Posted on 01/14/2017 2:24:48 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Perhaps, like me, you use that drawer located underneath your stove for storing pans, cookie sheets, and muffin tins.
Unfortunately, we've all been doing it wrong, according to the good people who manufacture stoves.
While it does serve as a great spot for all of your back-up cooking tools, it's actually meant to be a warming drawer. You may notice a message printed on the inside of the drawer or in some sort of owner's manual that says something like this: "The warming drawer is designed to keep hot foods at serving temperature. Always start with hot food. Cold or room-temperature foods cannot be heated, warmed, or cooked in the warming drawer. Bacteria will grow very rapidly in food tht is between 40 and 140 degrees Farenheit."
Maybe it's because it's located so closely to the ground, or maybe it's because it's such a perfect spot for storing not-in-use skillets, but this is news to me. But what a great way to use all of that heat that goes into cooking your foodsnot to mention the ideal solution for dealing with dinner guests who are running late.
I need a new oven/stove. I have the original one that came with my 1980’s house. It still works great so I shouldn’t complain. But, there’s something fun about a cool new appliance.
I could certainly care less what they say
Our old Kenmore oven is actually a heat drawer as there is a control for it although we use the drawer for storage.
It’s where your wife makes you a sammich.
Don’t. Keep your old one as long as you can. One of the reasons I retired early was because of how bad the product is. And it is industry wide, not just GE. My brother does the same thing only for a dealer and services many brands. They are all crap.
Everything looks fancy and has lots of pretty lights, but they don’t work and break frequently.
Too much electronic gizmos and not enough quality materials.
I unplugged my oven since I do not bake.
I stored cookbooks in the oven instead.
Since I do not bake I rarely opened the oven door.
Mice had a great time nibbling on the books.
That’s when I considered using the stove... for the first time.
Then I unconsidered it when I realized the size of the fire.
It would have been a new twist to cooking the books. LOL.
To this day the oven remains unused.
I no longer have cookbooks.
So I don’t bake.
Fact.
I store my unused pots and pans in that drawer. Therefore, it is for storing unused pots and pans.
That might stink up the house.
Kindof funny principle because heat rises.
Thanks - that is reassuring...
No, mine (which I bought a few months ago) says “pan storage drawer.”
many years ago, that lower drawer was the broiler, but now most ovens have a top burner/unit to do that.
Only on older or low end single burner gas ranges is that true. Most newer gas ranges have a second burner inside the top of the oven for broiling.
Simple way to tell, look in the oven, if there is a burner in the top of the inside of the oven and there is a divider in the drawer area and you can’t see the oven burner, it is for storage.
>>Foodsnot?!? <<
Okra.
Only stewed by itself. Pretty good pickled, in gumbo and certainly when lightly breaded and flash fried.
Most people who have a warming drawer do use it for storage. Just make sure to empty it before turning it on.
I had one customer forget and melted her Tupperware all over the inside of it.
In a Futurama epi, yadda yadda yadda, the appliance salesman said that bottom drawer on the new model oven pulls out for the little woman to soak her feet in while she spends all day at the hot stove.
Thanks for the warning. The only items we store in the warming drawer are cast iron pans.
You mean the hand-washing trough??
Only prisoners get those one-piece models. Where are you serving your time? :)
You oh can put bake sheets and pans there the are all metal. This is for a gas oven. For broiling on electric oven the element of the main oven does that.
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