What do Americans call an oven?

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Please settle a dispute in our house!

Do Americans tend to use the word "oven" in the same way as the Brits? i.e the things that heat up and you slide your food in to roast or bake....and if you can win the Great British BakeOff 2021 even if you forgot to turn yours on?!

I think they must be called ovens because I use American recipes and they say "preheat the oven" like ours do (but they use Fahrenheit, right?) But my sister (who is far superior to me ) insists that what we know as "ovens" are called ranges in the USA ?

I know the word 'range' ....but to me it means the huge Aga type things. But then what is a range to the Americans? Or a stovetop to the Americans? Is that the four horizontal rings that can be gas, electric or hob?

Am so confused I am now self doubting my knowledge of what a bloody oven is.

The part you use to roast a turkey or bake a cake is called an Oven.

The part where you might boil a pot can be a stove, stovetop or a range.

Sometimes the words stove or range refer to the entire unit if the baking part and the burners are all one appliance.

It looks like range refers to the whole unit

www.bestbuy.com/site/home-appliances/ranges-ovens-stoves/abcat0904000.c?id=abcat0904000&intl=nosplash

I’m American and it’s just an oven. Some people buy a “range top”, which is just the top, set into a counter kind of, and the oven is separate. Most of us just call the whole thing “our oven” and the top is usually our “stove”, or “stove top”. I’d like to copy a picture of a kitchen with just a range top and a separate oven, but don’t know if I can copy and paste it. You can google range top and see them, with views of kitchens showing the separate ovens. external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.NjQzltIqfPUuEiOEKdN4JgHaE7%26pid%3DApi&f=1

I live in the US and at least where I am the whole thing is the range, which encompasses an oven (what you use when you roast meats), the broiler in the oven (the British grill function), and stovetop (the hobs).

I am in the US and my DH pisses himself laughing when I say cooker. Does no one say that anymore?

I also think of a "range" as the whole unit or we sometimes refer to it as the "stove." But the oven is definitely the baking/roasting part. I've never got used to the word " broiler," because to my British ears, it sounds as if it's going to burn everything to a crisp. "Grill" sounds better to me.

I've never heard anyone use "cooker" here, although I grew up with it in the UK.

I'd forgotten about the hob, I haven't said it for so long! Stovetop is the norm in the US.

Same as Canada.

Stovetop is hob
Oven is oven
Range is the whole thing also called stove

Far more North Americans use an all in one stove or range instead of separate oven and hob.

Of your hob and oven are attached together (hob on top) then it is often called a range

A wall oven is an oven

A hob is a cooktop, range top

A grill is a broiler

You dont fry you saute

You dont bbq you grill

You dont smoke (food) you bbq

I could keep going …

You are correct. Your superior sister is wrong.
An oven (whether built-in or a part of a free-standing unit) has a door and it is preheated and food is placed in and baked.
Some ovens have a grill function where only the top heating unit is heated and the food is placed in an open pan directly underneath the heat (3-4 inches) and is grilled or broiled. But it is still and oven.

I've only ever heard oven or stove, I've not heard range. Nobody ever says hob, my husband is American and didn't know WTF I meant by hob the first time.

It's always just ''switch on the oven'' or ''switch on the stove''. I just looked up a few random houses on Zillow and in the kitchen description bit, they all state stove.

"range" is the new fancy term that comes with new fancy prices.
they were all stoves and ovens (wall oven and cooktops should you go down that route) but now they are called range and cost an arm and a leg.

And are normal stainless steel knives and forks (cutlery) always called silverware?
Just heard it a few times on tv.

And whilst we’re at it, wtf is “flatware”?

In Canada we say cutlery. Silverware is very old fashioned. I might use it for real silver but unlikely.

Flatware is to me a pretentious way of describing cutlery. Nothing more.

Here in the US we call the oven the oven. The whole unit is called the stove, although my husband calls it the range. The top is the range top or stove top. If I was cooking something and it was in a pot boiling, I'd say, 'it's on top of the stove'.

@LoveFall

In Canada we say cutlery. Silverware is very old fashioned. I might use it for real silver but unlikely.

Flatware is to me a pretentious way of describing cutlery. Nothing more.

I've lived in the US almost 50 yrs but I grew up in England and I call it cutlery as well. My American husband thinks cutlery means just knives and he calls knives, forks, spoons, silverware.

I call it the cutlery drawer and he calls it the silverware drawer, even though it's not silver and there's a few plastic things in there.

Flatware is cutlery, and used in the UK too. If I was speaking I'd personally say cutlery, but I used to work in an auctioneers and the term would be used.
Eg a canteen of George III silver flatware.
I can't remember using the term silverware to describe just cutlery though.

Re. ovens - Mine one is a range style, but to me it's a cooker. With an oven, hob and grill. I've only known a few people with an Aga, but they'd just call them The Aga.

It's broiling that confuses me! Sounds too close to boiling...

I think there must be regional differences too. We’re on the East Coast and say silverware, although I occasionally revert to British cutlery. I’ve heard flatware too.

This must be regional. Like @Ellowyn I would call the whole thing a stove, and the actual oven bit is the oven. "It's on the stove" - "I left the stove on" etc. I thought "range" was like "hob" and UK english only, none of my US family (NY/New England) would ever say "range".

We say silverware too.

Always "broiler" and never the grill for the thing at the top of the oven. The grill is the thing outside, and never a barbecue so you'd say "let's light the grill" (this has led to a few misunderstandings with British DH over the years). Barbecue is used to talk about the type of food ie. let's order barbecue tonight.

I'm pretty old, 51, and I've never called the unit a "range" but my mother and her generation did and still do.

I just say "oven" for baking and "stovetop" to cook things on and the "grill" where other Americans would call the "broiler". But I've been known to call the entire unit the "cooker" and the "stovetop" a "hob" but it's because I'm married to an Englishman. However, I grew up with Spanish-speaking parents and I tell my family to turn on "la estufa", the Spanish word for "oven" and everyone knows what I mean.

Re: flatware

I put "flatware" in the "cutlery" drawer but "silverware" is for serving food.

I always wondered what a broiler was!

Stove?

Oven is oven, but they say stove for the whole unit rather than cooker, and stovetop rather than hob (west coast)