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Thread Number: 87233
/ Tag: Ranges, Stoves, Ovens
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Post# 1118131 5/24/2021 at 09:43 (1,068 days old) by petek  (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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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 .
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Post# 1118132 , Reply# 1 5/24/2021 at 10:06 (1,068 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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 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.
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Post# 1118133 , Reply# 2 5/24/2021 at 10:09 (1,068 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
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Post# 1118134 , Reply# 3 5/24/2021 at 10:13 (1,068 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK) |
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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 | ||
| Post# 1118135 , Reply# 4 5/24/2021 at 10:30 (1,068 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
Kansan here: | ||
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Post# 1118136 , Reply# 5 5/24/2021 at 10:38 (1,068 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 1118137 , Reply# 6 5/24/2021 at 10:38 (1,068 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Electric range, gas stove. | ||
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Post# 1118141 , Reply# 7 5/24/2021 at 10:54 (1,068 days old) by parunner58 (Davenport, FL) |
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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. | ||
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Post# 1118189 , Reply# 8 5/24/2021 at 16:30 (1,068 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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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.
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Post# 1118196 , Reply# 9 5/24/2021 at 17:40 (1,067 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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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.
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Post# 1118198 , Reply# 10 5/24/2021 at 17:53 (1,067 days old) by kimball455 (Cape May, NJ) |
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Post# 1118205 , Reply# 11 5/24/2021 at 19:17 (1,067 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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Stove, Range interchangeable here.
The one that gets me and makes no sense is calling the burner an | ||
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Post# 1118222 , Reply# 13 5/24/2021 at 21:27 (1,067 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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I Like Electric Range, Gas Stove | ||
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Post# 1118224 , Reply# 14 5/24/2021 at 22:06 (1,067 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Post# 1118226 , Reply# 15 5/24/2021 at 22:27 (1,067 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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| Post# 1118228 , Reply# 16 5/24/2021 at 23:06 (1,067 days old) by agiflow () | ||
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Stove was what we always called them. | ||
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Post# 1118235 , Reply# 17 5/25/2021 at 01:01 (1,067 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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Post# 1118250 , Reply# 20 5/25/2021 at 07:47 (1,067 days old) by Logixx (Germany) |
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| Post# 1118264 , Reply# 24 5/25/2021 at 09:52 (1,067 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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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. | ||
| Post# 1118270 , Reply# 26 5/25/2021 at 10:40 (1,067 days old) by iej (.... ) | ||
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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! | ||
| Post# 1118275 , Reply# 27 5/25/2021 at 11:12 (1,067 days old) by Rolls_rapide (.) | ||
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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. | ||
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Post# 1118292 , Reply# 28 5/25/2021 at 14:11 (1,067 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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| Post# 1118363 , Reply# 29 5/26/2021 at 04:48 (1,066 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
 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".
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Post# 1118490 , Reply# 31 5/27/2021 at 14:56 (1,065 days old) by hobbyapocalypse (Northeast Pennsylvania) |
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| Post# 1118807 , Reply# 32 5/30/2021 at 17:47 (1,061 days old) by iej (.... ) | ||
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@Tolivac A weed-whacker, weed eater is just called a 'Strimmer' here which came from 'string trimmer'. | ||
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Post# 1118815 , Reply# 33 5/30/2021 at 19:13 (1,061 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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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...
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Post# 1121648 , Reply# 35 6/28/2021 at 18:51 (1,032 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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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.
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Post# 1121768 , Reply# 36 6/29/2021 at 15:08 (1,032 days old) by joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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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." This post was last edited 06/29/2021 at 18:55 | ||
| Post# 1121908 , Reply# 37 6/30/2021 at 15:26 (1,031 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) | ||
 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"
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Post# 1121982 , Reply# 38 7/1/2021 at 05:25 (1,030 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 1122009 , Reply# 39 7/1/2021 at 09:29 (1,030 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Post# 1122034 , Reply# 40 7/1/2021 at 15:07 (1,030 days old) by mrsalvo (New Braunfels Texas) |
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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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Post# 1122035 , Reply# 41 7/1/2021 at 15:11 (1,030 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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"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. CLICK HERE TO GO TO chestermikeuk's LINK | ||
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