A mate had a gas cooker condemned because when the lid was put down over the burners the safety cutout did not work - a fire risk. No requirement to have a lid at all, so surely its OK to just remove the lid, which he did. A gas bloke said this would be OK but then phoned back and said it would not since the cooker would still fail a safety test as "modified". Anyone know what should be permitted here ? Cheers, Simon.
Changed subject - well its not a "safety lid" is it ?
Interesting
My cooker has a lid which if closed cuts off the gas
However there is no flame failure device so if the lid is up and the gas on close the lid flame goes out open lid gas back on no flame
Or if the flame blows out
So mine has never been safe
I assume that modern gas hobs all have flame failure devices
Regards
there are other ways. In commercial kitchens there is (should be) a gas valve in the supply which won't operate unless the extractor fan is switched on.
TMC :
Same here.
Ours is 1997 vintage.
Mine doesn't - three years old.
Jonathan
Traditionally, gas burners didn't give off enough gas to reach the explosive level in a house with the expected number of air changes per hour. Cookers with a large wok or fish kettle burner would have a flame failure detector on that large burner.
Nowadays, with new homes being air-tight, this may have changed.
Do they? I haven't looked at a new gas cooker for years, but a change in requirements for air-tight homes could well have caused that.
Found this
Interesting. Our cheap model cooker is safer in that respect. Close the lid and it machanically returns all the gas knobs to the off position.
If the minimum (simmer) setting is set up correctly, it's very hard to accidentally blow out a gas cooker.
SteveW
Your wrong lol and obviously don't have a clue about what your saying
We have no idea what you are talking about.
He's arguing with someone from 2012, and dosn't know the difference between you're and your.
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