English edit

Etymology edit

From cooking +‎ -ware.

Noun edit

cookingware (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of cookware.
    • 1885 November 21, “Local Items”, in Cloverdale Reveille[1], volume VII, number 9, Cloverdale, Calif.:
      The Berlin cookingware is one of the greatest improvements in cuisene[sic] department ever brought to town. On exhibition at J. Haupt’s.
    • 1886 February 1, The Sun[2], volume XCVIII, number 66, Baltimore, Md.:
      We have reduced our entire line of Brown Tea Pots—Yellow Bowls and Cookingware.
    • 1893 November 8, Indiana Times, volume XVI, number 10, Indiana, Pa., page 4:
      See the Electric Cookingware, Coffee Pot, Skillet, Sad Iron, etc., on exhibition at Alex. T. Taylor’s.
    • 1894 June 18, The Helena Independent, volume XXXV, number 120, Helena, Mont., page 5:
      Aluminum is the perfect material for cookingware.
    • 1900 December 3, The Daily Journal, volume 22, number 261, Freeport, Ill., page 1:
      For a moderate-priced coal we guarantee this the cleanest in the market, burning to a clean white ash, and no soot that adheres to your stove or cookingware.
    • 1977, Edwin L. Kendig, Jr., Victor Chernick, editors, Disorders of the Respiratory Tract in Children, 3rd edition, W. B. Saunders Company, →ISBN, page 691, column 1:
      Polymer Fume Fever / This syndrome is produced by two different chemicals: polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) and polyvinyl fluoride. These chemicals are widely used in the coating of cookingware, chemical vessels, wires, gaskets, bearings and medical instruments (Kuntz, 1974).
    • 1987, David A[llen] Aaker, John G. Myers, Advertising Management, 3rd edition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 393:
      Suppose, for example, that for a line of cookingware the manager obtained the services of three agencies, each of which generated a campaign and at least one television commercial representing that campaign.
    • 1988, Jeanie Gibson, Any Time, Lord: Honest Prayers for Mothers, St. Paul Books & Media, →ISBN, pages 115–116:
      The next area of difficulty is that of pots. I’ve become sceptical of cookingware “no-stick” signs: they are symptomatic of modern “wishful thinking.”
    • 2015, Tamara Linse, Earth’s Imagined Corners (book I of the Round Earth Series), Willow Words, →ISBN, page 240:
      The trunk was full of not only dresses and clothing and shoes but also cookingware and towels and blankets and a sewing kit and so many other useful household items that Sara would not have thought to include.
    • 2015, Peter Nabokov, How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family, Viking, →ISBN, page 207:
      All around the main room were more shelves for bolts of calico, tin cups, and enamel cookingware, locally made Acoma and Laguna ceramics on consignment, hooks for bridles and livery, a few saddles propped against the corner, and a hanging pole displaying Navajo blankets.