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The Old Stove

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A few of the words

TRIVET
A trivet — a three-legged stand set between a pot and the table — takes its name from the Latin 'tripes,' meaning three feet. Cast-iron trivets were a prized piece of kitchen equipment long before modern pot holders.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PILOT
The pilot light, a tiny standing flame inside older gas stoves, burned continuously to ignite the burners on demand. Many cooks swore by its gentle warmth for proofing bread dough on a cold day.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HEARTH
Before the modern range, the hearth was the stove — a wide fireplace fitted with iron cranes and hooks for hanging pots directly over the fire. The word itself comes from Old English and is rooted in the idea of burning and warmth.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SIMMER
A true simmer sits just below a boil — small, lazy bubbles rising from the bottom, never a full rolling surge. Generations of cooks passed down the art of 'keeping it at a simmer' for soups, stews, and sauces that reward patience.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Old Stove — a free, large-print word search glowing with burners, kettles, and the quiet warmth of a kitchen that never really cools down.

About Food & Home

The stove has stood at the center of home life for generations — a cast-iron range that radiated heat into cold mornings, a gas burner turned low under a pot of Sunday gravy, the kettle beginning its slow, building whistle. Learning to cook meant learning to listen: to the hiss of a skillet, the rattle of a lid, the particular sigh of steam escaping from something almost ready. Even the smallest details — the pilot light's blue needle of flame, the worn black dial, the trivet set out for a hot pot — held their own quiet ceremony.

How to play

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    Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
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    It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
  3. 3
    Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.

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