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 .

https://www.reviewed.com/ovens/features/oven-stove-range-whats-the-difference-anyway

 

[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.

 

[user 12105]

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)

 

[tolivac]

Skilsaw-term for a handheld circular saw-is a tradename!
Kleenex-tissues for your nose another tradename!
weedeater-term for a nylon string grass trimmer-and actual tradename.
crescent wrench-used to describe any adjustable wrench-tradename.
Bushhog-Tradename for a tractor drawn rotary brushcutter-also used as a generic name.Best to use "brushhog"

 

[logixx]

I refer to it as a range because - as stated above - that's what it's called online.

Interestingly, Miele call their, uhm, stoves the "range cooker".

 

[iej]

My elderly aunt calls all heaters “the fire”.

They would have been referring to “an electric fire” but she’ll even call a water filled radiator “the fire.”

She’ll also call all cooking surfaces “the gas” - so an induction hob is still “the gas”.

That and she has “the pipe” meaning piped television, meaning cable.

 

[iej]

A “soft drink” or is a soda here. You’ll also see then described as “minerals” on menus, a throwback to mineral water (sparkling water).

The “Mouli” is also a term you’ll find used by certain older people here in reference to *all* mixers. It’s a throwback to the Moulinex brand.

There are a few other odd ones too.

The press = the cupboard.

The hot press = the airing cupboard
(a closet that contained the water heater storage tank and was usually full of slatted shelves for keeping hot towels and a favourite place for cats to hide)

A load of bread in Ireland is “a pan” (same as french).

So a Sliced Pan is a normal sliced loaf.

 

[gizmo]

Stove in Australia.

It is changing in recent years to be called an "oven." This makes my blood boil.

 

Choice magazine - I wrote to them when they started calling them "freestanding ovens" and said that "oven" refers to the hot air cavity inside the STOVE. They replied that the industry is now calling them "ovens" and they are just reflecting that use of the word "oven."

I looked online and sure enough, the Good Guys website: Products>Cooking and Dishwashers>Ovens>Freestanding Ovens.

Appliances online: Ovens and Cooking > Freestanding Ovens.

E and S trading: Kitchen and cooking>Ovens>Freestanding ovens.

 

Philistines! No wonder I grind my teeth at night.

 

https://www.choice.com.au/home-and-living/kitchen/ovens/buying-guides/freestanding-electric-ovens
https://www.thegoodguys.com.au/cooking-and-dishwashers/ovens/freestanding-ovens
https://www.appliancesonline.com.au/category/cooking/stoves   (Though the URL calls them "stoves" the page shows "freestanding ovens.")

https://www.eands.com.au/kitchen-and-cooking/ovens/freestanding-ovens

 

[vacerator]

Some here just say

Oven. In the UK, they also say hob if it's only a cook top. In Germany, offen, hausgerate means appliance.

 

[iej]

Hob is only a “cooktop”. It always means just the cooking surface, whether part of a free standing cooker (stove) or built into a counter top, it’s a hob.

It goes back to at least as early as the 1600s and referred to a flat shelf above or beside a fireplace that was used to either keep food warm or cook it.

Old pre electric irons were also heated on a special hob.

It became the term used for the surface of a range and then continued to be used for modern cooking appliances using gas and electricity.

The term “burner” is never used in association with electric cookers. You would confuse people by using the term as it doesn’t make sense here. It’s always “ring” and that’s carried through to ceramic hobs and induction to describe zones. If you were ordering a spare part it would be a “cooker element” or “ring”

It’s also the normal phrase used in reference to gas rather than burners, you’ll hear “ring”.

The term burner is very technical here. Like you might actually order a burner as a spare part, but you’d never really refer to cooking on one. They’re often called a ring burner technically too because of their shape.

The term furnace here isn’t used either. It applies only to big industrial devices for melting metal or incinerating waste.

The device that heats a central heating system is a “boiler” (even though it doesn’t boil). So you’ll have a gas boiler, an oil fired boiler, a back boiler (in a fireplace) etc etc

A water heater can be called a water heater, the water heating, an immersion and often instantaneous water heaters are called combi boilers as they are usual a dual purpose unit that burns has to heat either radiators or hot water for taps.

The term faucet isn’t used at all. It’s always tap. Faucet doesn’t really mean anything here - I’m not aware of the term ever being used. It seems to have ended up in US English from old French. The modern french term is robinet. Faucet isn’t used.

 

[iej]

The other one you may not encounter in the US is “liquidiser” rather than “blender”. The term blender is becoming used more but both terms are used interchangeably.

There are probably plenty more too!

 

[rolls_rapide]

Reply #23

That is exactly the sort of incompetence I expect from modern day companies - frankly, it does not surprise me in the slightest.

Speaking of cookers... I was looking at Belling's range of cookers. Pretty dire styling now.

 

[joeekaitis]

 

Stove.  That is all.

 

Keep Calm

and

Set the Oven

For 350 Degrees F

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Guilty of calling it "stove" at times, but specifying if gas or electric, I use "range" most of the times.

It says in UK they call them hobs when induction? Bah. I have always seen British people referring to them as "cookers" no matter how it gets hot, it is confusing too as it sounds more like an electric pot or slow cooker.

In Italian they are either called translating litterally "stoves" or "kitchens", a cook top is a "cooking top" or "fornello-i" that translates into "burner-s".

A oven is a oven, just the heated chamber. No stoves or ranges are referred to as "ovens".