The kitchen is the most important room in a house, like the kitchen is the most important room in the house the oven is the most important piece in the kitchen. It doesnt matter if is modern or old kitchen an oven is an oven. Some lucky people they have enought money to expend in a built in oven, you are going to have the best of the best.
Convection oven cooking is the best way of cooking, becauses of the air flow all the food is cooked evenly and faster, keeping all the flavors inside the food. Baking is also fabulouse and faster.
That is why cooking steak in the oven as well as cooking ribs in the oven can make the meat tender and with a lot of flavor. Belive it or not the best way of cooking bacon is in the oven, the bacon is become crispier and flat. One of the oldest receipes is cooking chicken in the oven thats why we now in these days the roast chicken. But dont worry if you dont have an oven you can always do cooking on the top of your stove with a dutch oven.