What do you call it ?

[petek]

In a similar vein to the pop versus soda debacle what do you call your stand alone all in one cooking appliance? A stove or a range? Most people I know have always referred to it as a "stove" regardless of them always being advertized as a "range" in magazines and brochures. Here's an article link .

Oven, stove, range—what’s the difference, anyway?

Have you been calling your appliance by the wrong name?

www.reviewed.com

 

[ea56]

Stove, range just doesn’t sound right to me.  

 

I think its because all my family was originally from the the mid west, prairie states.  Once I was taking my grandma up to my Mom’s house on the Northern California coast and we were half way through the 45 mile drive when grandma said we had to turn back because she left the “fire”on.  I said grandma, you don’t have a fire, you live in a mobile home.  Well she was insistent and in a frenzy because she was recovering from a stroke.  When we got back to her house we found that she had left a stove burner on low.  Good thing she remembered and I turned back!

 

When we got to Mom’s house I told her the story about the “fire” being left on.  I was only 19 at the time and had never heard this terminology before, or so I thought.  Mom told me that this was Kansas speak, that they called anything that produced heat “the fire”, but she quickly also stated that she didn’t do this, because she’d lived in California since she was 7 years old, she was more modern.

 

Well, I was helping her in the kitchen to make dinner and lo and behold she said to me, “Eddie, turn the fire down on that pan!”  I immediately jumped on it and said, “you did it, you say fire to for the stove too”, it was an electric cooktop BTW.  We both laughed! I guess I was so used to hearing she and other family members use this terminology that it didn’t click that grandma was also referring to her stove when she said fire.

 

Eddie

 

[chachp]

 

<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Stove for us.  That's what our family has always called it.</span>

 

[ozzie908]

UK we call them Cookers

Gas Cooker electric Cooker but a Range is more of a built in solid fuel type cooker like an AGA or Rayburn both of which can be gas fired, solid and electric as well as oil, Primarily in the country they are oil or solid fuel because there is no gas and power outages are common, So a heat source as well as cooker/stove is very useful in winter.

We have all types of Hobs but I have noticed a decline in Gas ovens seems they are being replaced by plug in ovens and all our ovens of the single variety have a grill/broiler in the oven at the top.

So sorry to have wandered off the beaten track but yes we call them Cookers.

Austin

 

[iheartmaytag]

Kansan here:

We call it a stove regardless of the cooking fuel. If we want to differentiate between there is a "kitchen stove" Or a "cook stove" and a "Heating stove" if the house is so equipped.

Since we have always had mostly electric we would say. "I left the stove on."

 

[appnut]

Stove.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Electric range, gas stove.

 

[parunner58]

Stove here.

Harley:

I have an aunt from Kansas, when we went grocery shopping everything was put in a grocery sack, In Pennsylvania we called it grocery bag.

Peter:

My Dad was from Maine, one time my sisters were on vacation with our parents in North Berwick Maine. My aunt's father had a corner store across from my aunts house. She told my sisters to go over and get some " Tonic " to have with their lunch. We did not know they referred to soda as tonic there.

 

[petek]

My folks were English immigrants and when I was a kid they referred to an electric room heater down in the rek room as the fire or the electric fire and our vacuum as Hoover even though it was a Kenmore, though in later years they were calling it a vacuum. I can't recall them ever calling the stove a cooker though, but it was a long time ago and they lived in Canada much longer than they had in the UK.

 

[ea56]

Hoover for a vacuum LOL Petek!

We had a neighbor from England in ‘87 to ‘89.  She used to tell us that her downstairs neighbor complained out her Hoover’n whenever she used her vacuum.  Thats the first time I ever heard that expression for vacuuming.

 

This neighbor, Allison also used to complain about all the manky lorries in the car park.  Translation the beater cars in the parking lot.  

 

Eddie

 

[kimball455]

Always called it a stove.

 

[mattl]

Stove, Range interchangeable here.

 

The one that gets me and makes no sense is calling the burner an
"eye".

 

[iej]

It’s called “a cooker” here and the heating elements are referred for as “rings”.

Stove here tends to refer to the wood burning variety, particularly the modern type. Or might refer to something you use when camping.

Range is very specifically a very large cooker of the AGA or Stanley type and their modern counterparts, which might even contain induction zones.

Also the term “cooktop” is “a hob”

And a “cooker hood” is an extractor.

 

[combo52]

I Like Electric Range, Gas Stove

Or you can put a saddle on the stove and ride the range tonight, LOL

 

John L.

 

[Ultramatic]

 

 

Stove here in NYC.

 

[wayupnorth]

Stove here, never heard soda called tonic in ME. I know midwest people called it pop.

 

[agiflow]

Stove was what we always called them.

 

[askolover]

Stove here in TN.  My grandmother always called her refrigerator the Frigidaire...even when it was a GE fridge.

 

[intuitive]

Aussie names from my youth

Cooker or Stove with hotplates, grill & oven
(if you had a separate grill compartment you were posh)
Mickywave = Microwave
Mixmaster (generic name for all food mixers)
Kitchen Wizz (Breville food processor)
Hoover (vacuum cleaner),
Ewbank (manual carpet sweeper),
Fire (room heater wood, gas or electric)
Washing powder(laundry powder)
Vim (scouring powder)
Jif (scouring liquid)
Mr Sheen (aerosol furniture polish)
Tuckerbox (chest freezer)