I'm the trouble starter, punkin' instigator.

[venta]

Having recently spent a little time investigating new cookers, I am curious to know your opinion on the ignition buttons on gas hobs. Your answer is unlikely to affect my cooker-purchasing actions, but having discovered in the pub last night what an unexpectedly polarising question this is, I'm now curious...

[Poll #2060995]

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

My landlord has an electric hob, I get no say in it. My parents have the separate button ignition kind, I prefer the combined kind but they're both ok.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I was confused by your response since the first two options were meant to be mutually exclusive :) I did mean to include a "both are fine" option but apparently forgot.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I am quite capable of wanting two hobs simultaneously. :D

[zotz]

Put me down for "Both are fine" also. And "This is seriously something people care about?" and "I tried one of those induction hobs recently. Seemed nice."

[venta.livejournal.com]

I care principally because I usually have a pan in one hand, light the gas with the other, check it's lit properly, and put the pan down. So combined knobbage means easy one-handed ignition.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I have non-combined ignition, and simply put the pan down first and then light the gas underneath it. It doesn't seem to be a problem at all.

Also, your pavlova in the other post looks lovely! Your choux wreath looked lovely too - apologies for omitting to comment on it at the time.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I wasn't complaining that two-handed ignition was a terrible thing :) merely that I am grumpy stick-in-the-mud and if i do a thing one way, I would like to continue doing it that way unless there is a compelling reason to change!

(Plus thank you, and please don't feel you have to comment on things!)