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a controlled house fire we trust enough to cook breakfast on
means A heated appliance, often enclosed, used for cooking food or warming a room.
from From Old English 'stofa,' meaning a heated room or bathhouse — a place you went to get warm. It's a cousin of German 'Stube' (a heated living room) and likely connects to a broader Germanic family of words for warm, enclosed spaces. Over time the meaning shrank from the whole hot room down to the single hot box at its heart.
- word origin
- once meant a heated room, not the appliance
- left-on panic
- checking it twice is a documented anxiety habit
- open flame
- natural gas burns near 1,960 degrees Celsius
- benjamin franklin
- invented an efficient iron stove, refused to patent it
aga cooker — british heat storage stove first made in 1922, still manufactured and used in thousands of uk homes
potbelly stove — cast iron wood-burning stove iconic to american frontier cabins and saloons from the 1800s onward
tandoor — traditional cylindrical clay oven used across india, pakistan, and central asia for baking naan and cooking meat