squeak- you are confusing apples and oranges….lowering the flame on shabbos is a melocho. However, oomis was saying that- in case of zorech- on YOM TOV you can lower the flame. Now, that, I imagine, you will not dispute. All I added was that in lowering the flame to the point of it only including the pilot light-it comes under that hetter because you are not “extinguishing’ (mechabeh)the flame. You maintain (as you write)that the pilot light is another flame and hence you have extinghished a flame. The poskim that oomis quotes disagreed.
I see no disservice to anyone to quote acceptable hetterim. What is a disservice is to claim that there is only one valid halacha view.NOW that is something that brings us to the sinas chinom that stems from ‘machlokes korach ve-adosoi”
your reply to oomis shows your mistake and let me explain.
the hetter of using fire on yom tov comes from ‘zorech ochel nefesh” that implies cooking. EXTINGUISHING A FLAME is not considered the need for cooking and hence, “mechabeh” is ossur. HOWEVER, if you need the lowering of the flame to conitnue cooking, it is ALLOWED as per ochel nefesh. Oomis is saying that, in previous times, you could lower the flame- in the PROCESS of cooking-until only the pilot light was lit. As long as there was some fire, it was not considerd mechabeh. That is the gist of her words.