What do you call the machine where you cook?

[cftranslate]

Is that a stove? Is it a stove both in BrE and AmE?

What do you call the new electric ones made of ceramics?

[lolwhites]

"Stove" seems a bit out of date to me. I stick to "cooker", which can be gas or electric.

I'm not sure what you mean by the "electric ones made of ceramics"; a halogen hob, maybe?

[JuliaM]

In Australia and in Canada it is called a "stove", gas or electric. I'm not sure what you mean by ceramic though. Most of the stoves here are metal covered with (usually white) enamel.
Julia

[Stephen Jones]

Ceramic hobs

In British English you would ten dto say something is on the stove, but buy a new cooker. Go figure!

[Lorikeet]

In the U.S. I always called it a stove, although I knew stores use the word "range". (Did you want to buy a gas range or an electric one?)

[Lorikeet]

Oh how funny. After I posted, I noticed I was more remote than might have been necessary . Oh--and I have a rice cooker, but that is a different appliance altogether, and I have heard of solar cookers, but they aren't stoves.

[revel]

Hey all!

My mother called it a "stove" until she bought the new one with the overhead oven and the lower oven and the four heating elements and the bulit-in baking timer, then it was the "range" to distinguish it from the "stove". However, when we went "rustic" and bought a wood-burning one, it became a "stove" again. Remember, I'm American from the mid-west....

peace,
revel.

[fluffyhamster]

"What do you call the machine where you cook?" Hmm, a "Big Death Laser, like Bond gets strapped to by the bad guy in most of the Bond movies?"

Sorry, couldn't resist...