Range · Answers
What Should I Do With a Wolf Range After a Power Outage?
Switch the oven off when the power goes — Wolf advises it for every outage, since the igniter needs electricity and a gas oven cannot be run safely without it. When power returns, set it again; if it will not light, turn the knob off and back on. Still nothing? Call Wolf Repair Woodinville, (425) 585-2373.
Two-Minute Check
Run it in order. Nothing here needs a panel off, a ladder or a wire touched.
- Turn the oven knob off the moment the lights go, and leave it there until the power has been back and steady for a few minutes.
- Surface burners only: knob to HIGH, a lighter six inches or longer at the ring's edge — never the oven, griddle, charbroiler, French top or wok burner.
- Light one burner at a time and stay beside it — with no power, a flame that goes out will not relight by itself.
- Once power is back, relight the oven as usual; no flame means knob to off, then on again.
- Stop here — call Wolf Repair Woodinville, (425) 585-2373. Call (425) 585-2373
Why the oven has to wait
A Wolf gas oven lights from an electric igniter, so it cannot be lit by hand. Left on through a brief outage, it lights itself once power returns; Wolf still recommends off, for safety.
Only the sealed surface burners may be hand-lit. Ovens, griddles, French tops and charbroilers run at higher output and must wait for the power, and the SRT wok burner cannot be hand-lit at all.
A dual fuel oven is electric and waits for the power too. A lit burner is not a room heater, Wolf warns.
When it still misbehaves afterwards
Around Cottage Lake, winter storms bring the overhead lines down often enough to plan for.
No relight, an odd display or burners clicking without catching once power is back deserve a call, not repeated tries. The windstorm field note explains why restoration does the damage.