Gas cookers

[Jazzer]

Anyone out there own an ariston gas cooker? WE have bought house which has Ariston typen CLG-PS-04 model C 057GP(x) F double oven. We can use the hob which has spark operated lighter. However we can not get the oven to work. We have never had a gas cooker before. Someone mentions pilot light. Anyone advise me how to light and where it is normally found.

[Alcazar]

Tried an e-mail/phone call to Ariston UK, who MAY be able to advise, send/sell you a manual, or help you download one? Or visit their website http://www.mtsgroup.com/uk/ariston/

They are part of the MERLONI group, so EC wide........

Alcazar

[Val_2]

Have you tried lighting the oven with a match.There may be a small hole at the front of the unit. Not all gas ovens are automatic lighting, I had a new Brandt cooker with spark ignition to the hob part and the oven had to be lit by a match - it only lasted four years and I now have an electric oven which I love,gas ovens you can keep especially french ones.

[BJSLIV]

This appears to be the manual for your type of cooker

http://www.ariston-france.fr/ariston/_pdf/manuals/19503730005_IT-UK-FR-SP-PO.pdf

Page 17 gives the lighting instructions.

Lighting the oven burner

• open the oven door;

• press and turn the thermostat knob "V" (with the symbol) and set it to maximum; keep it pushed.

Should there not be any electric energy, hold a lighted match near the central hole on the oven bottom as in

fig.3;

• keep the knob pressed in for around 10 seconds;

• release the knob, checking that the flame is stable release the knob, checking that the flame is stable, and hold the

door open for approximately 30-40 seconds;

• Close the oven door carefully to prevent the flame fromgoing out;

• wait around 10-12 minutes before placing any food to becooked into the oven, so as to preheat the oven suitably;

• set the temperature required for cooking by turning the thermostat knob to the positions ranging from 1 to 8 according to the following table:

Important: if the burner flame accidentally goes out, the gas continues to exit for a few moments before the safety

device activates.

Turn the control knob to the off position and do not attempt ignition again for at least 1 minute, thereby letting the gas

disperse, which could otherwise be a danger.

[Val_2]

Exactly the same as the Brandt gas oven I had, it was difficult to remember to hold the knob in for all those seconds at first until it got going.

[powerdesal]

If your Ariston cooker is same / similar to our Ariston 'Range' lpg gas cooker I would recommend using a barbecue gas lighter rather than a match. Ours has a hole / slot about 6 inches in from the LH wall of the oven, on the oven floor centreline which the ignition flame has to be immediately above. The grill has to be lit with a naked flame also.

I could never figure out why the piezo-chrystal ignitor was only available on the hob burners, it doesn't seem to be rocket science to fit it to the oven and grill.

Regards

[Jazzer]

Many thanks for all replies. I will be trying the big light up today. As a matter of interest I had emailed Ariston for adice 2 weeks ago without sucess. far more help on the forum!!

[Dave Plumb]

Being one of the old British gas engineers who gave up and left, one of the regular calls I got to new aquired ovens that would not light was sinply that if they were fitted with a time control it had been knocked onto to timer control and simply needed to be switched back to manual, try this if it has a clock

[Frederick]

Anybody found the Brandt oven on Buta Gas  (Blue ) bottles cooks very hot? It has the correct jets in .....but  you have to watch it as it burns the bottom of pastry dishes very  quickly and I mean burn  ....you can chip the charcoal off !

[Val_2]

All french butane gas ovens do this I'm afraid which is why after 17 years of cookers here I changed to electric fan oven and its absolutely wonderful and very very economic too which means the butane bottle for the matching hob lasts nearly a year now with daily use. I've burned through three cookers in those years by the way, the first one had no bottom left in it.

[Frederick]

Thanks for the information Val ......my wife was convinced I had bought her a duff cooker ..a Friday afternoon one ! ......she has  moved to roasting chickens  in a brick now as she has fast dried out and crisped up a few ...this thing seems to cook  with the heat of  a  bast furnace .... and its turned down low ! Its got the proper butagas regulator on the bottle .....I even changed that to see if it helped .

[Rob Roy]

[quote user="Frederick"]Thanks for the information Val ......my wife was convinced I had bought her a duff cooker ..a Friday afternoon one ! ......she has  moved to roasting chickens  in a brick now as she has fast dried out and crisped up a few ...this thing seems to cook  with the heat of  a  bast furnace .... and its turned down low ! Its got the proper butagas regulator on the bottle .....I even changed that to see if it helped .[/quote]

Don't start me on French gas ovens [:@] I found it helps to keep the roasting tray one notch below the other oven shelf and use the shelf with a normal roasting tin on it (and cook the roasts in foil). That way the tray acts as a deflector. If you need to use the tray as well try putting a rack in it so the food is not touching the bottom of it, it helps to eleminate some of the charcoal [:)]