[llamaorama]

I was just thinking.

I am single, live in apartment by myself. I use my range about twice a week at the minimum, same with the oven. You can't really cook meat or fish in the microwave, duh. The microwave gets daily use of course.

I wouldn't want to go without my generic, low end electric stove/oven, however why does it have to be so huge? I feel like basically every American owns an oven with 2 or 3 racks, big enough to make a huge turkey and some casseroles at the same time. Growing up a traditional 4-person nuclear family we never made a humongous amount of food simultaneously in the oven except maybe during Thanksgiving. A normal person could get by with some kind of apparatus that's deep like a normal convection oven so as to accomodate a frozen pizza, but squat like a toaster oven. Make it like one of those fancy fan-based ovens that cook faster. Then a range top with just one or two burners.

I blame the Brady Bunch and their dual ovens. Alice must have been baking stuff all damn day.