In NE we mostly call the cooking areas of a stove "the burners" ... I have a gas stove which is very handy when there is a storm and power failure. My Grandfather sometimes called the stove "the hob." Not much used nowadays.

I know it's popular with the electric suppliers to call those failures "outages." YEK. It wasn't allowed in copy (in my day!) because -- the Editor said -- it wasn't in the dictionary or the AP Stylebook ... it is now but I still think it's one of the "we didn't do it and it wasn't our fault anyway" words used by Power companies.
It wasn't out it *failed. And even if it fails for several days they never give you a credit or even apoligise, do they.
//end rant//