Abstract: A gas burner for a cooking device. The gas burner includes a burner head connected to a mixing pipe. An impeller disk is disposed above the burner head and below a cover. The impeller disk is operable to swirl a gas stream and defines a generally circular inner opening. The impeller disk includes a body and a plurality of paddle-shaped flame guidance members formed by a plurality of evenly-spaced and radially-directed cuts in the body. The flame guidance members are bent such that edges of the flame guidance members form oblique angles with the body. The edges each have an end disposed above the body and another end disposed below the body.

Abstract: A cooking assembly has a main burner, a pilot burner mounted in it and having a vent, a gas valve having separate main and pilot gas outlets, and a main-burner controller including a temperature sensor on the main burner, a control unit on the valve capable of varying gas output from the main gas outlet, and a capillary tube connected between the sensor and the control unit. This controller can vary gas flow from the main outlet in accordance with the temperature of the main burner as sensed by the sensor. An electrical igniter on the main burner can be energized by a switch on the valve. A pilot-burner controller connected to the switch includes a thermoelectric sensor in the pilot vent and blocks gas output from the gas outlets when insufficient heat is detected by its sensor and the switch is not closed.