(Pls note this is the oven, not the cooktop/stove)This has happened to me twice In the past week and it makes me concerned.Propane tanks are full. Light the pilot. Crank up the temp to 450. Burner lights off. Check it 10 minutes later by feeling outside of oven. Hot!15-20 minutes later, go to get food. Not fully cooked. Burner and pilot out. No gas smell. Relight and finish cooking.No failures on the cooktop or fridge (fridge is on propane 8-10 hours a day)First time the happened, outside temps were in the mid 30's. Second time, outside temps were in the 60's. When failures occured fridge was on 110V and cooktop and water heater were not in use.Added note: temperature control on oven has always been poor. I have learned to adjust cooking time a bit and always set the oven temp to 450.Oven is 10 years old (came with TC when I bought it used.) Can I expect this problem to get worse?

My first guess would be the propane itself. In many areas they sell butane or a butane propane mixture. The vapour the stove runs on is created by the gas boiling in the tank, the boiling point of propane is -44 F. So at a temperature warmer than -44 the propane in your tank is boiling. However butane boils at 30 to 34 F. I suspect what your experiencing is fuel starvation, basically you're burning gas faster than the tank can supply it so you run out of gas and the burners all go out, even the pilot light.

I would guess the pilot is a bit clogged, and the pilot flame is too small. Once it gets up to temp, the main burner goes out, and the pilot cannot keep itself lit.

Our gas oven has a somewhat similar "feature". When preheatingthe oven, we have learned that we must crack the door for the first 8-10 minutes of the preheat. Otherwise, it will go out.However, once it is up to temperature, it stays lit, unlike yourcase.This has been the operating condition of the oven since new in '05, and has not changed for better or worse.

I was have the same problem with my oven, since I got my rig. Has it always been like that? I adjusted the thermo-couple probe to get it nearer to the flame and center to it. It has been working great since then. Give it a try. Gary

Chris Bryant wrote:I would guess the pilot is a bit clogged, and the pilot flame is too small. Once it gets up to temp, the main burner goes out, and the pilot cannot keep itself lit.That's what I was thinking. Using a straw try blowing at the pilot hole with your lungs and see if it clears up. Also, a little bit of carbon might have built up on the end of the pilot tube. Scrape it off with something like a fingernail file. You might even try banging on it lightly with a pair of pliers. Be careful though you don't want to make it worse and plug the hole completely up. It's such a teiny tiny pilot hole and flame it doesn't take much to get it clogged. Then when the main burner goes off, which sometimes happens with a poof, it blows the pilot out.

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portscanner
Explorer
Dec 14, 2014
JaxDad wrote:
My first guess would be the propane itself. In many areas they sell butane or a butane propane mixture.

The vapour the stove runs on is created by the gas boiling in the tank, the boiling point of propane is -44 F. So at a temperature warmer than -44 the propane in your tank is boiling. However butane boils at 30 to 34 F.

I suspect what your experiencing is fuel starvation, basically you're burning gas faster than the tank can supply it so you run out of gas and the burners all go out, even the pilot light.

I would agree with you, however, two facts stand in the way:

1. The problem occured in the afternoon when the ambient temp was above 60F
2. No problems with the fridge on propane or the burners on the top of the stove.
3. I fried up a mess of eggs and bacon (need to start posting pictures of my cooking like some other people do) the morning when item 1 above occured and it was 28F outside and had no problem.

CT_WANDERER wrote:
I was have the same problem with my oven, since I got my rig. Has it always been like that? I adjusted the thermo-couple probe to get it nearer to the flame and center to it. It has been working great since then. Give it a try. Gary

This is a new problem. It appears once it is relit, it stays lit. And it is not consistent. I have used it several other times without problems. I will see about the location of the thermocouple.

Chris Bryant wrote:
I would guess the pilot is a bit clogged, and the pilot flame is too small. Once it gets up to temp, the main burner goes out, and the pilot cannot keep itself lit.

How do you unclog it?
Caveman_Charlie
Explorer II
Dec 14, 2014
Chris Bryant wrote:
I would guess the pilot is a bit clogged, and the pilot flame is too small. Once it gets up to temp, the main burner goes out, and the pilot cannot keep itself lit.

That's what I was thinking. Using a straw try blowing at the pilot hole with your lungs and see if it clears up. Also, a little bit of carbon might have built up on the end of the pilot tube. Scrape it off with something like a fingernail file. You might even try banging on it lightly with a pair of pliers.

Be careful though you don't want to make it worse and plug the hole completely up.

It's such a teiny tiny pilot hole and flame it doesn't take much to get it clogged. Then when the main burner goes off, which sometimes happens with a poof, it blows the pilot out.
CT_WANDERER
Explorer
Dec 14, 2014
I was have the same problem with my oven, since I got my rig. Has it always been like that? I adjusted the thermo-couple probe to get it nearer to the flame and center to it. It has been working great since then. Give it a try. Gary
Louseman
Explorer
Dec 14, 2014
Our gas oven has a somewhat similar "feature". When preheating
the oven, we have learned that we must crack the door for the
first 8-10 minutes of the preheat. Otherwise, it will go out.
However, once it is up to temperature, it stays lit, unlike your
case.

This has been the operating condition of the oven since new in
'05, and has not changed for better or worse.
Chris_Bryant
Explorer II
Dec 14, 2014
I would guess the pilot is a bit clogged, and the pilot flame is too small. Once it gets up to temp, the main burner goes out, and the pilot cannot keep itself lit.
JaxDad
Explorer III
Dec 14, 2014
My first guess would be the propane itself. In many areas they sell butane or a butane propane mixture.

The vapour the stove runs on is created by the gas boiling in the tank, the boiling point of propane is -44 F. So at a temperature warmer than -44 the propane in your tank is boiling. However butane boils at 30 to 34 F.

I suspect what your experiencing is fuel starvation, basically you're burning gas faster than the tank can supply it so you run out of gas and the burners all go out, even the pilot light.

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