also, do some figures in the gas wasted with burners on full and waiting for ignition of that flame from the electric spark on a electric ignition and the cost of electricity used while trying to flame up. Or, how about lives saved because a pilot is out and people with pilot lights know what to check where as people without pilots might be bit complacent and say they don't have a pilot light so no need to worry.

and now my crayon is a fish

I hate pilot lights..

To much nonsense

That was the farthest thing from a love story. Quite the opposite actually! What a waste of video time! ...enjoyed the Chicago-ish accent though.