Gas stoves can also keep you from freezing when the electricity goes out…
Not anymore. They need a cooking vessel on the burner to stay lit. The oven and burners have limiting timers on how long a burner can stay lighted. Walk away and in a half hour it has shut itself off if you were clever enough to put a three gallon pot of water on the stove top to get heat if your electric is out. Oven too. It’s now a :safety feature” being required.
> Gas stoves can also keep you from freezing when the electricity goes out… <
Oh, yes. Last January my electricity went out for three days. Yet I (and my cat) survived. I lit a burner on my gas stove. It ran almost continuously. My kitchen was toasty warm. So here I am today, alive and well.
But this is important! I opened a nearby window. And I put a carbon monoxide detector in my kitchen. No sense surviving a cold spell only to die of carbon monoxide poisoning.