Flames licking the sides of saucepans

[kerrypie]

I have a problem with the wok burner ( large) flame on my Ilve gas cooktop. The other burners are ok but the big one seems to have a softer flame than the others. The flame comes around the sides of the saucepans and has burnt the handles of a couple of them.
Is there anything you can think of that might cause this. Many thanks, Kerry

[Dave_Conway]

Re: Flames licking the sides of saucepans

It’s probably the burner design but I would ask the Corgi engineer who installed it to check it for safety reasons.

In the meantime, please don’t use that burner 🙂

Make and model would help also 😉

Dave.

[gegsy]

Re: Flames licking the sides of saucepans

Hi
Is this something thats happened after you had cleaned it?Im thinking you havent seated the burners and or covers correctly.
If after checking its all seated , then its the same advice as Dave.

Greg

[kwatt]

I use a wok burner a fair bit, what sort of pan are you using on it?

I ask because the wok burners are generally designed for a round bottomed wok, they don’t work so well quite often with a normal flat-bottomed pan. Unless of course you have one with an internal and external independent burner.

The idea is to put a lot of heat into a wok for flash frying wich does not not really suit general cooking.

K.

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