On 2013-09-03 18:22:50 +0100, Nick Maclaren said:

In article ,
sacha wrote:
On 2013-09-03 16:13:38 +0000, Gary Woods said:

BTW, I can tomatoes using a pressure canner (5 pounds/15 minutes), not for
safety reasons, but because it takes a LOT less electrical energy to do
than heating a big pot of water. Not to mention how long it takes to boil
a big pot of water on one of those pretty "glass top"
stove....erm...cookers.

My grandmother (English, Co. Durham origin) used to talk of a stove,
not a cooker. It was a gas stove, not (to her) a gas cooker. Was that
unusual in UK 60 or so years ago? I really don't know.

No. I always knew of them as stoves, and came from a different
background.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

According to Wiki, a 'stove' was an enclosed space that was heated to
cook food, or a single heated room. Speaking only for myself, I might
still speak of a 'gas stove' but not an electric one, a wood burner on
which you can cook, or an Aga. So for me, it's clearly connected with
my grandmother's use of the word. Bit like the 'black stump' and
'bull's noon'. ;-)
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Sacha
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