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)?

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[ex-ajhalluk585.livejournal.com]

and often a grill *above* the rings, at eye level (though this is dying out, it would certainly have been true ten plus years ago - I don't think I've ever seen this configuration on a US cooking device).

As Flanders and Swann pointed out, the eye-level grill was for convenience, so that without one having to bend down the hot fat could squirt straight into your eye.

The cooker is the whole thing, but are your people rather wealthy and do they live in the country? If so, give them an Aga. So far as I can tell from those who own them the things are piglets to manage and terrible to cook on, but oh! the social cachet!

Also, is it gas or electric? Very hard to get gas in modern flats (curtheth!) but a gas cooker is incomparable to cook on (as in the phrase "Now we're cooking with gas" to denote things going right after a period of frustration, misunderstanding or difficulty).

[zoethe.livejournal.com]

Hoorah for the Aga! I've never seen one, but I adore the idea - how silly is that.

[still living with the dream of getting to Eurp someday...]