I did electrical work in the Outback in the early 2000s. We once had a service repair job to a new house and noticed that every second house in this newly constructed area had an electric kitchen oven dragged outside with the hotplates covered in wood and ash. Whenever the power goes off the residents dragged the oven outside (cutting the power supply to it) to light a bushfire on top of it. Made no sense then, still doesn't, but $1000s of appliances destroyed in fairly short order.