Search Details

Word: stovetop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...innovation of electricity brought the electric waffle iron, which was far less cumbersome and hazardous than a stovetop griddle. But for the harried homemaker, the newfangled appliance still wasn't easy enough. Enter the Dorsa brothers, Frank, Tony and Sam, who in the mid-1930s created a dry waffle batter that only needed one ingredient: milk. When demand spread beyond their hometown of San Jose, Calif., Frank invented a carousel-like contraption that could churn out thousands of waffles in an hour, which could then be frozen and shipped. Kellogg bought the company in 1970 and introduced the catchy slogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waffles | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...stupid question about if she was up at a bed and breakfast in Vermont or whatever over the weekend, but I don’t. She shows me how to make coffee, looking at the impressive array of crushed plastic gin bottles and beer cans on the counter and stovetop. “I don’t know what to do with this house, you know, it’s not really mine, and I imagine Andrew’s father will just sell it once everything gets cleared up. I should tell him, Andrew I mean...

Author: By David L Rice, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FICTION: Dawson's Creaak | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...pastries (fruit turnovers, anyone?) in a jiffy. The heat-guard handle - though not what one would expect from the Devil himself - is safe for kids, who will get a kick out of the device's signature design feature - a pair of horns. iwantoneofthose.com Get a grip Avoid a stovetop traffic jam even if all burners are firing by snapping off the detachable handles of Woll's new cookware line.The handles make it easier and safer to transfer pots into and out of the oven, too. directcookware.com grate idea Escape the perils of finger-hungry graters. Standing on four short legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Cooking | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

...keen that the food industry is racing to catch the microwave. Packaged products primarily designed to be hyperheated in these kitchen reactors have exploded into a more than $2 billion-a-year industry. To distinguish old-line cooking from microwave preparation, food-marketing experts are actually beginning to use "stovetop" as a verb (as in "Most Americans still stovetop dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: A Requiem for Grilled Cheese | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

| 1 |