hob
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Don't forget fruit and vegetables - the latter can be cooked with a steamer on one hob, rather than using different ones.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2025
Food residue that is stuck on the hob will start to burn as soon as the hob is turned on.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
Even food residue that collects in the oven or on the hob generates fine particles when burned.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
One trick I have found is cooking hard boiled eggs off in the saucepan of my steamer set whilst steaming veg, gas hob cooking.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2022
Didn’t seem to matter—once more she took me by the hand, and this time led me to a small parlor where she had a fire going, and a kettle on the hob.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M.,
From Time Magazine Archive
For perhaps 5,500 years man has started off with molten metal, which he has then cast, forged, rolled, extruded, hammered, machined, hobbed, drilled, milled and ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except for the tramp of a sentry's hobbed boots over the sidewalks and the challenging call of another sentry round the corner the town was as silent as a town of tombs.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
During the dinner the chairman did his best to make himself pleasant, and hobbed and nobbed unreservedly with his immediate neighbours....
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
In the scullery, at the end further from the main building, was a small hobbed grate.
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming
However, a worry for Ulster was the sight of Williams hobbing off.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2013
And it's all very well for Larry Twentyman to be hobbing and nobbing with the likes of them Botseys.
From The American Senator by Anthony Trollope
But she soon found a cure for his passion, By hobbing or nobbing at dinner, With Paris, a Trojan of fashion.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827 by Various
They include office buildings, workshops for hobbing, heat-treating, grinding and polishing cog-wheels and the complete gear transmissions.
From Zeppelin The Story of a Great Achievement by Harry Vissering
Every pitch requires a different tool, and the cutting end is given the curved form by milling or hobbing.
From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Franklin D. Jones
