Frigidaire gas range power burner

[askolover]

My mother's gas stove LFGF3019NSA has a power burner on the front right side. Mother says it doesn't seem to be as hot as it used to be and she lit it to show me and I agree the flame does not flare out as wide as it used to. What would cause this? I looked down into the center hole and it's totally clean, all the slots in the burner base are clean, and the cap is on it correctly.

 

[vacerator]

Is it a double stack burner? Clean the bottom holes if so. Otherwise realign the burner cap so it breathes correctly.

 

[combo52]

Hi Gregg, how many BTUs is that right front burner on your mom‘s stove, it should be around 12,000 BTUs a look at the nameplate of the range will tell you.

The most likely problem is the orifice or orifices are slightly clogged. this can happen on any Surface burner on a gas stove. We have to clean them out all the time when people complain about lower than the usual flame sizes.

The ironic thing is with stoves like this. I’ve had quite a few customers over the years saying the fire is too big and they don’t like the way it Flares out beyond the pan they feel like it’s dangerous so we derate the burners we take one of the propane orifices that are packed in a little thing on the back of the range install that and drill it out to a lower BTU usually cut it down to about 10,000 so the flame is not so large

 

[askolover]

Thanks John. I think it is a 12k burner. It is smaller than the one on my own stove and it is a 15k..and mine the flame goes waaay out under a skillet. Next time I'm down there I'll go farther into it.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I love the power burner on my gas range...

I don't mind it flaring out, I had a Frigidaire that it did that on, and now I cook on a Samsung that also has it do it as well...

The thrills of cooking with gas, and making it my most-used for the fast cooking it does...



-- Dave

 

[agiflow]

I liked the four aluminum burners that were on my Tappan Centennial, I think they were like 9200 BTU but I never had a problem making whatever I cooked. All of them could simmer on the lowest setting.

Simmering is a little bit more important to me than flamethrower power. Current Amana has two huge front burners which make the flame shoot out the sides of a lot of my cookware which I don't really care for. I wish they would have just left all the burners standard size. Pick a BTU and stick with it. I have to say though it does bake beautifully.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Yes, the Simmer Burner: My old Frigidaire had it on the rear and funny how the last knob turned it on, while the next to last knob was for the front burner in front of it (the power burner)...

Of which I'd occasionally mix up, but my Samsung, also sporting Simmer, got it back right...

The simmer burner to me, works as a Keep Warm for stuff like my pot of coffee...



-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

Back in the day,Tappan had a burner with a thermocouple brain on the right front. Small low btu burners. Magic Chef were small too. I had a 1988 electronic model and I didn't love it.