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When to stop using the range

Gas, fire and burn safety
guides.

What to do when you smell gas, how to smother a pan fire, and how to shut a range down when a burner or element will not turn off.

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Gas, fire and burn safety,
guide by guide.

A range is the one appliance in the kitchen that combines an open flame or a glowing element, a heavy door that swings out at knee height and a supply line of gas or 240-volt power, all at the spot where people stand to cook. These guides cover the moments when that combination turns from cooking into safety: a smell of gas, a range that could tip, and what burning gas does to the air in the room.

All 18 guides
A slide-in gas range under a window at dusk in an empty US home kitchen, every knob at off and the grates bare, a chair pushed back from the table as if someone has just left the room.
6-minute read

Smell Gas Near the Range? Leave First, Call From Outside

Why no knob, switch or phone gets touched, what to tell the gas utility, where gas can escape on a range, and why a detector backs up your nose.

A slide-in electric range fitted between white cabinets in a US home kitchen, its storage drawer pulled fully open and a flashlight lying on the floor beside it, its beam pointed into the dark space beneath the range.
6-minute read

Anti-Tip Brackets: How a Range Tips Forward and How to Check Yours

What CPSC found about range tip-overs, what the bracket looks like, the flashlight and tilt checks, why a fitted bracket stops holding, and recalls.

A freestanding gas range in a US home kitchen with a pot simmering on a rear burner over a small, even blue flame, the hood above it lit and running and the window beside it open a few inches.
5-minute read

Cooking With Gas and the Air in Your Kitchen

Nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide from burners, EPA's figures, a hood that vents outdoors, what flame color means, and habits that make the air worse.

When to stop using the range.

Each guide puts the action first and the explanation second. For gas the order never changes: everyone out, nothing switched, the utility called from outside. For tip-overs it is a flashlight and a gentle tilt before anyone gets hurt. For indoor air it is the hood switched on and a carbon monoxide alarm that works.

They are worth reading on a quiet day, especially after moving into a home with a gas range or after a new range has been delivered. None of them asks you to open a panel or loosen a fitting, and every one marks plainly where the owner's part stops and the utility's, the electrician's or a technician's begins.

Not sure where to start?

The short answerSmell Gas Near the Range? Leave First, Call From Outside

A range gas smell, sulfur or rotten eggs in the kitchen, means getting everyone out of the house without touching knobs, switches or phones, then calling the gas utility and 911 from a safe distance.

The short answerAnti-Tip Brackets: How a Range Tips Forward and How to Check Yours

A range anti-tip bracket is a small metal piece screwed to the floor or wall that holds a rear leveling leg, so the range cannot pitch forward when weight lands on the open oven door.

The short answerCooking With Gas and the Air in Your Kitchen

Gas range indoor air concerns come from burning fuel in the open kitchen: EPA names gas cooking among indoor sources of nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide.

When reading
is not enough.

If the checks in these guides did not settle it, the visit picks up from there, stop by stop.

What repairs cost
  1. 01Every burner and the oven, tried
  2. 02A price before any part goes in
  3. 03Common parts on board
  4. 04Fixed, then run hot

The problems
these answer.

Each has a page of its own, with the causes in the order worth checking.

All 17 problems
An empty US home kitchen with a freestanding stainless gas range, every burner unlit and the grates bare, the back door standing open to a bright yard where the family waits together. Gas, fire or electrical risk

Range Gas Smell

6 causes, cheapest first

 A gas range top in a US home kitchen with one burner cap lifted off and resting on a folded towel beside its grate, while the other burners burn with even blue flames under a pot of soup. Problem

Range Burner Won't Light

6 causes, cheapest first

 A close view of one gas range burner in a US home kitchen, a small blue spark jumping from the white igniter tip toward the unlit burner head, the black grates and knobs soft in the background. Problem

Range Burner Keeps Clicking

5 causes, cheapest first

 A freestanding range in a US home kitchen with its oven door hanging slightly open and tilted, one hinge visibly lower than the other, a baking sheet of pastries left on the range top. Problem

Range Oven Door Won't Close

6 causes, cheapest first
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Questions about
gas, fire and burn safety.

What is the first thing to do if the kitchen smells of gas?
Leave the house with everyone in it, without touching any knob, switch or phone on the way, and call the gas utility and 911 once you are well clear of the building.
Where do the safety figures in these guides come from?
From official sources only: CPSC for tip-overs, EPA for indoor air, gas utilities for leaks, and the manufacturers' own installation instructions and manuals. Each guide names its source under the section it supports.
Will a technician come out for a gas smell?
The gas utility comes first, because a suspected leak is its emergency. Once its crew has made the kitchen safe, a diagnostic visit can deal with the range's burners, valves and igniters.

The other
sections.

Split by what you are trying to find out rather than by which part of the appliance it concerns.

All guides
A gas range burner with a weak, uneven flame under an empty pan.
Why the range is acting that way

Common problems

A hand pressing a burner cap flat onto its base on a gas range, the grate set aside.
Range checks you can safely make

Troubleshooting

Burner caps and grates soaking in a sink beside a gas range, a soft brush on the counter.
Keeping the range out of trouble

Maintenance and prevention

A gas range and an induction range side by side in a bright kitchen, both clean and off.
Which range suits the kitchen

Choosing and comparing

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Set up to last

Installation and setup

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