Home electrical stoves normally have four or five places for cooking. What is the name of each one of these places where a cooking pot is placed?
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Home electrical stoves normally have four or five places for cooking. What is the name of each one of these places where a cooking pot is placed?
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It's called a stove burner or just a burner, at least in American English. Colin Fine notes that hob is more common in British English, so it may depend on where your expected audience is.
The use of "burner" dates back to when all stoves actually burned fuel like wood, coal, or gas, but the word still used for electric stoves that don't actually burn anything. Hob, on the other hand, originally meant a niche or shelf inside a fireplace where something could be kept warm.