Most households in America are equipped with house appliances like a refrigerator, microwave, a dishwasher, etc. However, one of the most important appliances in the kitchen is a device used for cooking food. This unit is often called a stove, a range or an oven. These three words are often used to refer to the same object even though they actually denote different appliances. The word stove is usually used to talk about the area where the burners are.
There's a different term for that! Of course, that doesn't stop some people from referring to the whole shebang as an oven. On the whole, "oven" is probably the most commonly used term to describe a kitchen cooking appliance, which is why it's the one we use to describe the category.
A "stove" is technically any enclosed space that uses fuel to provide heat. Sounds a lot like an oven, right? Well, yes and no. There are many kinds of stoves that provide heat but don't cook food or only do so incidentally.
Coal stoves, wood-burning stoves, and pellet stoves are all examples of this variety. In fact, you could look at ovens as a subset of stoves; all ovens are stoves, but not all stoves are ovens. But there's another wrinkle: Stoves often include what's called a stovetop.
Wood-burning cookstoves use the radiant heat from the internal wood fire to heat a griddle. More modern stoves have gas or electric burners. Stovetops can be separated from the stove and exist on their own. In this configuration, they're properly called "cooktops. Yeah, the one you use to cook food. What do you call that thing?
Chances are, it's either an "oven," a "stove," or a "range. What's the source of this confusion? Need help finding products? Sign up for our weekly newsletter. Much of it probably has to do with upbringing and tradition, but there are other factors at play.
As home cooking has evolved, the terms we use to describe our cooking appliances have also changed, and the appliances themselves have diversified. But when you boil it down, there are real, definable differences between these three terms. So let's clear up this confusion once and for all. Let's get the simplest definition out of the way first: An oven is simply a box that's used to heat or cook food.
Stove and oven are interchangeable and both are used a lot. Used in a sentence like "I just put a turkey in the oven an hour ago.
Susan Y Senior Member Australia. Argyle said:. This term would not apply well to induction "burners", since they don't provide direct heat 3. Typically, there will be one of the following combinations: four electric coil burners, four or five open gas burners, four or five sealed gas burners, four or five glass-ceramic areas with gas burners underneath each, four or five wood burners especially on old or old-fashioned cast iron stoves , or four or five induction cooking zones.
The appliance may include a cooking surface, such as a cooktop. Last edited: May 6, Jadzeamay New Member American English. Here in the US a true Cooktop, which I have, is just that. It's a built in cooking surface which can have as many as 6 different burners.
It's not free standing like a range and has wall ovens rather than a built in oven. It can as mine does, have an area with a slide out shelf for pots and pans.
You little ripper! Senior Member Australia. I have one that is separate from the stove. The few times I did hear it, it came with an English accent. Last edited: Dec 26, AzizaCloud said:. Dunno Senior Member Slovak. What about the word hotplate? Ponyprof Senior Member Canadian English.
Dunno said:. These are a hot plate and a two-burner hot plate in North? American English. In AE, a cooker tends to be a stand-alone unit, such as. California; Princeton, NJ. In AE, a cooker tends to be a stand-alone unit, such as View attachment Ponyprof said:. A hotplate is a small cheap portable device with just one or two burners.
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