why don't u get just get one of those $99 electric woks? they're pretty good, easy to clean or a bbq with a gas cooker and do your stir frys outside.
I cook malaysian chinese on electric and it's fine. It's more important to have good ventilation, have the exhaust fan ducted out, lots of windows etc coz it gets so smoky and the aroma from the chilli is strong enough to bring tears to your eyes.
another really dumb thing I did....my new house has an electric stove and we only found out after the house was built that the estate has natural gas!
luckily I'm not living there.
However, not all is lost. We are using gas for our hot water system. Because the builder and I only found out a few weeks back about the natural gas, there a really longw ait to get natural gas connected. I have been wiating 3 weeks already and seems like there are only 2 contractors and AGL and origin both use them...it's ridiculous. I actually spent the entire day on the phone to AGL and Origin yesterday, most of time just waiting on the phone. Anyway, we can't afford another 2 to 3 weeks wait with no hot water so we are going to use bottle gas instead. People on the estate are gonna see our bottles outsides and think we are idiots.