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 • Mar. 7, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023

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

From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2021

Last week Gardner people who cook with gas were able to hear the legend firsthand.

From Time Magazine Archive

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