Please help! Hosting tonight and the hob isn’t working!

[whatthen]

I’m having a few people over to watch the England match tonight. Last night I cooked a chilli and intended to heat it up and make the rice tonight. However, after cleaning the hob last night it will no longer turn on. None of the four rings will work. I can smell the gas, but there is no click to spark it.

What can I do? I’m at work till 5:30 and people are arriving at 6:30. The rice isn’t microwaveable packets, it’s uncooked rice that needs boiling in water.

Light all four? Hobs with a match let them burn off the moisture

then your chilli/rice issue and non lighting jobs issue should be cleared up

Please could you add some more comma splices to your post?

Is it working op?

Hob is fine. You don't want to try lighting the oven like that though, you have to stick your head and whole arm in there!

Luckily electric and working fine.

No, I’m hitting 40! Always had electric hobs as far as I can remember before this one though.

🙄

The anticipation is still building. Not going to try it till the guests are here later on. Living on the edge!

This assumes everyone uses brand new cookers all the time which they don't.

Just here to see if you lit it with matches and still have eyebrows.

I am at work. I don’t have time to go and buy these things.

I always cook rice in the microwave. Just boil the kettle pour water on rice in a microwave bowl. Cover by an inch and microwave for ten minutes. Fork through it and voila perfect fluffy rice.

Have you managed to light it ?

I was going to suggest doing jackets instead of rice ? Just microwave gir a few minutes then finish in the slow cooker or airfryer?

it’s easy enough to light, just use a low gas setting and a match, mine often won’t work after I’ve cleaned it, I think water gets into it. It might be dry by now anyway

Thank you, that’s a good idea.

This can’t be real, I’ve been lighting my gas fire with matches for literally years as the ignition stopped working. Not only that, wait for it, when I had no matches I’ve been known to take either a lit tealight or worse, a twisted piece of lit paper from the kitchen to the living room to light it.

The drama over a damp gas ring is unreal.

A post asking what to do, someone saying use a match, and a reply saying okay, is hardly drama.

You must live an extraordinary dull life if this counts as drama.

Is there drama?!

😂🥺🤪

Use a match. Mine hasn't worked for about ten years ;)

Fair enough. If you've always has electric cookers it's understandable that you may not know that you can light a (gas) hob burner with a match or firelighter. You can do the same with the gas oven.

I remember lighting my grandparents' oven like that, and I think my aunt's was the same. Wasn't that big a deal really, although I wouldn't have wanted to do it with a match.

Rice from the Chinese? Chilli in the oven ?

Presumably chilli is cooked but cold,put in a heatproof dish, cover in foil warm through in over 150 fan, check after 30 mins.
You could do the rice in oven too, keep covered in water,put a lid on oven proof dish or foil.

It’s gonna be a right laugh round OPs tonight 😂

@whatthen I'm 57 lol. Grew up in the 1970's ❤️

Why wouldn’t it be? What is the joke?