On 6/15/19 7:53 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 6/15/2019 8:26 AM, jay wrote:
>> On 6/14/19 10:31 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> On 6/14/2019 11:38 PM, jay wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have propane in a kitchen and the one serious drawback is that it
>>>> produces a sticky residue that drops on the cabinets and countertop
>>>> and elsewhere.. and I have a decent vent hood.Â* Our heat and cooking
>>>> and water heater is propane.Â* 1000 gal tank and as you said the
>>>> propane company comes and keeps it full.Â* Don't even know it isn't
>>>> piped in.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We cooked with propane for 36 years on two different stoves and never
>>> had that problem.Â* Maybe you don't have the right regulator or
>>> orifices. Â*Â*Crappy vent too.
>>
>> This is good news.
>>
>> We've had this for kitchen 5 years and assumed it was the nature of LP
>> so not given it much more thought.
>>
>> The burners produce a nice clean looking blue flame and no soot on the
>> cookware.Â* The vent is larger than the stove and appears to pull.Â* If
>> it's the vent the problem is fixable as we can't change the fuel source.
>
> I should have been more specific.Â* Our vent was crappy, not yours.Â* For
> most quick things like frying an egg or heating water for tea, I never
> turned the vent on.

Our vent is certainly not top of the line. It's made by Broan and the
specs say 290 CFM. It is pretty. I am thinking too much oven cooking
happens with no vent in use. Some here don't like the noise. The oven
is electric. I turn on on the vent for all cooking but others here do
not.