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...

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[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

One of our dogs managed to use the turn and push to ignite to attempt to burn down the house by turning on a ring with a saucepan on it.
More often, obviously, they turn on the gas without igniting it (by more often I mean 'it happens every year or two').
Also I managed somehow to put a box with a new pair of trainers in on the hob and turn and ignite and slightly singe the said new trainers. The precise sequence of events remains unclear to me, I maintain that I managed to push and turn by accident using the box, but M thinks I absent mindedly thought 'I've put something on the hob, I'd better light it'.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'd like to mock the idea of putting something on the hob and lighting it, but that strikes me as exactly the sort of thing humans do.

Not very long ago I lit the hob and put the kettle on to make tea. I pottered off to get the milk before my brain politely pointed out that we have an electric kettle that plugs into the wall and is made of plastic. This is especially odd, because I've never lived in a house with any form of kettle other than a plug-in-the-wall one :(