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Quality control notwithstanding, an orifice in a blackpipe jet burner will burn just as efficiently as the most expensive, fashionable, upscale gas range you can find. Adjustment and use is where the problem lays; proper adjustment and use give efficient burning. Expensive name brand burners...

I think the focus on LP/Nat Gas is on symptoms rather than cause. Well adjusted gas burners do not require high volume ventilation, but do require some ventilation. Poorly wired 240 VAC is a killer, but correctly wired and insulated is safe. Build and adjust correctly and either is safe as...

Au contraire, a range burner or oven burner is precisely the same thing as a turkey fryer burner: fuel air mix, ignition, flame, heat, etc. The question is, whether the fuel air mix is correct: yellow flame = inefficient burning = elevated levels of CO residual. Blue flame = efficient burning...

In the rural United States what do you imagine they store in those big silver/white tanks near the house? We used to call it butane, but it is commonly liquified propane gas. Household heating and cooking fuel for rural residences.

Is it safe to bake a cake or boil water on a kitchen LP/Nat Gas stove/oven? Adjust your equipment correctly: it is just a burner, not a dragon or a nuclear reactor.

Subject: Open hydrocarbon gas flame indoors. Considerations: I find it hard to believe that many of the frequenters of this board have not experienced open flame natural gas or LPG heaters indoors. It is common, safe and inefficient. If you brew on LP burners and they are well tuned(minimal...