Sentence examples for stove rather from inspiring English sources

Delight turned to shock, however, when the fowl was found boiling on the stove, rather than roasting in the oven.

Here hundreds of books have been sun-bleached to pastels, and a wood stove rather than a television, holds the room's most prominent spot.

Because the fire burns at the top of the stove, rather than rising up from a bed of coals at the bottom, its flames are easily stifled when new fuel is added, turning the stove into a smoke bomb.

So when he left the chicken parts cooking on the stove rather than moving them to the oven, it was because, he said, "slow sautéing is like slow roasting: you'll get less shrinkage, lose less moisture".

His research is behind many of those eat-less tips that are so simple you could easily dismiss them as too obvious: you'll have a smaller dinner if it's served from the stove rather than at the table; if you use smaller plates you'll eat less but feel just as full.

For cooking on the march, Amundsen chose the Swedish Primus stove rather than the special cooker devised by Nansen, because he felt the latter took up too much space.

Last year, when the price of cooking gas spiked, those who could afford it bought electrical cookers and stoves rather than the more common gas ones.

Mine, which had seemed Shaker-simple by day, with its painted floors, spartan dresser, small wood-burning stove and rather stiff settee, took on a warm glow by candlelight: the comfortable queen-sized brass bed was piled high with warm quilts and cotton blankets, and thanks to the brisk salt air and other sensory overload, I was so exhausted I fell sound asleep almost instantly.

They tend to use stove tops rather than microwaves for cooking meals and fresh ingredients to prepared foods.

The latter at a Thanksgiving family dinner, as she slaved not over a hot stove, but rather over a hot accordion: Playing tunes to the family.

The program will sensibly not use the money to buy and ship stoves but, rather, to create small manufacturing companies close to the target populations — creating new jobs in the process.