I'm moving at the end of this month, and for the first time ever, I will be living in a house with no natural gas.
My stove, oven, heater, water heater, clothes dryer, etc will all be run by eletricity.
I've enver even used an electric stove before.
Any tips on transitioning?
there isn't such a big difference, just make sure to turn your stove off as it isn't always obvious it's on.
I've used both kinds, and I find it easy to switch back and forth, though I prefer electric. Electric stoves take longer to go from cold to max heat, and longer to cool down when you turn them off. So if something is boiling over or burning you may want to move the pot to a cold burner. But since pretty much all of the heat transfers to the bottom of the pot, you don't get so much hot air going up the side of the pot and making the handles too hot to touch, and heating you on a hot day. I don't imagine you'd notice much difference with the water heater, etc.
I've used both kinds of stoves too, but I first switched in the other direction (electric to gas.) I found that for the first week or two of using gas after using electric my whole life I burned everything I tried to cook, I'd imagine there would be a similiar transition period in the other direction. The biggest issue is that electric stoves don't heat up nearly as quickly. The heat is also more regulated (as in, when you set the dial halfway, it really is half as hot as setting the dial the full way - not the case on gas stoves.) And yeah, make sure you don't leave it on.
I say everything the other girls have said I also had the transition from electric to gas and I much prefer gas, electric takes longer to heat up and once you use all the hot water theres no more for a while why it heats back up( which can suck in the middle of a shower)
my house it just like that! My big tip:do NOT take a shower durring a storm! Shampoo+no more water=a sticky form of HELL. other than that, I don't reallly have any problems ^^