Bizarre? Maybe.

Chalk it up to paranoia (which is, in moderation, healthy when you're
going to sea).

When you light an LPG cooktop, you can see the flame and know that
it's burning and is not just an open source of LPG. Lighting an oven
is sometimes harder -- the lighter fails, or you have to reach in to
light it, or whatever. I have several times gotten a good solid
whuuuppp in the oven. Besides, many cooks prefer gas on top and
electric in the oven. The oven thermostat is more accurate with
electric than gas. And, finally, diesel (for the genset) is much
easier to load aboard than LPG.

We found that on Swee****er (Force Ten LPG stove with oven) we rarely
used the oven anyway.

Jim Woodward
www.mvFintry.com

"Lloyd Sumpter" wrote in message ...
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 06:23:23 +0000, Jim Woodward wrote:

Either eat your food raw or pick from a sorry crowd:

1) Electric -- have to run a genset or a big inverter with heavy
batteries. Can run on shore power in large marinas, but not small
ones. Fintry will have an electric oven, as I really don't like LPG
ovens.


This one I find just bizarre. You burn fuel to generate heat to generate
mechanical energy to generate electrical energy to generate...heat!

(BTW: I like my Force10 propane oven. Unlike most, it's thermostatically
controlled. Just be sure to disable the gimbal before you remove the
lasagna...)

Lloyd