lighting the oven

old guy wrote:
if you have help let them push the oven pilot button while you lay on the floor to light the pilot light. ovens are a pain in the back side to light.

A tool almost as useful as a flashlight, is a 99cent store hand mirror. Lay it on the bottom of the oven and you can see where the pilot light is and if it's lit.

The mirror is also handy for looking in the back of over head cabinets and when backing the rig up, with a mirror in your hand you can reach and see more than your tow mirror plus look up and down.

Norm (another old guy)

I have never heard of putting a pizza stone in the oven to help with cooking, Ill have to try it this spring :) Here in Newfoundland we enjoy cooking our cook dinner on sundays, maybe this could help in cooking the moose roast!

From a 25 year appliance tech. I turn the oven up past pilot to about 300 or preheat temperature and light the pilot this way you have the burner lite flame on also. The main burner will not lite for around a minute normally so unless you have a major problem the main burner will not lite right off since the thermo bulb the wire below the flame needs to be red hot to open the safety valve. Been doing it this way both on home stoves with pilots and all my RVs since I learned how to do this years ago.

DUNEBUGGYDOUG wrote:
Slide the bottom cover out and you will be looking at the pilot light, no need to stand on your head

Same on ours.

I usually have my DH light the oven. Use one of those barbeque gas lighteners as they are longer and easier to stay lit. It takes a while to light. Also make sure the cover is off the burners if you have one, and run the fan on the vent hood/microwave. At least that is what our manual said.

VoodooMedicineMan wrote:
If this is the first time baking in this oven don't forget to put a pizza stone or some other heat distributing stone on the bottom rack.

Otherwise, you will have my wife's specialty for Thanksgiving...black bottom rolls.

Anyone want the recipe, just PM me. Apparently, they are easy to do since we seem to have them every Thanksgiving!

I have an old one....I use the butane strikers (long handled - easier to use). I have to turn mine up to about 250 deg.......way past where it says to have it on for lighting. Then I just run my striker front and back until it "catches". :)

First time using oven........

I would go light that oven off and then crank that oven dial up to 'broil' and let it heat for about 30 minutes with door just barely open and burn off any residue left from mfg.

Then when you want to use it......
Pizza stone (we use a 12" unglazed tera cotta tile)
Let it pre-heat until temp is actually reached (get an oven thermometer)
Then add 5 minutes extra cooking time

I used to have one that was so awkward to get to that I devised a simple way to light it. I'm kind of dizzy even when I'm sober. Let alone when I'm doing contortionist yoga exercises like trying to light an RV oven. So, I lit a can of Sterno and put it right under the pilot light. Then, I was able to sit up and push in the knob until the pilot lit. I removed the Sterno, and turned on the oven. Quick and easy.

Slide the bottom cover out and you will be looking at the pilot light, no need to stand on your head