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Photography by E.W. Faircloth   My "go to" search engine is duckduckgo.com, because they don't track you like Google.  I must use it in 98% of my Internet searches. A few weeks ago, the electric ignition on one of my gas stove burners kept sparking.  Even when I turned off the gas knob off, it kept sparking.  The first thing I did was pull the plug. I took the electric cord out of the wall socket under cabinet.  That put a stop to that nonsense. Only a few days earlier, we had spent $230 having a SEARS repair guy replace a $2 rubber gasket on our refrigerator.  Which only took him about 15 minutes, by the way. SEARS charges $95 dollars just for the repair person to knock on your door.  Having something fixed is more. So I decided to call for a repair using General Electric, which makes my model of gas range. They cost more than SEARS, jeez.  At least SEARS credits the technician's travel fee to your final bill. Most cooks love cooking with gas.  I do too. One nice thing about having a gas stove which has be unplugged from the wall, you can light burners with a match, hello!  For the next two week, matches were my friends. In the meantime I used duckduckgo.com to see if I could repair the stove myself.  My search yielded great results. It seemed that it was possible that one of the switches(the knob sits on a one of these) will continue to spark if wet.  A couple of sites showed  how to dry and clean a switch.  I didn't see any water on surface of the stove near switch. Fast forward to tonight.  I decided to plug electric cord back in to see what would happen. Nothing! Nada! No sparking!!!! This means the ignition switch was wet after all. Over the past weeks, it had dried and save me over $250, at least, to have somebody come out.  And that's if it was someone honest.  Someone who would just clean the switch, not replace it, or say it couldn't be repaired.   ** Editors comment: So, if your gas stove starts sparking and doesn't stop, it may only be a wet switch and need a good cleaning.  Then again, it might be something which needs a professional.  This is not advice to help you blow up your house. Gas can be very dangerous. This blog is about photography.  Since I don't believe pictures are worth a 1000 words, I like to write a little something about my pictures. It is not the intention of this post to suggest any instructions for repairs.