Safety Kit Question

[Pokey Roberts]

Life is a risk.
You can not get out of it alive.
That being said, most things we use have some risk
associated with it.
Electricity will kill you grave yard dead, as opposed to just regular dead. But no one will
advocate not using electricity in the home because
it can kill you. The convenience outweighs the risk.
The same with Automobiles approximately 50,000 people are killed each year in auto accidents a
lot more are injured. No one stops driving.
Autos burn gas which is highly explosive and expensive, but no one is going back to walking.
Natural gas and or butane is explosive but the
convenience of keeping warm, drying our clothes,
heating water so we can keep clean, kill germs
when we wash dishes etc. outweigh the risk.
The convenience and taste of cooked food verses
raw. Much less the germs that are killed when
we cook our food.
Each person has to weigh the risk verses the benefit. No matter what we do, we can not totally
avoid all risk.

That being said I am willing to take the risk of
firing up Aunt Essie and trying to duplicate her
homemade biscuits
There is no safety system. This is at my fish camp. With those buscuits I am going to have
sawmill gravey and a bunch of eggs. I will feel
guilty for getting off of my heart healthy diet.
I will risk the stove blowing up and killing me.
I will risk the clogged arteries. Life is short
at best and I intend to enjoy mine. I do not have
a death wish But I am not so foolish to pass on some
small pleasures because of the risk.
I could be plugging in the toaster, standing in water and be killed trying to make toast.
I will take the risk and go out making home maid
bisquits.

I am not telling anyone else what to do. I am
saying that I am aware of the danger and will risk
it. That is my decision. If I blow My *** up,
you can say I told you so.
Pokey

[stoveman]

Hey Pokie, Our fish camp works just like yours. Except we add smokin' and drinkin'and Rock n' Roll! Just got the new Jerry Lee Lewis CD. The one where he does duets with BB King, **** Jagger, Niel Young, John Fogerty, Ringo Starr, Merle Haggard, Rod Stewart, George Jones, Willie, Eric Clapton, Little Richard, Don Henley, Kris Kristofferson and a bunch more old Rockers. It's a Killer!
Have the White Perch started bitin' up there? Sam

[jurzeygirl]

Hey, Sam.
I heard the Boss was on that somewhere, too. Heard one song from it the other night and it sounded pretty good. How do you like it?
Jess

[stoveman]

Jerry and Bruce Springsteen do Pink Calillac. That 70 year old Killer blows away everyone. You would think from the honkie tonk piano and his vocals that he was 19 again and playin' with elvis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins at Sun or the Louisiana Hayride! Who would ever think that Jerry Lee would do a Beatles tuneand make a beatle second to his performance. If you are a Jerry fan, this is probably his best. I failed to mention Jimmy Page, Robbie Roberson, Kid Rock, Toby Keith, Delaney Bramlett, and Buddy Guy. As you can tell I'm a Jerry Lee fan and the albumn is great.

[Pokey Roberts]

Sounds like I am at the wrong fish camp. Ours used
to be that way. I have had to quit everything.
Drinking, smokeing, sex[almost], good food etc.
In fact if I can give up profanity, I may take up
preaching. I had a famous uncle(**** Robertsl) that would do a
little faith healing, but he could never cure me.
I lost a leg when I was young (car wreck) but he
could never make it grow back.

The Music I can still enjoy, at least what I can
hear. I enjoy Jerry Lee and will get the CD.
Sounds great. I am one of the early Baby Boomers
Birth 1947. Sounds like some of you may be close.

If I were a Car I would be afraid to leave the
driveway.
Pokey

[jurzeygirl]

Well, thanks for the review. It sounds fantastic. I can't say I'm a big Jerry Lee fan b/c I don't own any of his records, but I enjoy his stuff and this sounded like a great cd.

I'm the child of a baby boomer, but grew up loving a lot of the same music. There is a fantastic station here near Philly called WXPN. You can stream it online if you're into that at wxpn.org (if you can't get it from a satellite station via radio). They play all independent singer/songwriter stuff and have some good programming. I heard the new Jerry Lee song from them and it sounded like he was still up to his old tricks.

My sincere apologies for the departure from stove-chat. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Enjoy.

[chipperhiker]

I'll try not to influence anyone else's choices about safety systems in the future. Enjoy your biscuits.

-jenn

<font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">[ October 04, 2006 06:22 PM: Message edited by: chipperhiker ]</font>

[spin321]

I'm confused about something.....
I think that I've read here on the board that some people shut of the oven pilot after each time they use the oven to help keep the kitchen cool. If it's possible to do that, wouldn't it be possible to just do the same until a safety system could be installed, thus alleviating the risk of it blowing out and filling the oven with gas? Addmitedly, I'm a bit ignorant about things as fanch schmancy as stoves with standing pilots as I am currently cooking on a stove that has neither an oven pilot or thermostat.

[Todd W. White]

The oven pilot light on a CHAMBERS without a safety system is never lit unless you are using the oven.

Instead of an oven pilot light, these units have a BYPASS FLAME, which stays on when the thermostat senses that the oven has reached the proper temperature and shuts the gas off that is going to the burner. When the temperature drops sufficiently, the thermostat turns the gas back on that feeds the burner, and the flame rises back up to the original height.

The problem a lot of CHAMBERS owners have is that the Bypass Flame is not set right, so, when the oven thermostat drops the main feed of gas to the oven burner, the flame goes out, releasing gas into the oven compartment. This can also happen when some cooks, never sure their food is cooking properly, have to look inside the oven "to check" on things, then slams the oven door shut, effectively blowing out the Bypass Flame. Proper calibration of the Bypass Flame (described in the Service Manual - do you have one?), eliminates the former problem, but will not guarantee that a "door slammer" won't blow out the Bypass Flame.

Of course, if you cook with the gas turned OFF, you don't have these problems - all of the gas is OFF as soon as you've reached the total time on the cooking chart found in the "Idle Hour" Cookbook (do you have one?).

<font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">[ October 05, 2006 10:59 AM: Message edited by: Todd W. White ]</font>

[jurzeygirl]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I appreciate it. Seems like I came off as a cheapskate or something. Not the case. I'm happy to spend the money to do the right thing.

Risk is a funny thing. If we had kids I would never have even thought twice about this. If I thought one my of cats could figure out how to turn on the stove, I never would have twice about it. But it's a known risk, and a legit one at that. And why have I quit smoking 15 times? Because I don't want to die young. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Guess Thelma will have to sit tight in the basement until we gather together the $200 +/-. Patience was never one of my assets.

Thanks.