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Life’s too short to cook on a range that sucks. If you liked the thing, I’d encourage you to fix it. You don’t, though, so get a new gas range. Paying a plumber to extend your gas line will be the best money you ever spent.
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Minir nitpick: it’s a gasfitter who would extend the pipe, not a plumber. Ditfferent (though overlapping) skill set. Plumbers’ work doesn’t go boom; gasfitters’ doesn’t flood the basement. I believe the qualifications and registrations are very different as well.
-Sunspace, whose father worked for the gas company, so we always had gas stoves when I was growing up. Little did I realise how spoiled we were…
So tell me again how you broke this thing. I want to get rid of the damn glass-top electric monstrosity in my kitchen but can’t justify the switch to gas until this one breaks.
Chicken wings, you say? Tell me more…
Coincidentally, I once also broke an oven while making chicken wings. The door stuck so I gave it a pull, and pulled one of the hinges clean out of the metal. Landlord replaced that one. Now we own.
For what it’s worth, my appliance tech neighbor hates electronic appliances, and he’s right. The ovens, dishwashers and the like that our parents had, with their cludgy mechanical timers, lasted for decades. There are no high dollar parts in these things unless they use electronic parts, and I have fixed years old washing machines by cleaning the timer contacts and had them last for years more.
I usually stick to all-mechanical appliances myself, but it seems that all but the cheapest appliances have some sort of electronics. Everyone wants a clock, a sabbath timer, or some other function on their stove, and the easiest way to do that is with an electronic circuit.