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five ring burner

jacdac

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Lebanese
Nicola stood leaning against the hob of a five-ring burner. It was covered with pans, piled into one another, then layered over with baking trays.
source: Watching You by Lisa Jewell

is this a five ring burner ?




Thank you.

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The use of "hob" suggests that this is a British writer. We should wait for a Brit to answer this.
It's odd. I assume she's leaning against the five-ring hob of a gas cooker. That's what heypresto's image shows. As it's a gas cooker the rings can also be called burners. But "five-ring burner" makes no sense at all.
The "hob of a five ring burner" seems a really strange thing for someone to say, even someone British (which Lisa Jewell is). "Burner" and "ring" mean the same thing, so this is a five-ring hob or a five-burner hob, but not a five-ring burner.

[Cross=posted with Andygc]
Electric heating elements are in "coils". I would call this burner a "6-coil" burner. (But I don't really think that this is what is being referenced. I've only found what I would call "4-coils" and "6-coils". I did not see any that would be called "5-coils".)
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