Electric frying pans are good for cooking in.
If you just want to cook something and don't want to use the stove or you don't have a stove then an electric frying pan is a good option.
An electric frying pan cooks a bit slower than a stove does but it's still a good thing to have and I've used electric frying pans in a dorm room before.
You can fry potatoes, hamburgers, fry eggs, make scrambled eggs, pancakes etc in the electric frying pan.
You just have to wait a bit longer for the food to cook but the electric frying pan does cook the food just fine.
Chicken can also be fried in the electric frying pan.
An electric frying pan uses between 800 to 1000 watts of electricity and are pretty cheap to use.