On Mon, 7 May 2018 12:45:49 -0400, S Viemeister
> wrote:

>On 5/7/2018 10:18 AM, wrote:
>
>> The only reason I turn my stove off when I leave home for a while is
>> because it's gas and when on a low simmer the flame can blow out from
>> a draft, has happened once when I opened the sliders but didn't notice
>> the flame was out for about twenty minutes when I smelled gas. Since
>> then I'm careful about opening the slider on a windy day when the
>> stove is on.
>>
>Mine has a flame-failure device - should the flame blow out, the gas is
>automatically shut off.

I have that for my oven but not my top burners... what stove do you
have?