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214skier
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Jan 02, 2016

Oven pilot light

While camping, do you leave your oven pilot light on?

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  • We only light it when we use it. I did the battery powered sparker mod to the burners and added an electrode to light the oven pilot. We use our oven pretty much every trip (except the trip when it was over 100 outside). We've had our trailer one season and never used the microwave.
  • I don't light it until I decide to use oven, then I leave it on until I get ready to leave. Usually once I light it, I will then use the oven a few more times. It also depends on outside temp, I am more likely to light and use oven when it is cold (or at least cool) outside.
  • I would if I used it. In over 40 years of camping I think I have seen the oven used 2 or 3 times.
  • We lit ours as needed. In the 8 days we camped we used it probably 5 times. But, it's so easy to light it's not a big deal.
  • We don't use our over very often...so I only light it when we are going to actually use it.