Woof then Bang

This is a bit amusing now but yesterday not so much. The kitchen we have in this temp house has a gas stove on one side and the electrical power point on the other side. We only moved into this house on Tues nite and had been fixing it up to make it work somewhat half decent at least. Some Leaking taps, some power outlets not working, some lights not working, no hot water. We bought a power strip to put in the kitchen to run the fridge and also bought a kettle and toaster. Ramona went to cook some noodles yesterday on the stove. She is scared to light these gas burners as the go woof some times. We have a little sparker we bought to light the burner as matches are too tricky. So I lit the big element on the stove and then went to light one of the other smaller ones. ½ way through that a large flame came out of the top of the stove and a large WOOF sound. The flame only lasted milli seconds but was long enough to singe the hairs on my arms. Ramona yelped and leaped back as did I. I turned the elements off and waited till our heart beats got back under control then tried the big element again. It lit then again after about 20 secs, another woof and a small flame this time came out the side. So we just turned it off again quickly. Ramona was still backed up against the other wall with her heart rate back up. Then about 1 min later the power strip we had bought which was now just behind Ramona blew up with a loud bang. This freaked her out even more as she didn’t know whether to run away from that towards the stove or run back to the power strip not knowing what was going on there at all. So making sure the stove was off and the power was off we tried to catch our breaths now and see what was going on.
Investigations showed the problem with the power strip was I had coiled up the spare lead then tied it up with a cable tie I got from a loaf of bread. This is really a no no as coiled electrical cables can cause induction heating of themselves. Where I had tied the coils together, the flex wire was melted, it had shorted out.
Next the stove. Ben the other Aust volunteer who is staying with us for the next 6-7 weeks, and I lifted the top of the stove up and examined the pipes coming from the gas bottle into the stove then spreading out, one pipe to each of the 4 burners. Sure enough that big burner had a loose nut. So what had been happening was when that burner was turned on, some gas was coming out under the top plate of the stove and filling the 4” deep cavity under that. Then once the cavity was full and the gas reached the flames on top, woof! We tightened up that nut real good like then Ben and I took turns at lighting an element then running out of the room to wait a minute or two. It all works good now.
But dang we probably aged several years in that 2-3 minutes. Ramona refuses to have anything to do with lighting the stove burners now. Can’t say I blame her.