stove

We burn wood in a wood burning stove for heating our house most of the time. My lovely wife often cooks my dinner on top of the stove. One day I jokingly, and to my great regret, told her that she was using up all the heat cooking, and this was why it was chilly in the house. She asked why...

Ben Frankiln invented the electric stove? http://www.octavo.com/collections/projects/frkelc/?pageMode=marginalia&anecdote=four

My wife again brought up the hoary chestnut about food cooking better on gas stoves (flame) than electric (coils). You know: "all the great chefs prefer gas flame to electric coil". Is there anything to this? Do the heat distribution properties of metal pans change depending on the source of...