My Gas Oven Smells Like Lighter Fluid

Stove Top Odor

• Each time you turn on the stove top burner, a gas stove will emit a small amount of gas into your home before the burner actually lights up. This will create a slight odor that will dissipate quickly. It is normal and doesn’t indicate that the oven isn’t working or that the gas small is dangerous.

Oven Odors

• If your gas oven is working properly, the oven will never emit a gas or lighter fluid odor. If this odor is coming from inside your oven, then turn off the oven immediately and disconnect it from the gas source. Immediately contact your gas provider and ask a technician to come and pinpoint the location of the odor. This precaution is necessary, as leaking gas can be fatal.

Broken Oven Components

• There can be various causes of an odor coming from your oven. If your oven spark igniter is broken, it will not be able to light up. This situation causes gas to leak into your home. In some cases the spark igniter may be broken and in other cases the electrical components that send signals to the igniter may be broken.

Oil-Based Paint

• In some cases a paint thinner or lighter fluid smell coming from your oven or stove top could be caused by drying paint. Paint fumes remain in your home’s air environment for several days. When the flame burns in your oven or on your stove top, it will draw air from your home to burn. If the air has paint fumes in it, the burners on the oven will enhance the paint thinner odor. This is normal and not harmful as long as your home is well ventilated.