Pesach Questions

This question is more about chag in general than pesach in particular: are there ways to turn off a gas stove halachically on chag? Because of a machlochet in our household about safety of leaving the stove on over a multi-day period, we have not been cooking on chag at all for many years (we also won't leave the oven running), but that is rather burdensome avoid. I heard from some friends who "transfer" the flame to a candle while turning off the gas on the stove. Is that acceptable?

While the prevailing practice is not to turn off the gas flame on Yom Tov, there is a Halachikly acceptable lenient position that is cited in the name of Rav Moshe Feinstein zt"l (and which reflects my personal practice as well). In short, cutting off the gas while it is still en route to the flame is not considered a direct act of extinguishing, rather an act of "causing an extinguishing", something which the Talmud permits on Yom Tov (but NOT on Shabbat). In addition, since extinguishing a gas flame does not - and cannot - produce a coal, even directly extinguishing it would only be rabbinically forbidden, further buttressing the permissibility (on Yom Tov) of merely causing it to extinguish. 

Your friend's suggestion does not appear to me make any sense...

RYK