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‘cooker’
A cooker is a metal oven and hot plate that you use for boiling, grilling, or roasting food.
The food was warming in a saucepan on the cooker.
In American English, this machine is called a range.
Can you cook fried chicken on an electric range?
‘cook’
A cook is someone who cooks meals as their job.
They had a butler, a cook, and a maid.
You can also describe someone's ability to cook by using cook with an adjective. For example, you can say that someone is a good cook or a bad cook.
Abigail is an excellent cook.
Be careful
Don't refer to a person who cooks meals as a ‘cooker’. Don't say, for example, ‘Abigail is an excellent cooker’.
Don't refer to a person who cooks meals as a ‘cooker’. Don't say, for example, ‘Abigail is an excellent cooker’.