Our Range growing up
There was a wonderful round skillet that came with the range.
One put it on the heat minder burner, as indicated above, and set the blue, white red colored thermostat for the heat you needed. Much like a sideboard electric skillet except with more btu available.
The egg timer I came to love/hate. My mom would set it to ring to get me up and going. she'd let it ring, ding.....ding......ding..... and the only way to shut the thing up was to get up and walk all the way to the kitchen. smart of her I guess.