Galley design - safe distance between multifuel stove and gas cooker?

[imranino]

Hi you lovely bunch!

I'm designing a new galley for my boat and I was wondering if there is a safe distance between a gas cooker and a mutli-fuel stove I should consider? Should I aim to keep them as far away from each other as possible? 

Thanks in advance

[BEngo]

No need to separate them at all on technical/safety  grounds- the stove will not harm the cooker, or vice versa.  They will both have been designed to get hot without coming to harm.

It will not be  nice cooking next to a blazing  stove though and if the cooker were right next to the stove the heat from the stove will not circulate well.  I would aim to get at least a 6 in air gap all round the stove- there is a Code of Practice which deals with solid fuel stoves- and to have it position so that I could stand a use the cooker without getting toasted by the fire.

Think also about gas pipe routing, assuming you are having a gas cooker.   The pipe will not mind being warm, and the gas can't burn inside the pipe 'cos there is no oxygen,  but I would not want a joint anywhere near a stove, just in case of a leak.

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[imranino]

Thanks! Somehow I hadn't even considered the heat!

Great info, thanks so much! They were always going to be on opposite sides - the cooker port side and the stove starboard - so no issues with the gas pipe going near the stove.

I just needed to know how flexible I could be with its placement

[OldGoat]

Hopefully 'opposite' doesn't imply exactly opposite.  Working the cooker with a hot stove dead opposite could be quite unpleasant, especially when using the oven. Mine a re next to each other and loading the oven with a large joint / chicken / turkey often results in a toasted bum....

[imranino]

Not unless it's the only way to fit everything in!