How to prevent accidentally turning on gas stove

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like you need a new range. Never heard of this happening.

I have a four year old gas stove in my second house. We allowed someone to use it when we weren’t there. At some point before they left they knocked the knob and it was weeks before we found it. We are lucky to still have a house.

You should turn the gas off at the line when you're going to leave for a long time.

Our house is also heated with gas. And the story is actually worse. People stayed there while the stove was on and didn’t know what the smell was and never told us. We have since bought remote carbon dioxide sensors. It’s something.

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Anonymous wrote:Switch to induction. It's worth it.

Even that's not foolproof. My cat can activate the touch sensitive panels. If you don't store pans on the stove though, induction is safer.

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OP here, circling back in case someone comes across this thread in the future. I got the rangesafe knobs and they completely solved my problem.

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Anonymous wrote:As always, DCUM posters are unable to imagine anything outside of their own experience. 🙄

Agree with taking the knobs off and putting them in an adjacent drawer. Our electric range is in the island with front controls and it's easy to bump the touchpad controls for the oven when leaning over the stove or nudge the knobs when passing through.

Our stove also has a "lock" button but I'm not sure if it locks the stove knobs--I use it to turn off the touchpad when our cleaning people come because they tend to accidentally turn on the warming drawer.

Guilty.

I do find it difficult to imagine an adult carelessly nudging the knobs that release the deadly flammable gas.

Part of the problem is the design of the range knobs, but I’m guessing the other part is where the range is located and the foot traffic. Perhaps it’s on a corner. Ours was on the back wall of our kitchen, and we never had to walk by it very closely. Now we have induction, so no more knobs.

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Anonymous wrote:I have spent over 45 years of my life having gas stoves and that has never happened to me, or in any home I've lived in, and I've never seen or heard of it happening to anyone I know.

Are you sure this is how it happened? Were YOU the adult in question? Were you there and watching when it happened?

DP. bizarrely I’ve lived in the same house for 14 years and accidentally turned the burner on two times in the last week.