A modern gas or electric cooker (stove in American English) usually has three parts: the oven, the grill (broiler in American English) and the burners or hotplates on top.
The oven is used for baking bread and cakes, and for roasting a large piece of meat.The grill is an apparatus for cooking by direct heat and can be used, for example, for grilling (broiling in Am. English) meat or toasting bread (making it hard and brown).
The gas burners or electric hotplates can be used for boiling food in a pot with water, for stewing food (= cooking food slowly in liquid to make a stew) or for frying (= cooking food in hot fat or oil). Simmering is very gentle slow boiling. Steaming is cooking food in water but in an inner container so that the water does not directly touch the food. Braising, used usually of meat, means means cooking slowly in a covered pot with a little fat and water.
The gas burners or electric hotplates can be used for boiling food in a pot with water, for stewing food (= cooking food slowly in liquid to make a stew) or for frying (= cooking food in hot fat or oil). Simmering is very gentle slow boiling. Steaming is cooking food in water but in an inner container so that the water does not directly touch the food. Braising, used usually of meat, means means cooking slowly in a covered pot with a little fat and water.
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