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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 originonce meant a heated room, not the appliance
left-on panicchecking it twice is a documented anxiety habit
open flamenatural gas burns near 1,960 degrees Celsius
benjamin franklininvented an efficient iron stove, refused to patent it