It hit me that I don't know how to naturally phrase this...
Basically, the impetus is if I was at a teppanyaki restraunt, and wanted to ask what they referred to the flat grill they use as. So the question would be something like "What do you call that thing upon which you're cooking the food?" I know the words for every part of this sentence, and know a ton of grammar, but this particular sentence seems to be eluding me >.<. Help pls? ;-;
I know there are a zillion workarounds, some that are probably even more natural. For example, "何の上にそれを炒めてますか?" ("what are you cooking that on?"). But I'm intentionally asking how to directly say "what do you call that thing upon which you're cooking". Preferably, I want the answer in a manner that's phrased like "___________は何と言いますか?" For example, if I wanted to ask "what do you call the tool you're using?", that could be translated as "君が使ってるその道具は何と言いますか?"