I am considering installing a 50 gallon propane gas tank outside my house for kitchen cooking. Lines will be buried and then run up through the attic and then down to a propane oven and cook top.
Does anyone here have any experience with propane appliances? Will I feel like I am cooking with gas? Are there any negatives with such a set-up?
I don’t want to cook with electricity, I love cooking with gas. The home we will be moving into is too far from existing gas lines to reasonably connect.
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generally the only difference between LP & Nat is the price of the gas LP is usually higher
order your appliances for Lp gas and they will work smoother as LP gas is at a higher pressure the holes in the burners are slightly smaller
having said that most gas equipment is convertable its just that the proper burners work better
i held a license as a fitter instaler for a number of years thus the answers above
another factor in gas is that the appliances seem to last forever ps i have the stove
You will be cooking with gas, so don't worry about that part. I've cooked on a propane range many times at my BIL, and I haven't noticed any performance differences with my natural gas range at home.
As Dude said, order you appliances made for LP, especially the cooktop. Unless you particularly like a gas oven, it might be easier, and less expensive to have an electric oven, with a gas cooktop. What brands were you considering?
Just because your children were born in the South doesn't make them Southerners. If a cat has kittens in the oven, does that make them biscuits?
Both my kitchen and my heating system work off of propane. My stove works just like any other gas range have never had any problems except that I have heard that propane does not burn as hot as gas. I have a kitchen aid gas/electric oven model whose burners have very high BTU's (I cannot remember how high they are but they were comparable to viking). It does seem to take a bit longer to boil water than I remember it taking on a regular gas range and my pans do not seem to get as hot as they do on my mothers regular gas viking range but it could be my imagination. Maybe it has to do with what the other poster was saying about ranges specifically made for propane. I did not know they existed. Mine is a regular gas which has an easily installed converter. I hope this makes sense. I do not know much about the nature of gas/propane but I do remember reading somewhere about how it does not burn as hot but I could have misunderstood. You might want to look into it before making your decision.
I hate cooking on electric ranges and was very happy that the house I bought had a propane range.