Lighting the oven

Good question. Just last weekend I helped an older couple light theirs for the reasons you described. It was well worth the effort as they fed me like royalty.

I would take the tray above the burner out and then light the pilot. Easy access that way.

HERE is a mod for stove top AND oven electronic ignitor

Check out this Mod...scroll down to the oven part

Spark lighter for RV Oven....HERE

I leave the pilot on. It's also easier to ignite if you turn up the temp to 200 or so, getting the gas to flowing.

You really have to get on your knees?

2oldman wrote:
I leave the pilot on. It's also easier to ignite if you turn up the temp to 200 or so, getting the gas to flowing.

You really have to get on your knees?

Yes I have to get on my knee's. Wish it was a wall oven like my last house.

I've added the battery powered piezoelectric igniter to our oven. It makes life a lot easier on the knees. It's not that hard and works great.

My wife just gets her husband to do it!:W

LOFAT36 wrote:
Lighting the oven in our 5er is a PITA. Why don't they have an igniter for this like the 3 burners ? We don't use the oven much when we are south for about 5 months but getting down on my knee's (worse getting back up) is getting old real fast. And I'd rather not leave the pilot light on.

Your lucky you have a igniter for your 3 burners. A lot of us have to still light them by hand too.

Had a buddy that smoked and thought he was smart. Turned the gas on to the burner and the fiddled around trying to find his cigarette lighter. When he finally found it and put it to the burner the flame burned all the hair off of his hand and part of his arm.

We picked on him all weekend for that one. :p

Put in the battery powered igniter as specified in the above threads. I did and it works great. DW does a lot of oven work and with two replaced knees doesn't need the up and down, and I'm not always there. Take a few hours to do the mod and you won't be sorry.