Hamilton Beach makes a convection oven. Now it is not a normal sized oven, it is smaller, a counter top oven. But that thing works great, and it only uses a 110 outlet.
It's sort of a complicated answer. But I'll try and explain. Think of electricity as water. Amps would be the speed in which the water travels through the pipe. Volts would be the amount of water available or the size of the water pipe. Watts would be the amount of water needed. Now keep in mind most houses have a 100amp service. this means you can only receive 100 amps of electricity at any one time. (So water can only travel into your house at a certain speed) If your stove needs 1000 watts (lets say 1000 gals of water) and you feed your stove with 220volts (Lets call this a 2 inch pipe) then the water only needs to travel at a certain speed. Most stoves have a 30 amp breaker, so for argument sake will say 30 gal per minute. This leaves 70 gal per minute to fed the rest of the house. Now if you feed your stove 110 volts (a one inch pipe) you need to increase the speed in which the water flows to supply the 1000 watts (1000 gals). That increase might equal 60 amps (60 gal per minute) now you only have 40 gal of water per minute supplying there rest of the house. So if your stove used 110V and draws 60 amps during operation and your AC kicked on, and it draws 30 amps, and you walked over and heated up your coffee in the microwave that draws 15 amps, you'd be over 100 amps. Which would trip your main breaker. So by increasing the voltage (size of water pipe) you can slow down the amperage (speed of water) and run more things at once.
I hope this helps
standard stoves do not use standard outlets. You can get a toaster oven for your standard outlet. Yes, gas ranges only need 110v (actually standard outlets is about 120v) for the control panel. Any standard plug will fit into any standard outlet in the US . Some plugs may have a prong that is larger then the other so you my have to turn the plug over.
gas stoves use a 110 for the lights and ignitors.. a standard full size stove uses the 220 they do make small little boat stove ovens that run on 110 but they are usually maybe two elements and no real oven..
By standard I mean the kind of outlet you find all over your house, that you plug a lamp or TV or microwave into.
Call me dense, I'm completely ignorant about this stuff. We bought a stove that got delivered yesterday but had to return it because it uses a 220 plug instead of a 110, according to the delivery guy. He showed me what a 220 looks like, and I see that I can't use it. Are all regular household outlets "110" and can you plug any "110" shaped plug into them? And do any electric ovens come with that plug or will all of them have the 220?
And if they only come with 220, can I get a gas stove that comes with 110?
