lighting your gas grill...

[Dismom+two]

Does your ignition on your gas grill work or do you have to do like me and light a match...toss the lit match and duck??

 

[Bob Slydell]

The electric starter worked for the requisite year or so that I think the manufacturers build into the warranty.

Now I use one of those long lighters to light it.

 

[BillSears]

Mine worked for abit then I swapped over to fireplace matches. They're nice and long and fit between the grill grid easily.

 

[Dismom+two]

Mine worked for abit then I swapped over to fireplace matches. They're nice and long and fit between the grill grid easily.

OH I'm too chicken for that!! I like the light and toss method!!

 

[cardaway]

Sounds like a flint issue. New flints are pretty cheap.

Just be sure to turn off the gas and let things vent for awhile if it doesn't take right away. Unless of course you think your eyebrows are too thick and are looking to change things up a little.

 

[Honu]

I fling the match and duck.

We always buy fairly inexpensive grills, because I'd rather buy a new one than clean it. I always thought that the auto-start breaking was because we purchased cheap, but our neighbors got this huge Lynx grill last summer and when they went to fire it up this spring, doh.

 

[mickeyfan2]

Mine still works. On our old grill I just replaced the ingnitor after 5 years or so.

 

[sweet angel]

Mine still works. This is the 3rd summer for this grill. The prior one we lit with a long lighter thru the little hole in the side.

 

[Meriweather]

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
I am a light and toss girl when it doesn't

 

[Aimeedyan]

Mine doesn't work anymore, either. I have a long handled lighter thingy that I stick through the hole on the side of the grill to light it.

And stand back as far as I can

 

[almacdonald]

We bought a department store special.... like $100. The starter still works 4 years later. The other half wants to convert it to natural gas (must be a guy thing) I told him under no circumstances is he to mess with my functioning ignitor!

 

[WishingOnAStar]

We had to use the Bic lighter thingy until I happened to be on my phone with my dad one day. I was complaining about how I hated it when dh wasn't home to light the grill because I was probably going to blow the whole thing up.
My dad says, "Did you replace the battery in the ignitor?"
Me: ----- dead silence ------ "the what?"


Problem solved!!!

 

[salmoneous]

The electric starter worked for the requisite year or so that I think the manufacturers build into the warranty.

Now I use one of those long lighters to light it.

Same here - I light from under the grill using one of the vent holes.

 

[Barbossa]

My grill has a spark igniter. One time it took too long for the igniter to work, when it did all of the accumulated gas lit up in my face. Felt like a strong puff of hot air, nothing on my face was hurt, which surprised me.

 

[paintnolish]

Jeez...time for new contacts. Mine are blurry and I thought it read "fighting your gas grill." Guess that was my WTH moment of the day...so far...the night is young!

 

[sugarpie]

Same here - I light from under the grill using one of the vent holes.

Same here, too. It was not a cheap grill, but the ignitor only worked for a few months. We give the grill a pretty good workout, though.

 

[freckles and boo]

Lighting the grill is my husband's job. He is a pyromaniac and I wouldn't want to deprive him of the opportunity to start a fire.