I put the cooker on the gas and took it off gas after it blew vissle.

[jutfrank]

Those fast-boiling ones are certainly keen to let you know when they're done.

Unfortunately, mine doesn't show the characteristic English restraint that GoesStation mentions. If ever I absent-mindedly manage to leave the lid up, it scares the living cr*p out of me. Perhaps it was designed by an American.

[Charlie Bernstein]

Those fast-boiling ones are certainly keen to let you know when they're done.

Unfortunately, mine doesn't show the characteristic English restraint that GoesStation mentions. If ever I absent-mindedly manage to leave the lid up, it scares the living cr*p out of me. Perhaps it was designed by an American.

No doubt!

But here we like to think that the British put the kettle on the hob.

Another bubble burst.

[jutfrank]

But here we like to think that the British put the kettle on the hob.

Oh, um, yes, of course we do. And we only ever use a teapot, covered with a knitted cosy featuring a likeness of Her Maj.

[emsr2d2]

And we drink the tea out of dainty china cups, with our little finger raised, of course.

[GoesStation]

And we drink the tea out of dainty china cups, with our little finger raised, of course.

Except with breakfast, of course, when you use breakfast tea mugs.

[emsr2d2]

Or tea bowls, as we discovered in a previous thread!

[tufguy]

Tufguy, did you actually read post #2? If so, why have you used the three original words instead of the correct ones tedmc gave you?

Beacause I was talking about the cooker.

[tufguy]

Also, remember that in some countries, having a kettle that goes on the stove is very outdated. Almost all UK households have an electric kettle, and they don't whistle.

What do you call this?

https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=...8Q8w56BQgBELwC

Is it a cooker?

[tufguy]

Here's what you need to know:

1. Cookers don't whistle. Kettles whistle.

2. Cooker is another uncommon word, except when people talk about slow cookers, which are electric pots used for cooking things overnight. Otherwise, cooker is not natural.

3. Kettles don't blow whistles. Kettles' whistles blow.

4. Gas is wrong. You can say stove or burner. Sometimes people say gas ring, but I don't hear it often.

I put the kettle on the burner and took it off the burner after it (what should I be writing here?).

Kettles don't blow whistles. Kettles' whistles blow. I don't understand at all. Should I be saying I took it off the burner after it whistle blew?

[GoesStation]

What do you call this?

https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=...8Q8w56BQgBELwC

Is it a cooker?

No. It's a pressure cooker. Without both words, I understood it to mean "stove" in some dialect of English.