cookware

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,647 of 15,258leans written

Cookware is pots and pans taken all together. A set of cookware, nonstick cookware, cast iron cookware.

It is uncountable, like crockery, and covers what you cook in rather than what you eat from. Cast iron is the material that outlives everything else, and a pan can be handed down through generations.

Definitions of cookware

1nouncookwarePots and pans taken all together.B2+
“The shop sells cookware such as frying pans and saucepans.”
- Said"We need new cookware; every pan we own is scratched to bits."
- WrittenCopper cookware hung from the ceiling of the shop and cost more than the ceiling.
- UsedChoose heavy cookware for even heat and light cookware for speed.
- ContrastCookware, not cutlery. Cutlery is what you eat with; cookware is the pots and pans you cook in. cutlery →
- Not thisPlates and bowls are not cookware. Cookware goes on the stove.
- SimplyThe cookware is in the box. All the things for cooking.
Patterna set of cookware · non-stick / cast-iron cookware · cookware shop

cookware is an equipment.

Remember it

COOKware → the pots you COOK in

It is cook + ware: every pot and pan you cook in, taken together.

hooks ontocook

Where it comes from

Middle English
cook
English
cook
English, today
cookware

From cook + -ware. cook comes from Middle English cook. From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). 2

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the Kitchen

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cookware in the wild

Some utensils are considered both cookware and bakeware.
Cookware and bakeware
There is a great variety of cookware and bakeware in shape, material, and inside surface.
Cookware and bakeware
Induction tops typically will not heat copper or aluminum cookware because the magnetic field cannot produce a concentrated current (see skin effect).
Induction cooking
Heavy cookware may scratch the surface if dragged across the cook top surface.
Induction cooking
Similar cookware is called a budare in Venezuela.
Comal (cookware)

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Related words

cook

Definitions of cookware

1nouncookwarePots and pans taken all together.B2+

“The shop sells cookware such as frying pans and saucepans.”

Said"We need new cookware; every pan we own is scratched to bits."
WrittenCopper cookware hung from the ceiling of the shop and cost more than the ceiling.
UsedChoose heavy cookware for even heat and light cookware for speed.
ContrastCookware, not cutlery. Cutlery is what you eat with; cookware is the pots and pans you cook in. cutlery →
Not thisPlates and bowls are not cookware. Cookware goes on the stove.
SimplyThe cookware is in the box. All the things for cooking.

Patterna set of cookware · non-stick / cast-iron cookware · cookware shop

cookware is an equipment.