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boil, boil, boil and trouble
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 07:32 pmNote to self: When using Qiao's gas stove, note that turning the dial past the high setting makes the flames get smaller again. Maybe that's why it was taking so long for the water to boil this time.
Every time I use that stove, I come up with another hypothesis as why it takes so long to boil the water or to cook the food: 1) The burner grate must not have been on straight, causing the pot to be further from the flames. 2) The top left burner seems to produce bigger flames than the bottom right one; I should use the former instead of the latter. 3) ...
When I turn on the stove hood's fan, air blows out of a vent on the top of the hood back into the kitchen. That confused me the first time I noticed it. But from what I've read, some hoods can be installed to either vent air out through a vent pipe, or (for those without a vent pipe) through a filter back into the kitchen. The cabinet over Qiao's stove has a vent pipe going through it. So I wonder if whoever installed the hood did it wrong. I need to figure out how to check that someday.
I dislike the smell of the exhaust gasses from the stove. It's not a smoky smell nor an (unburned) natural gas smell, but still not something that seems healthy to breathe in. (It's sort of like the stuffy smell you get from burning candles, but worse.) Maybe if the hood were working right, there'd be less of that smell. In the meantime, when I use the stove or oven, I open some windows and turn on a standing fan to blow the exhaust gasses outside.
Every time I use that stove, I come up with another hypothesis as why it takes so long to boil the water or to cook the food: 1) The burner grate must not have been on straight, causing the pot to be further from the flames. 2) The top left burner seems to produce bigger flames than the bottom right one; I should use the former instead of the latter. 3) ...
When I turn on the stove hood's fan, air blows out of a vent on the top of the hood back into the kitchen. That confused me the first time I noticed it. But from what I've read, some hoods can be installed to either vent air out through a vent pipe, or (for those without a vent pipe) through a filter back into the kitchen. The cabinet over Qiao's stove has a vent pipe going through it. So I wonder if whoever installed the hood did it wrong. I need to figure out how to check that someday.
I dislike the smell of the exhaust gasses from the stove. It's not a smoky smell nor an (unburned) natural gas smell, but still not something that seems healthy to breathe in. (It's sort of like the stuffy smell you get from burning candles, but worse.) Maybe if the hood were working right, there'd be less of that smell. In the meantime, when I use the stove or oven, I open some windows and turn on a standing fan to blow the exhaust gasses outside.