cookers

Heating appliances for food

Cookers are appliances used for cooking food, typically stoves or ranges that provide heat through gas, electricity, or other fuel sources.

The term is more common in British English, where Americans would typically say stove or range.

In informal usage, particularly in rural or Southern American contexts, cooker can refer to someone who cooks methamphetamine, or to the makeshift apparatus used in that illegal process.

methods

simmer

Cook just under boiling

  • boilHeat to bubbling point
  • braiseSear, then slow-simmer
  • stewSlow-simmered meat dish

sauté · fry · roast · bake · steam · sear · poach · blanch · pressurecook · parboil

appliances

stovetop

Burner platform for cooking

  • ovenEnclosed cooking chamber
  • rangeExtent of variation
  • microwaveRadiation-based kitchen heater

slowcooker · airfryer · steamer · fryer · roaster · hotplate · induction · convection · crockpot · multicooker

slang

chef

Professional kitchen leader

Categories
Opposites
thermal function

cookersrefrigerators

Appliances that chill food

freezers · ice boxes · coolers · chillers · fridges

Phrases
Family

uncooked, cooker, undercooked, overcooked, cooked, cookery, precooked, recooked

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G