We will be using our oven for the first time over Thanksgiving. I was looking at our stove/oven and I know how to light the stove burners. But I'm unclear about the oven. Is it the old fashioned way where the oven door has to be opened and then a match is placed at the pilot light? Happy Thanksgiving!

Basically yes. Get a gas match, turn the control know to pilot on, press in and hold while you place the lighted gas match in the vicinity of the pilot orifice and wait. Mine usually can take two or three minutes to get lit the first time. After that I can light it off really quick.

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.

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.

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.We use 4 4 inch unglazed tiles works great makes a big difference in cooking bread!

It will take a while for the heat to warm the pilot. I have found if the oven has not been turned on before light one of burners to pull gas that way. The hard part is knowing the spot for the pilot. On my oven I do not have to push in the knob, just turn it to pilot. As you wait blood will rush to your head. Some will leave the pilot on but, I do not, to me it is a waste of fuel and might not use the oven for several days later.SharonPS: Make sure nothing is in the oven, I melted a cutting board.

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coolbreeze01
Explorer
Nov 27, 2013
Suggest you practice baking cookies, cakes, or pies before Thanksgiving. Have fun.
JordanH
Explorer II
Nov 26, 2013
CavemanCharlie wrote:
JordanH wrote:
Thanks! Ive experienced a toilet in a fire, im guessing it would be the same reaction. Wouldn't want that happening in the oven

Took me awhile to figure this out. I kept thinking what had he been eating to get his toilet to catch on fire? Now, I'm thinking you were a fire fighter and went into a home bathroom that was on fire.

Sorry for the confusion lol, I have done firefighting courses but not a firefighter. I experienced it from burning debris from tearing down a home, The toilet was amongst it and the coating flew off it in every direction.
CavemanCharlie
Explorer III
Nov 26, 2013
JordanH wrote:
Thanks! Ive experienced a toilet in a fire, im guessing it would be the same reaction. Wouldn't want that happening in the oven

Took me awhile to figure this out. I kept thinking what had he been eating to get his toilet to catch on fire? Now, I'm thinking you were a fire fighter and went into a home bathroom that was on fire.
JordanH
Explorer II
Nov 26, 2013
Thanks! Ive experienced a toilet in a fire, im guessing it would be the same reaction. Wouldn't want that happening in the oven
donn0128
Explorer II
Nov 26, 2013
JordanH wrote:
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!

Pizza stone or unglazed floor tiles make a wonderful heat sink to help balance the temp fluctuation's normally found in an RV oven. If you get floor tiles, be sure to get unglazed or you will be picking shards of exploded tiles up for weeks.
Wishbone51
Explorer
Nov 25, 2013
Yes.. Get an oven thermometer. I learned the hard way when I burned some gingerbread I was making.

I use my trailer stove, oven and fridge during Thanksgiving and Christmas, as there is never any room in the house.
Reader1
Explorer
Nov 25, 2013
doxiluvr wrote:
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.

This is what we do. Making sure the vent is running & you have had one of the burners on to make sure the gas has run through the line makes it easier. DH does ours. When I find him w/ his head in the oven, I wonder if he has finally decided living w/ me has done him in. :)
2012Coleman
Explorer II
Nov 25, 2013
How do you light an oven with a pizza stone? :h
12thgenusa
Explorer
Nov 25, 2013
Just convert to electronic ignition.
LynnandCarol
Explorer
Nov 25, 2013
I am still wayne_tw wrote:
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!

Maybe we SHOULD trade recipes as DW's black bottom rolls just aren't as good as they used to be:) :B