What do you call it ?

[iej]

Ireland and the UK:

Hob = cooktop / cooking surface. Doesn’t matter if it’s just a hob on its own or a component of a cooker (stove) or what type of heat source it uses. If you can heat a pot or a pan on it, it’s a hob.

Cooker = stand-alone appliance combining ovens and hob of any type.

Cooker is also often used inaccurately and generically to refer to any large cooking appliance too. You might get someone referring to a built-in hob or an oven as “a cooker.”

Sometimes a range might even get called a cooker.

For a bit of entertainment, here’s a selection of 1980s “cookers”, with their own electropop theme from ESB (now Electric Ireland) for their Cook Electric campaign:

 

[hobbyapocalypse]

Ours is electric and we call it a STOVE, and each burner on top is what we call a JET.

 

[iej]

@tolivac

A weed-whacker, weed eater is just called a 'Strimmer' here which came from 'string trimmer'.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I don't think there's anything wrong with calling a burner an Eye, at least on an electric range or STOVE, it would make sense, as for a freezer---a stand-alone or free-standing, it is always going to be called a deep freeze, regardless of brand (it was originally termed that by Amana and as a chest freezer) and even if it as in commonly referred to as a chest freezer, is even given to an upright...

-- Dave

 

[louvac]

"Light the Oven"

Growing up here in New England, we always called it a stove. "Range" was considered the more "modern" American term. We had a Roper 36" stove with the center rotisserie/grill. Inside were two pilot (gas) lights that always kept the center of the stove warm--great for warming food for lunch on the weekends or whenever you wanted to warm something up. It was also great for drying Mixer beaters so they wouldn't rust or anything that you wanted to be thoroughly dried. We also had to literally "Light" the oven by lighting a match and inserting into the hole while turning the gas on. It would be beat any stove made today, hands down!

By the way, we also called the fridge, the icebox and I still call it that today mostly when around family.

 

[wayupnorth]

Light the oven

Many homes around here had gas stoves as a kid, many also with kerosene heaters on the opposite side. The CP stoves had pilots for every burner, including oven. My mother and everyone else in my neighborhood would stick a lit match in a hole. Anything to be lit manually, legally can not be hooked to gas service in this state now.

 

[joeekaitis]

 

The Altar of The Sacred Fires where we temper The Wheel of Sustenance for consumption by mortals.

 

Translation: "The oven in the Hotpoint where we bake up the Mama Cozzi's frozen pizza from ALDI."

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[twintubdexter]

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #339966;">Stove...but I like Judy Holliday's recalling of a TV commercial she once did as her "acting experience" in the classic film "The Solid Gold Cadillac" using a sultry voice..."try this new International Projects gas range with the ever-lovin oven"</span>

 

[foraloysius]

In Dutch a stove is called "fornuis", so close to the english word furnace.

 

[petek]

Well so far it seems that most people in Cda and the USA call the thing a "stove".

 

[mrsalvo]

Agree with Askolover, 

 

Always called a stove. Refrigerator always called "the Frigidaire," no matter the make. Washers were often called "the Maytag."

 

Barry

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[chestermikeuk]

"Your Dinners On The Stove"

Depending on where you live in the UK the cooker , hob , oven, range can still be called a "Stove" as generic as "Hoovering the carpet" . I live round the corner from the "Stoves" company who have been building stoves since the 1920`s .

If your a scouser yall be calling it a stove, the company is nicknamed "Stovies" and you will be taking your dirty laundry "Down The Bagwash" meaning one will be attending the launderette !!

Stoves had been a strong presence in the UK with many firsts, such as the gas fanned oven called the Rotostar which had a spinning gas jet to heat the oven . In early 2000 they branched out into "Range Cookers" which is what is
so familiar in many a modern kitchen if one doesnt have a built in or built under combination.

Heres the link to "Stoves" The Company heritage & products and a pic many of you will have seen one of the first Stoves Range Cookers shown in many of my kitchen shots with washers.

https://www.stoves.co.uk/en-gb/our-heritage

 

[iej]

My grandmother tended to call hobs or cooktops "the gas"

"I'll put it on the gas"
"It's on the gas"
"Turn down the gas"

She did this despite having exclusively used electric cookers since the 1980s and had various hallogen and induction hobs.