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Do you have a gas stove or an electric range in your house or apartment? Why is a stove sometimes called a range?
Despite the difference in the wording, I have never heard a kitchen range hood being called a kitchen stove hood.
I think it all has to do with marketing and nothing else. Back when I was young, I heard advertisers call the kitchen stove an electric range and I could never figure out why. Could it be that advertisers and retailers wanted to make sure consumers knew what they were getting?
Shopping for Kitchen Stoves
Although I'm not shopping for a kitchen stove, electric range or whatever else you want to call it (right now), I decided to do some searching to see what the online retailers call them. We have an "electric range" in our house here in the Philippines and we'll be getting a "gas stove" for our dirty kitchen when the dirty kitchen is completed.
When I searched for "stoves", I was presented with results for wood burning stoves, fireplaces and other heating items. When I searched for "ranges", I was presented with what I was looking for. I can tell you right now that I won't be installing a wood burning stove anytime in my lifetime (unless we suddenly live in a post apocalyptic society without electricity or natural gas).
It appears that manufacturers want to steer people to using "range" versus "stove" for the kitchen appliance I know only as a kitchen stove. I still can't figure out why. Is it because they want to sell more range hoods?
Range Hoods
Although they've been around for years, range hoods are still relatively new in the grand scheme of things. When turned on, they're supposed to suck the heat and smoke produced when cooking on a kitchen stove, pushing it into the air outside the home.
The home my parents (now minus my father) have owned for more than 40 years has always had a gas stove and has never had a range hood of any kind. Somehow, the fumes from cooking still manage to find the way out of the house without being sucked out by some device.
My mother-in-law's home has a fan built into the kitchen wall that blows outwards instead of inwards. In essence, it sucks heat and fumes just like a range hood would and probably does a better job of it. Of course, the outside screen covering the unit has to be cleaned periodically. Removing the screen completely isn't an option — every tropical insect in the world would find its way into her home if it wasn't there.
Is a range hood even necessary? I suppose it all depends on how much natural ventilation you have in your home. I have one above my electric stove because my wife wanted one, but I don't see it as a necessity. While she's been away, I rarely use it.
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Really I am confused with the words
Kitchen stove is very popular and we are using in our kitchen also…
Bur kitchen range I am hearing from this article only.
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But I still prefer stove over range, Why? Because stoves are hot while ranges heat.
Before we bought our kitchen stove must first consider how the capacity of our electrical plug, so as not to regret later
Hey y'all over here in the UK it's called a 'hob', just to confuse everybody more!
So "hobknobbing with the big dogs" would mean associating with important people in the US, while in the UK it would be like turning the knobs on the stove? :-)
With some big dogs around, or course.
Having hoods are nice but I don't really see the point in a residential circumstance. They're nice in restaurant kitchens because they keep all the steam and heat out of your face but I had one in my house and I never used it because it wasn't really big enough to do much.