cook with gas

Idioms  

1. Also, cook on the front burner. Do very well, make rapid progress. For example, The first half is finished already? Now you're cooking with gas, or Two promotions in two years—she's really cooking on the front burner! The first of these metaphoric phrases alludes to gas stoves, which began to replace slower wood-burning stoves about 1915. The variant, which alludes to something on a stove's front burner receiving more attention, is heard less often today. [Slang; 1940s] Also see back burner.

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Example Sentences

Roughly 40% of U.S. households cook with gas stoves.

From Washington Times

You can cook with gas even when the power goes out.

From Washington Post

In California, Illinois and New York, most residents cook with gas; in Texas and much of the South, it’s electric.

From Washington Post

But this study didn’t measure air quality in homes directly, so it’s unclear if the score drops were simply because people who cook with gas stoves are systematically different from people who cook with electric stoves.

From Slate

“If I only cook with gas, I won’t have enough. Even for coffee, I use firewood,” she said.

From Washington Times

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