On a range top gas is always coming out of your pilot.
Commercial gas stove pilot light.
You may need to press it more than once.
Pilot light won t stay lit.
Hold down the red button on the gas safety valve to release gas.
Before you light it turn on the two back burners on the stove to bleed air from the gas line.
Remove the lighter when the small blue pilot flame starts burning but keep the oven control depressed.
How to light a standard oven.
In fact the average pilot light consumes 70 80 percent of gas used by a commercial range.
Push in the oven control while you hold a lighter in front of the pilot orifice.
In newer appliances ignition may be achieved by a sparking device or a glow bar instead of a pilot light.
The pilot light is a small open flame that is fed by a steady flow of gas.
If the pilot light remains lit then you know you need to replace the hi limit.
Be sure to set the thermostat to the off position and wait 5 minutes before attempting to relight the pilot.
So if your kitchen uses 1 000 therms of natural gas per month you may be able to cut that number down to just 200 300 therms simply by eliminating the pilot.
80 of the time the thermocouple causes this problem.
When a gas range is at the heart of your commercial kitchen any malfunction with your pilot and flash tubes can cause a huge problem.
This may require the help of another person.
Light pilot by pushing the red ignitor button.
If your pilot light will not stay lit on your commercial fryer it could be a result of a bad hi limit thermopile or combination safety gas valve.
Light the pilot light located within the burner with a lighter.
The pilot light is a small gas light meant to burn continuously in order to light a larger burner when needed but it may go out if a draft extinguishes the light its valve is dirty or the.
When lighting the pilot if the thermocouple is not directly in the flame it doesn t get hot enough to allow it to open the safety valve.
Over the course of a year that could mean thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in savings.
You can quickly check the hi limit by taking a wire off and connecting it with the other wire.
These tubes are essential because they deliver gas to the burner part of your range creating flames and cooking your food.