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What do you call the machine where you cook?
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:47 pm
by 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?
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:42 pm
by 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"Stove" seems a bit out of date to me.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?
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:09 pm
by 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
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:10 pm
by Stephen Jones
Ceramic hobs
In British English you would ten dto say something is on the stove, but buy a new cooker. Go figure!
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:55 pm
by 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?)
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:57 pm
by 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.
Home, home on the range....
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:04 am
by 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.
Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:41 pm
by fluffyhamster
