In the UK people call cake "pudding"

[Yorkshire_Pudding]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

Okay, re: “hob” - definitely not a term in common use on this side of the pond. I’m assuming, from context, that cooking something “on the hob” means “on the stovetop”? Over here, we’d call that a “burner” or a “rangetop”.

Absolutely. A hob is the stovetop, burners, etc. (whether it’s actually on top of a stove or a separate, independent unit).

Going back to Dutch ovens, I guessed perhaps that
the term is more widespread in the US than the UK because Dutch (and German) people are, well, more widespread in the US; or at least, were during the colonial era. New York was of course originally a Dutch colony, and in the 18th century German held much the same position in the Middle Colonies that Spanish does today - a widely spoken alternative tongue. Benjamin Franklin once wrote about riding through Pennsylvania and hearing “devil a word but Dutch [German]” spoken.

Sounds perfectly plausible. My old German teacher told me about the language thing in school, incidentally. It’s occasionally come up in conversation, and is always oddly revelatory.

I’m guessing that since y’all don’t use the term, y’all are also unfamiliar with the, um, alternative definition of “Dutch oven”, as well… heh, heh, heh.

Not widespread (well, I guess being contained in a small space is kind of the point), but it is known. Perhaps more so than its use to refer to the cooking pot.

[StarvingButStrong]

Huh. I always thought the Dutch in Dutch oven was one of those ‘not really but sorta like’ uses of dutch. Like dutch courage, dutch door, double dutch, dutch uncle.

[Yorkshire_Pudding]

Another thread has just reminded me of this. Hamburger: hamburger only means the patty in the UK (and it’s pretty much never called a patty). And because ham is a kind of meat, and burger is an accepted shortened form which has become totally generic (chicken burger, veggie burger, etc.), hamburger isn’t that common either. A pack of frozen burgers is commonly labelled “beefburgers” (to distinguish them from “hamburgers” in the minds of misunderstanding Britons, I can only presume).

I remember my Dad disbelievingly saying “McDonald’s go on about their hamburgers but they also say their burgers are 100% beef!” when I was a kid.