It sounds the same,Bemused, BUT (and this is a big but), my type of stove has not been available for purchase in NY during that time, and maybe not for about 20 years, due to the energy crisis. The state law made it mandatory to NOT allow energy to be consumed needlessly, as with a continuously burning pilot, which rendered all NEW stoves assur for what I have described. I don’t know if you are a New Yorker, as I am, so it IS possible you still have my type of stove, as out of state, they still manufactured this type of stove. I would show the stove to a rov (really), and ask him what you can do. My stovetop also is hot to the touch all the time, for the reason which you describe. Continuous means exactly that, there is never a time when the pilot light extinguishes. it burns 24/7. In the present day models the pilot is not on until the burner dial is turned and an electric spark ignites the pilot (that, I think, is the tick,tick,tick sound I have heard when my friend turns on her stove, and which I do not have). Then the regular burners go on. Clearly that would be assur to turn on and off on Yom Tov.
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