oven

Everyday

1. An oven is a box in the kitchen that gets very hot for baking and cooking. tree →
2. Anything very hot can be called an oven: «It's like an oven in here!» tree →

In the lessons

In maths: a place where things bake; trays per oven, baking time, temperature; batches in an oven. In everyday life and safety: baking bread and cakes, using oven gloves. In science: heat changes food, like dough rising and turning brown. In stories: the witch's oven in «Hansel and Gretel».

Examples

• The oven holds 2 trays of 12 cookies. tree →
• The cake bakes in the oven for 40 minutes. tree →
• Heat the oven to 180 degrees. tree →
• The bakery has 3 ovens. tree →
• Always use oven gloves to take out a hot tray. tree →
• Grandma bakes bread in a big brick oven. tree →
• The car was like an oven in the sun. tree →
• Ask an adult before you use the oven. tree →
• "Fetch out what there is in the oven; I'm hungry." tree →

Note

A place or tool, not a count; trays per oven and time per batch give rates. Trap: the oven temperature is not part of the count of food. 180 °C is about 350 °F; recipes in the USA use Fahrenheit. Safety: never touch the inside of a hot oven; children should cook with an adult. A microwave oven heats food in a different way.

In Jewish tradition

In maths: a place where things bake; trays per oven, baking time, temperature; batches in an oven. In everyday life and safety: baking bread and cakes, using oven gloves. In science: heat changes food, like dough rising and turning brown. In stories: the witch's oven in «Hansel and Gretel».

Examples

• And when thou bringest a meal-offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil. (Torah LEV.2.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• And every meal-offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the stewing-pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest's that offereth it. (Torah LEV.7.9, JPS 1917) tree →
• When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. (Torah LEV.26.26, JPS 1917) tree →
• Our skin is hot like an oven because of the burning heat of famine. (Writings LAM.5.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened. (Prophets HOS.7.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen, there is none among them that calleth unto Me. (Prophets HOS.7.7, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

A place or tool, not a count; trays per oven and time per batch give rates. Trap: the oven temperature is not part of the count of food. 180 °C is about 350 °F; recipes in the USA use Fahrenheit. Safety: never touch the inside of a hot oven; children should cook with an adult. A microwave oven heats food in a different way.