ahoj, brit-speakers

[fox]

cooker.

does it include what we here in the states would call an oven (for baking), or is it only the part we call the stove (or stovetop)?

Comments

[thermidor.livejournal.com]

my brief impression was that cooker was equivalent to oven while "hob" was Britspeak for stovetop.

I could be completely wrong though...

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i was pretty sure the cooker was the stovetop when i was in edinburgh; isn't a hob just a burner?

(and what's the difference between a stove[top] and a range?)

[datlowen.livejournal.com]

I think a "range" is a stovetop/oven combo. But I could well be wrong.

[thalia]

I think "range" is a stove/oven combo, and a "stove" is, well, the stove part of it. We have the stove portion on an island, and I can tell you that that's called a cooktop, since I've been looking at new ones for several months. In the stores, if you say stove, they assume you mean a stove/oven combo unit.