Gas cookers.

It's a common myth that electric heaters and cookers are "much" more expensive than gas powered ones. This was true a few years ago, when the gas price was only 20-30% of the current price.

I do not know the power of gas/electric cookers, but the thermal comparison will be approx. the same than for gas heaters:
e.g. the common portable 4,200W (thermal power) gas heater needs 200g/h gas if 2 plates are burning (equals 2800W). With a 12kg gas bottle you can use the heater 60 hours and this costs you about 20 Euros for 1 gas bottle.

At a tariff of 0,18 Euro per kWh (up to 6,000Wh/yr) you can use a compareable electric convector heater (like a/c unit) or oil-filled radiator with 2,500W electrical=heating power for 45 hours to spend 20 Euros.
The same heating duration of 60 hours costs you 27 Euro, i.e. only 7 Euro more than heating with gas.

Yes, electric heating/cooking is still more expensive, but noch "much" more  

I prefer electric cookers and electric heaters since they are much more convenient to operate, can be left unattendent, can be used with timers, need quasi no maintenance, do not consume oxygen, do not emit CO2 and are generally much safer.

Markus

Markus, thanks I take your point. It's just that I prefer to cook with gas, it's far more controllable than electric. I think any chef would agree. In UK we have a gas hob and electric oven.

When we rented our place it had electric fitted oven, we asked to change to gas for cooking and he agreed. They simply removed the electric oven put in a gas fitted unit ( it still needs to be pluged in) , drilled through the wall and ran the pipe through the wall to the gas bottle on the outside balcony. There seems to be no enforced rule as some of our neighbours have them inside in a utility room and some outside on the balcony, your choice.

Terry