Kitchens on the telly

See Lorraine's kitchen, it's got a gas hob, will that use calor gas or will it be piped in properly to the studio?

Also This Morning, although I can't remember if their hob is electric or gas.

I'd have asked this in the Daybreak thread but I couldn't bring myself to open it.

i'd hazard a guess and say LPG as Smeg who supplied the products said the hobs are adaptable for LPG

http://www.smeguk.com/news/itv_this_morning/
http://www.smeguk.com/news/daybreak_lorraine/

It doesn't say for certain but that's my thinking behind it

It would certainly make sense, especially for set that are regularly struck and rebuild

I notice that the guests on Something for the Weekend - Channel 4 Edition wash their hands in a washing up bowl of water that has already been placed in the sink rather than running clean water. I expect the taps are ornamental only.

On a similar subject, I remember a few years ago that most of the This Morning kitchen was rolled in mid show and taken away again to make more space for the performance area.

The BBC safety policy for cooking in studios is on http://www.bbc.co.uk/safety/generalsafety/firesafety/fire-precautions-for-studios.html - seems it is portable bottled gas.

You might have a tank allowing you to have limited amounts of running water and therefore they don't want to waste it.

I recall James Martin made a big fuss about how lucky they were to get a tandoor oven on to Saturday Kitchen once, but I can remember it being hooked up to a bottle of gas. Maybe it was to do with the smoke it produced or cost/something else, but he got very excited at being "allowed" it.

Actually thinking about this further, any running water will likely be cold only, therefore the washing up bowl is likely the only hot water (filled from a kettle)