Scott Dorsey > wrote:

> My guess is that Orwell wasn't talking about a gas stovetop but a coal or
> wood-fired one. The hob then is just a metal plate on top of the firebox.

True, "hob" meant something different back then (as I learned from this
very thread). The point is that a heat tamer lets me emulate that metal
plate of old, using my present-day gas hob.

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