A kitchen stove, often called simply a stove or a cooker, is a kitchen appliance designed for the purpose of cooking food. Kitchen stoves rely on the application of direct heat for the cooking process
A wood-burning iron stove
A stove at Holzwarth Ranch, Colorado
Indonesian traditional brick stove, used in some rural areas
An 18th-century Japanese merchant's kitchen with copper Kamado (Hezzui), Fukagawa Edo Museum
A gas stove is a stove that is fuelled by flammable gas such as natural gas, propane, butane, liquefied petroleum gas or syngas. Before the advent of gas, cooking stoves relied on solid fuels, such as
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Many stoves use natural gas as a heat source.
Early gas stoves produced by Windsor. From Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, 1904.
A gas stove in a San Francisco apartment, 1975.