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.
My new oven has the top broiler but the one I replaced it with had only the bottom burner. I guess they got tired of people burning Tupperware:0)
The old one was about 5 years old.
I think they meant you should stuff the late guests into the warming drawer.
No, nobody made warming drawers until the 1980’s or 90’s that I’m aware of.
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That date coincides with the start of Global Warming.
One should always ‘roast’ a chile before consuming. That skin is undigestable. Goes for all peppers and some other veggies. I think that is why some people won’t eat them: Char the skin off and you will have an enjoyable gastronomical experience....(the more you know)
Good article.
Anyone try to rise bread in one? I love making bread and may just offer a loaf to the oven gods. (I just got a new gas range)
Why, right here in the readin', bathin', and dinin' room.
Gotta go now, got some cold bisque a'waitin' in the crock pot!
“depends on the stove”
Our Whirlpool stove has been at 475f for the last hour.
I just pulled out the bottom drawer to feel the pans stored there...
...they were cool to the touch.
its a good place for your heavy cast iron cookpans....but I do know its for warming but I just don’t use it that way very much...in fact, maybe once.
60 years ago, that’s where the broiler was located. At least that’s where it was down on the farm, on our old Magic Chef bottled gas range.
My Kenmore is about eight years old, and has this "warming drawer" that is made of plastic. Check yours...
You are right. Appliances used to last for multiple decades. They don’t last long anymore. I’ll take your advise and hold onto my boring old oven/stove. Thank you for the reminder.
Grew up eating them like this. Slice them up and Mix with some olive oil, vigegar and salt. A very nice little pimiento salad.
My washer is a 1976 and my dryer is a 1973, bought them used 30 years ago and they are still going strong.
Everyone else I know is buying a new one every 4-5 years.
“A convenient storage drawer underneath the oven provides valuable space for storing baking sheets, pans and pizza trays, so they’re out of the way but still within reach.”
My stove, which is a Siemens, says my model has a warming drawer, but I use it for storage. lol
“cooking your foodsnot to mention”
“Foodsnot?!? “
“Is that from the Michelle Obama school lunch menu?”
LOL!! I saw that, too, and wondered if anyone would comment on it in the thread. Ha!
That’s nonsense - it isn’t even a clean place. Dust of all kinds seeps in there not to mention CAT HAIR....I keep iron frying pans in there - breaking my back to get them in and out but they definitely aren’t clean enough to cook in without cleaning and I sure wouldn’t put ANY food down there.
“”Only some ranges have a warming drawer under the oven, most ARE storage drawers.””
You are right. I forgot I’d had a conversation in the past year with someone who told me stoves don’t have drawers in the bottom...I guess it’s the difference between gas and electric, right? My broiling (gas) gets done in the oven while others gets done in a broiler beneath the oven. BUT then, I have had broiling by gas in the bottom. Well, shucks - how did this get so complicated?
Then why doesn't the oven actually make it warm?
Electrics have always had storage drawers, recently some of them have been equipped with warming drawers.
Older and low end gas ranges only have one burner in the bottom of the oven so the drawer serves as the broiler as well. Most of the newer gas ranges have a second burner inside the top of the oven for broiling and a storage drawer underneath. Warming drawers are usually only found on higher end ranges.
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