Gas cooker on bottle gas?

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We have no gas supply to our village, and we cook by electric, would it be possible to run a gas cooker from bottled gas, having the bottle outside, obviously.:confused:
 
ok, so how would you fix the pipe to the cooker?

By a flexible rubber pipe designed for the job. The cooker will be jetted for bottle as opposed to natural gas. The people supplying the gas bottles should also provide the fittings for inside and outside and the pipe. Get a competent Gas Safe installer to plumb it for you.
 
Our Caravan does this :)

Amazing
 
Best to use propane (red cylinder) over butane (blue). Lower freezing point.
 
Plenty of domestic gas hobs and cookers on the market have kit to install either way (or indeed, both ways).

Very common, so you should not have any difficulty at all in doing it.
 
Thank you for the help :)looks like gas cooking is the way to go, cheaper too.
 
I always thought gas hob and electric oven was the best combination until I discovered induction hobs - speed and control of gas, easy clean flat top of electric. After a year of a gas hob in a rental house (and 24 years in a village with no gas!) we fitted an AEG induction hob - the 70cm one with 4 equal heating areas (model 7800 I think) rather than the more normal "1 small, 2 med 1 large" ring type. We would not change it for anything else now, even though we now have gas available!

Only thing about induction is that your saucepans etc must be magnetic or they won't work. Daughter got a nice set of saucepans as a result, we had to buy new.
 
Thank you for the help :)looks like gas cooking is the way to go, cheaper too.

Unless the coocker is made to run on LPG or butane,you'll need to covert it
 
Unless the coocker is made to run on LPG or butane,you'll need to covert it

There are many different models available than run off LPG, just need
to find a specialist supplier.

Our family home in Scotland has a ragbag of fuel sources including an ancient single cylinder generator with auto switch on capacity because the mains electricity is prone to failure at least once per winter thanks to overhead supply lines to the village. (Also acts an a useful alert that the power has failed if asleep: Thump...........thump.... thump...thump..thump.thump.thump.thump.thump.thump etc, etc)


Oil fired central heating (used as little as possible!)

2x Wood fired stoves (used as much as possible!)

LPG cooker, runs off 2 x 47Kg propane tanks with switchover valve. Seems to last around 5/6 months
 
There are many different models available than run off LPG

That is what I said no??You can buy a new one that is just plug and play but if it is not made to run LPG,it has to be converted
 
There are many different models available than run off LPG, just need
to find a specialist supplier.

Our family home in Scotland has a ragbag of fuel sources including an ancient single cylinder generator with auto switch on capacity because the mains electricity is prone to failure at least once per winter thanks to overhead supply lines to the village. (Also acts an a useful alert that the power has failed if asleep: Thump...........thump.... thump...thump..thump.thump.thump.thump.thump.thump etc, etc)


Oil fired central heating (used as little as possible!)

2x Wood fired stoves (used as much as possible!)

LPG cooker, runs off 2 x 47Kg propane tanks with switchover valve. Seems to last around 5/6 months

47 Kg?? Are you sure?

We run 2 x 13.15 Kg bottles, and they last about 8 months each.
 
A 7 kg propane bottle in my caravan (got 2 with an auto changeover valve) lasts around 15 days. That's fridge, cooker, hot water. Very rarely need the heating on.

So 8 months (say 240 days) from one double the size sounds astonishing, even if used just for cooking :dk:
 
A 7 kg propane bottle in my caravan (got 2 with an auto changeover valve) lasts around 15 days. That's fridge, cooker, hot water. Very rarely need the heating on.

So 8 months (say 240 days) from one double the size sounds astonishing, even if used just for cooking :dk:

But that's what we get. Our 8 ring cooker is gas, with electric ovens and grill. The cooker is used everyday, and my wife is a good cook so does not use a microwave much, except to defrost.
 
OK obviously oven & grill are gas too in our caravan, that's very good though.
 

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