stove vs oven

2014-06-28


 oven  爐  有門  可以把食物放進去煮熟
           例如  烤箱  microwave oven

stove  靠別的東西加熱  或 在上方可以烤食物
          例如  火爐,暖爐 小爐子,爐灶  窯;烘房

Oven

The definition of oven from the Merriam Webster dictionary is "a chamber used for baking, heating, or drying." Based on the word chamber, it is safe to assume that an oven is something like a room (as-in bed chamber), which would have a door. We know that when it comes to baking, a door is involved to retain the heat in the chamber. An oven, therefore, is the place where you open a door to place a food item on a rack to surround it with heat. An oven may also include a microwave oven or a countertop toaster oven.

Stove

Pulling again from the Merriam Webster dictionary, the definition of stove is "a portable or fixed apparatus that burns fuel or uses electricity to provide heat (as for cooking or heating)." That definition would indicate that the whole kitchen appliance, from the burners on the top to the broiler on the bottom, is a stove. Not to complicate things, but for the people who use the term range,Merriam Webster's dictionary defines that as "a cooking stove that has an oven and a flat top with burners or heating elements." So a range and a stove are the same thing.

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