For some reason, the gaslighter was on the kitchen table and I was looking at it. The long metal neck with a gas tube and spark gap; the piezo device and the gas tank at the other end; the trigger and the plastic handle and I thought - why?
Why has lighting a gas stove become so complicated? What happened to the little coil of platinum wire on the end of a stick which ignited the gas by catalytic action? Does the ignition only happen when there is town gas, not natural gas or is it all a cunning plan to sell more butane/piezo/plastic/metal bits over and over again?
Nick