Anyone have a gas stove?

[XMan]

Sometimes when we cook, there will be a black residue around the burners or around the edges of our stove door. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It wipes right up, no big deal there, but my wife is concerned.

I've searched Google and I'm going to call the propane company tomorrow, but for the life of me I don't know what it is . . . after all, propane is supposed to burn clean. It's done it when the tank has been nearly full, nearly empty, and in between . . .

Any ideas?

 

[Heisenberg]

It's probably excess carbon due to incomplete combustion. Propane burns pretty clean as long as there's enough air and ventilation, and everything's well maintained. The stove probably just needs a good cleaning somewhere in the piping/regulator/burners.

 

[deejayshakur]

call hank hill.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
It's probably excess carbon due to incomplete combustion. Propane burns pretty clean as long as there's enough air and ventilation, and everything's well maintained. The stove probably just needs a good cleaning somewhere in the piping/regulator/burners.

Hmm, really? It's a fairly new stove . . . just a year or two old. Would the self cleaning cycle take care of that?

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: XMan

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
It's probably excess carbon due to incomplete combustion. Propane burns pretty clean as long as there's enough air and ventilation, and everything's well maintained. The stove probably just needs a good cleaning somewhere in the piping/regulator/burners.

Hmm, really? It's a fairly new stove . . . just a year or two old. Would the self cleaning cycle take care of that?

If it's got a self-cleaning cycle it can't hurt to give it a shot. If it really is producing excess carbon, then it's not burning properly for some reason or another, although that seems odd if the stove is that new. Of course if the black stuff isn't carbon, then none of this applies.

 

[doze]

Could just be from dust and lint in the air or possibly carbon buildup from improper venting.

 

[Mermaidman]

Originally posted by: XMan
It's done it when the tank has been nearly full, nearly empty, and in between . . .

I've a dumb question--you use a tank? I've not seen that setup in the US.

edit: Answered by Boomer below--Thanks!

 

[BoomerD]

They don't generally pipe propane to homes...You may be thinking of natural gas.


OP, either contact the store where you bought the stove, OR your local propane supplier. Maybe a simple burner/air shutter adjustment...Oh, was the range originally sold for propane? MOST gas stoves can be used for natural gas or propane, but there are some minor adjustments that have to be made for them to work right...

 

[IEC]

Sounds like some kind of incomplete combustion.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
They don't generally pipe propane to homes...You may be thinking of natural gas.


OP, either contact the store where you bought the stove, OR your local propane supplier. Maybe a simple burner/air shutter adjustment...Oh, was the range originally sold for propane? MOST gas stoves can be used for natural gas or propane, but there are some minor adjustments that have to be made for them to work right...

Many rural areas have propane piped to the house from a large storage tank because NG is unavailable.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: BoomerD
They don't generally pipe propane to homes...You may be thinking of natural gas.


OP, either contact the store where you bought the stove, OR your local propane supplier. Maybe a simple burner/air shutter adjustment...Oh, was the range originally sold for propane? MOST gas stoves can be used for natural gas or propane, but there are some minor adjustments that have to be made for them to work right...

Many rural areas have propane piped to the house from a large storage tank because NG is unavailable.

My experience is that everyone has their own tank however, not set up on a communal system with gas meters like you get with natural gas. THAT is my point. I've lived in several places where natural gas wasn't available, ane folks had 500, 1000, 1500 gallon tanks somewhere on their property, and the propane was then piped to their house.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

you don't still have that puppy in there do you?

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Mill

Originally posted by: BoomerD
They don't generally pipe propane to homes...You may be thinking of natural gas.


OP, either contact the store where you bought the stove, OR your local propane supplier. Maybe a simple burner/air shutter adjustment...Oh, was the range originally sold for propane? MOST gas stoves can be used for natural gas or propane, but there are some minor adjustments that have to be made for them to work right...

Many rural areas have propane piped to the house from a large storage tank because NG is unavailable.

My experience is that everyone has their own tank however, not set up on a communal system with gas meters like you get with natural gas. THAT is my point. I've lived in several places where natural gas wasn't available, ane folks had 500, 1000, 1500 gallon tanks somewhere on their property, and the propane was then piped to their house.

I didn't say they did. I simply said that many homes are fed by a large propane tank. In the case I am most familiar with, my parent's home, they have a propane fed stove, heat, etc.

I don't understand what your point was.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
They don't generally pipe propane to homes...You may be thinking of natural gas.


OP, either contact the store where you bought the stove, OR your local propane supplier. Maybe a simple burner/air shutter adjustment...Oh, was the range originally sold for propane? MOST gas stoves can be used for natural gas or propane, but there are some minor adjustments that have to be made for them to work right...

You the man. My air shutter adjustments weren't set for LP, but for natural gas. Now I gotta clean all this %^@# up . . . oh well.