How hot is it? Perhaps this is a four? Maybe a seven? I don’t know, never cared for electric heat. We get used to gas flames on stoves, and candlelight. Whistling kettles. Of course the children come in and do interesting projects with the wax and make four pillars into one with several stumps of taper candles around. But he remembers that she made eggs in the kitchen- which he never particularly liked- a kitchen with no table, and she remembers thinking how can you cook without a real flame in a kitchen with no table? They compared notes on kitchens like commuters who had obscure stations with too many steps and grey buildings staring them down.]]>