Forgetting My Old Flame

And learning to love electric stoves

The other week I had a fun piece at The Bulwark, titled “Do Androids Dream of Electric Stoves?” (Yes, I wrote the headline.) This is something I never, ever thought I would write: an acknowledgment that electric stoves can, in fact, cook just fine.

Only about two years ago, I wrote this, basically dismissing the growing health and environmental opinion a…