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Name for heating element - for native US/UK speakers
What do you call, in your respective country, one of the flat round heating elements that you see on the electric range in the picture below?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_stove#/media/File:Electric_stove.jpg
Thanks for your help!
Sep 1, 2018 11:39 AM
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Bill is right, although my mother still called them burners.
September 1, 2018
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We call them Hot Plates
September 1, 2018
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Hi! I call them burners. "Watch out, the oven is on and the burners are hot!"
September 1, 2018
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September 1, 2018
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I'm a US native speaker. I would describe it this way: "This is an electric stove with four burners. The part of the burner that gets hot is the heating element. The stove is designed so that you can remove the heating element easily to clean underneath it."
A brand name for a common kind of heating element is "Calrod" and I have sometimes heard heating elements referred to as "calrods."
To me, a "hotplate" is a small portable electric device with either one or two burners. For example, "Because of safety issues, hotplates are strictly forbidden in the student dormitory."
September 1, 2018
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