Check Your Carbon Monoxide Detectors, Bros
- Thread starter Dwight Schrute
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Glad you're ok. I got one a couple months ago when I moved in this new apartment. I don't really know why my parents never got em, I guess it's time to buy them a couple.
Gas-using people's problems...
Glad you're ok Dwight. Next move, make sure there's no Gas appliances, K?
Glad you're ok Dwight. Next move, make sure there's no Gas appliances, K?
Luke, all great chefs have a gas stove. ATM I have an electrical stove but I miss gas so much for preparing my food.
Well by all means then, if you miss more control over the heat while cooking (like a peasant) then go right ahead and risk your family's life by piping through their home an explosive gas that even if not ignighted can kill them by suffocation when it gets a tiny leak. :disgust:
Sometimes the darwin award winners sound just like the rest of humanity to me.
Paranoid much? So a guy opens a thread he had a car accident - "THAT'S WHAT YOU GET YOU CAR DRIVING PEASANTS". Also the fault wasn't in the technology but the fact his wife forgot to turn it off.
With all due respect I think you are being a bit paranoid here. Me and my wife have cooked on both for years and prefer gas. Gas is more responsive (heats up and cools down faster) to heating than electric. You can roast tomatoes and peppers without firing up the grill. With that said I prefer an electric over to bake with, because of the moister that gas ovens create.
Highlighting this, hoping it will be useful to someone someday. CO is odorless.
PS: Glad to know that everyone is alright.
Im shocked lapd didnt shoot anyone in the house and shoot ur dog.
Glad ur ok ( hugs and kisses). Jeffrey
Glad ur ok ( hugs and kisses). Jeffrey
Of course I'm paranoid. I thought that was crystal clear to everyone here by now. :thumbsup:
My point here is simply that you don't have these fatal problems when your wife forgets to turn off the electric range/oven.
So while it's not the technology's fault, it's certainly the consumer's fault for choosing a technology that has such a bad risk inherent with its' upkeep.
That's cool. Just remember, something as innocent as your house settling could rupture the gas pipe and you could have the same situation Dwight faced without even forgetting to turn off anything... But if cooking control is more important to you than avoiding that, by all means follow your desire.
TBH we cook daily around here... But I couldn't help myself with that peasant remark; I think this forum has given me some strange condition where I must insert the word 'peasant' in as many posts as I possibly can... And a bit in everyday speech as well...
And at least once in all tax documents, too.
i just was sitting here and i forgot that I put a pot of water on my gas stove like 20 minutes ago to boil
The senario you're describing isn't common. An electric stove could have a short and burn down your house. Why take that risk?!
CO2 is carbon dioxide. You mean CO.
Leaving a stove on with no flame shouldn't release CO, it should release methane (or propane/butane), which would probably smell because of the mercaptan they put in it... unless there was some combustion going on.
Nope.
The Mercaptan is HEAVIER than natural gas and collects in the BOTTOM of the tank.
It's put there so that when you fire up the stove and SMELL IT you know it's time to get the Tank refilled. You ONLY SMELL IT when the Tank is LOW on Natural Gas.
So, if his Tank was still pretty full there would be NO ODOR.
Just an FYI.
Glad to hear you and yours are OK Dwight.