Talk:Kitchen stove

message: In cooking, a cooker is an appliance designed for the purpose of cooking food[citation needed].[]
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.75.48.150 (talk • contribs) 17:23, 14 September 2007
: This would have been more amusing if said tag hadn't been the last thing added to the article. Sigh. Chris Cunningham 12:02, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  You know you're reading Wikipedia when... 

message: Here are the basics of the discussion to merge, split and edit the various stove articles and component parts therein:
* Merge the culinary information into a single article titled either Cook stove or Kitchen stove;
* Split out the heating device as Heating stove;
* Move the Stove article information about the industrial device that is left to the Industrial stove.
What will need to be done after the proposal (if successful):
* Create a Stove (disambiguation) page;
* Fix all of the redirects, including Cooktop, Range and Wood-burning stove;
* Clean-up all of the articles as needed (I think that job will be a doozy...).
I hope this properly summarizes what this discussion is about - Jeremy (Jerem43 08:01, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah this is ambitious Jeremy, I think this looks good though as I was getting confused myself.  I'm proposing a similar thing with Oven and the multitude of smaller oven articles, but it isn't as messy as this.  Good luck, let me know if I can help.--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 08:06, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Except for that stove/cook top+oven combination thing found in many kitchens. (Based on the images included in the articles I believe this is covered at both Stove and Cooker. Once again, a summary style article could easily deal with this.)  Ewlyahoocom 16:28, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are partly correct, but clay ovens, stone ovens, adobe ovens, etc. do not fit into the stove category at all which are covered in Oven.  In modernity the oven is "often" part of a stove, but only in modern western designs.--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC 16:55, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Summary of proposals

message: I have made some changes to the summaries of stove and cooker in the hopes of clarifying the above discussion (complicated a bit by the change of cookstove to Biomass Cook Stove, that's what I get for making a suggestion someone then implements). As I read the articles I could see the logical reasoning behind having two separate articles (even though they are related). 
So I tried to reflect that in both articles in the simplest way possible with stove left as it is (mainly about heating) and cooker showing the evolution from stoves that replaced open fires for heating and cooking, to the stand alone appliance that developed after the use of stoves as heat source became displaced by central heating. 
Any stove linked article or redirect that used stove solely in reference to cooking I changed to cooker. Even though I'm used to the American usage of stove vs it seems to make sense to keep to the distinction so the usage isn't American centric. Awotter (talk) 04:22, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article changes related to Stove/Cooker/Cookstove 

message: I don't see any mention of electric stoves at all. 198.151.130.33 (talk) 16:42, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Um, no electric stoves? 

message: There are a few arguments for each listed in the article, just wondering if there should be a bigger section on the advantages and disadvantages of each? The reason I prefer gas is so you have a backup if you can't use the stove. If you have a gas stove and run out of gas, you'll still have a microwave, a slow-cooker, a pressure-cooker, a grill and various other electric appliances you can use for backup, whereas if you have an electric stove and the power goes out, you're less likely to have a backup cooking device, maybe a gas barbecue or a camp cooker if you're lucky.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.198.96.86 (talk) 14:47, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Gas vs Electric

message: I guess that technically a cooker is device that cooks, but this is a word entirely alien from my dialect (traveled Midwestern American). I've heard of Solar cookers and rice cookers, but that's it. it seems strange to be told this is an American word, because it simply isn't. The only person who I've ever heard try to call a stove/range/whatever was a foreign exchange student.
Is there a convincing source for using the word cooker? Just because it's in a dictionary doesn't mean it should be mentioned prominently.
It makes sense to present the word cooker as a constructed class of objects that cook for purposes of Wikipedia hierarchies if it's meant to be, but again, the word cooker not prefaced by another word is alien to my dialect and it seems to me there should be a source to convince me this is not written by a non-English speaker.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.137.180.48 (talk) 05:13, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: My husband is from Ireland and he uses "cooker" to mean a stove.  I don't like "range" either, I think the article should stay with "stove" and resist the temptation to get all fancy.  Rissa, copy editor (talk) 04:01, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The word cooker is bizarre 

message: >The modern kitchen range was invented by Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford in the 1790s. As an active scientist and prolific inventor, he put the study of heat onto a scientific basis and developed improvements for chimneys, fireplaces and industrial furnaces, which led to his invention of the kitchen range.
This article was linking to itself so I "unlinked" it. Rissa, copy editor (talk) 04:18, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unlinking 

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