Category: Daily Living
Okay, here's the deal. I'm subletting an apartment for the summer in the Bronx. It's the first time I'm really truly living on my own (dorms with meal plans and no kitchens don't count). This apartment has a gas stove. I've never cooked with one of these; my family has always had electric ranges and ovens.
Do you guys have any tips for a totally blind person using a gas stove? I mean, tips on how to, you know, not set myself on fire and things of that nature? According to the girl I'm subletting from, "it's not the kind of stove you have to light. You just turn the knob and the flame comes on." That's a bit of a relief, but still, any tips would be helpful. I'm relatively confident with my cooking skills. I mean, yeah, I might not be able to cook you a seven course gourmet meal, but I'm definitely past the point of raw meat squicking me out and being afraid of the clouds of steam that rise from boiling pots. But, you know. Gas flame. Bit scary.
I love gas stoves. Just remember to not put your hand to colse tot he burner when youturn it on. otherwise its pretty simple.
It's pretty much like cooking with an electric stove.
The heat is more powerful so be careful if you cook on low.
The burners cool off faster as well.
otherwise it's pretty much the same.
Like someone has alreddy sed, don't tuch the berners, cause duuuugh you will birn your self. And don't leve anything flamable on the middle of the stove between the berners. Anyway.Good for you getting a gass stove! Though's are the best. Just think, if you lost power you would still be able to cook. All you would have to do is stick the vary end of a lighter between the flame hole and the side of the berner, you no ware the fire comes out and squeze it to libht the gass. I should no, we had our power out for a hole week, and that stove saved our butts. And btw, the people that were useing it, my mother and I are totely blind. Let us no how it goes, and good luck!
I really like to use a gas stove because it heats and cools quickly. There is an advantage to using a gas stove in my opinion because it takes a lot of listening. The trick is to know the height of the flame by putting your hand just a little bit above the burner, not touching it but several inches from it. You can tell how high your flame is by the intensity of the heat. Oh, how I miss my gas stove and dislike my electric range. My stove would click about three or four times before igniting. It was nice. *SIGH*
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My trick is to turn the flame all the way on full then hold my hand over it as I lower it to the desired height. I really like gas stoves. The lower the flame the better the cooking specially if you have non stick pots.
It's a lot scarier than it sounds, personally, I'd never swap back. You can go on it a lot by sound. Never put the gas on the lowest setting, because it's more likely to go out on you half way through whatever you're doing. Try putting it say, one mark up. It may help you to get something to label the marks with. Mine are labeled, but I never bother with it coz I just listen. All the dammage you'll do by having the gas up to high really is puts over-boiling, and you can hear when a pot is boiling...... If not though, there are these weird disk contraptions that you can place in the bottom of the pot, which will vibrate when the contence reaches boiling point. Always remember to keep stirring whatever your cooking so that the bottom doesnt' burn to the pan. As long as you carry on stirring, and are fairly libberal with the heat, you shouldn't really have too many pboelems. Likewise though, I would have something on totally full gas unless you are willing to stay there and stir constantly.
I don't do my own cooking, but in the food technology lessons at school, I used a gas cooker because I could hear the when the stove was on. I think that's why they told me to use a gas cooker, anyway. I also use those boil alert disks to boil water, but it does say on the instructions that they don't work with milk, because milk is obviously thicker than water.
I also go by sound. You can tell a lot by that. I rather miss my gas stove truth be told.