In what way is electric superior for the oven? The cost of natural gas is lower than the cost of electricity.
If it wasn't clear from the context, I was not talking about cost to buy or to run - only what cooks/chefs/bakers/etc say does the best job (as Dan already replied about).
Speaking of dryers, I don't understand how we haven't come up with a more efficient method than dumping all the heat outside.
That's actually why I made that comment, since heat pump units generally don't require an outside vent. It came to my attention from a recent Matt Risinger (builder and vocal building science cheerleader on YT) about heat pump driers he put in his house, which he particularly likes because when you build a 'tight' house you want more control over any exchange of inside/outside air.
An electric heater can be just as efficient and produces no emissions. But what about the electricity used to run it? When natural gas is being burned in a power plant, only about 45 percent of the energy contained in it will be converted into electricity. As that electricity is transported and distributed, additional 6 to 10 percent is lost; and the amount of electrical energy delivered to a house is typically just one-third of the energy contained in the natural gas fuel. Consequently, the overall efficiency of a gas heater is almost three times as high than that of its all-electric counterpart.
That's why most discussion of switching heat based appliances to electric is around heat pumps and not resistance heating.
