My parents constantly had electric appliances while I was growing up. The two of us had the same ancient stove for years that had originally come with the cabin when they first bought it. Since that ancient cabin was built in the 1940s, it’s anyone’s know how ancient the oven and range were. Regardless of their age, they served us well for years and I never had any complaints. When I tried gas stoves at a kitchen I worked at in private school, I nearly burnt the food the first few times because I wasn’t used to the power of the heat pumping out the hour you turn the flame up high. Since I was never obsessed with cooking, I didn’t see the need for this extra power. One electric appliance that was constantly underwhelming to me is the fan-forced oil furnace built into numerous central Heating in addition to A/C systems. Often the “oil furnace” is simply a heating coil inside the air handler near the evaporator coil. In this sense, you have heating and cooling inside a single machine, however I have never liked these setups. They burn up a lot of electricity for basic heating, so I recently switched to gas. However, you have to be careful once you beginning using gas appliances of any kind. I had never even heard of a carbon monoxide detector, let alone thought of buying a single when I replaced to a gas oil furnace. Thankfully my heating and cooling serviceman was responsible enough to tell me that I needed a single. He said that a carbon monoxide leak would kill me before I could ever aroma it or see it. That’s why the detectors are so important.