The Gas Poker and Rubber Pipe

[Timbuck]

A great invention used in the 50's but was eventualy banned because people could stand on the rubber hose and put out the poker and gas themselves... a new type of hose came out that wouldn't squash..But the pokers went out of use in the end...Almost every house in those days had a gas outlet with a tap and a large brass babies dummy shaped nipple to push the tube onto.

[hutch]

If you did not have a gas cooker or a cooking stove what about the small gas ring with the rubber pipe easily pulled off, the health and safety people would blow a fuse, thats if electricity was laid on.

[JoeP]

I remember my aunt had a gas cooker with a gas poker on the side of it.

 

It was one of those odd things that I couldn't actually work out the use of.

 

I assume it was for lighting the grill, as the rings all lit from a pilot light / electric igniter thingie and the pipe wasn't long enough to allow it to light the oven.

[skippy]

I remember my mother lighting the coal fire using the gas poker, we thought we had won the pools in those days if we had a 2 burner gas ring, I would not want to go back to that kind of life, but being a kid in those days were great.

[muddycoffee]

We had one in our house in the 70s, but the hose was armoured so you couldn't put out the flame by standing on the hose.

 

It was basically a big bunsen burner which slotted in the bottom of the coal section. When the coals were red hot the fire would would stay alight by itself. The trouble with coal was the dust, the whole kitchen had a layre of coal dust on the top of the cupboards.