[Neil44]

I used to use an electric kiln to do firings for my partner. It was fun working on the process. Our house had a lowish supply voltage so I ran 10mm2 cable back to the consumer unit, and experimented with the impedance of the elements, as we did a lot of quite high firings. I used an electronic kiln controller mostly but occasionally verified it against an Orton cone. Gas would have been more economical but a bit more scary, for me anyway.

[silves89]

It's scary for me too! And way less economical in the UK than electric. My small electric kiln costs £5 to fire. My big (perhaps 4 times the size) gas kiln costs £70-£80.

I'd much prefer firing with wood. But I'm too suburban and firing with wood takes much more effort in prep and during firing, but it's a pleasant and exciting experience! Which gas firing is not.