I am friends with an older couple, who want to take out their electric range, and install a base cabinet and countertop in it’s place. They say that with just the two of them, they cook mostly with the microwave, crock pot and other small appliances, and haven’t used the oven or cook top in several years. The house is a 150-year old log cabin, that has had numerous updates. Some by people who knew what they were doing, and many that just hacked something together. Just to give you an idea of what kind of things I am finding: There is a newer breaker panel and main feed that were installed about ten years ago, just before my freinds bought the house. There wasn’t any code enforcement, or permitting at the time. Looking around the other day, I found something I had never seen before: Two of the circuits from the breaker panel feed through old fuse boxes, in which pennys have been installed under the fuses. The circuits, are protected by the breakers. So, I guess it might be safe, but I think that the old fuse boxes should probably be gutted, and converted to junction boxes, with the wiring tied together with wire nuts. Any way, back to the problem at hand. Would it be possible to make the existing 50-amp, 240-volt circuit for the range, into a feed to a subpanel, and then make two, 20-amp, 120-volt circuits, to feed new outlets in their small appliance cooking zone?