This conversation reminds me I need to check if I have a drawer beneath my oven for storing the additional pots and pans currently taking up all my extra counter space.
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 23, 2017 6:56:14 am PST #6013 of 30002
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bennett - Jan 23, 2017 6:58:30 am PST #6014 of 30002
In old gas ovens, where the pilot light stayed on all the time, the broiler could double as a warming drawer. Now that they have electric starters for safety purposes there's no residual heat waiting to be put to good use.
Dana - Jan 23, 2017 7:05:26 am PST #6015 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Look at bennett, with actual historical context and shit.
Today I'm angry at a non-tiny American woman. Variety is the spice of life, etc.
Steph L. - Jan 23, 2017 7:07:39 am PST #6016 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
In old gas ovens, where the pilot light stayed on all the time, the broiler could double as a warming drawer. Now that they have electric starters for safety purposes there's no residual heat waiting to be put to good use.
In the FB post I was talking about, one guy was genuinely confused about how electric ovens can have a warming drawer and asked "what is the source of heat when the oven is off." I deserve a cookie for not replying TURN THE OVEN ON, MOTHERFUCKER. (I said "I assume the oven has to be on." What the shit, guy. [This is the same guy who was genuinely confused as to how/why my arms could POSSIBLY be sore after lifting weights. For realsies. He wasn't trolling. I'm starting to think that Feral Boy from The Tick was based on him.])
Steph L. - Jan 23, 2017 7:08:23 am PST #6017 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Also, was Feral Boy part of the Civic-Minded Five, or am I misremembering?
Gudanov - Jan 23, 2017 7:13:07 am PST #6018 of 30002
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I would love to replace our 17 year old oven. It's never really been the same since the electrical fire.
Jessica - Jan 23, 2017 7:17:46 am PST #6019 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"what is the source of heat when the oven is off."
In my (gas, newish) oven, there is a switch to turn the warming drawer on. Presumably the engineers in charge of oven design have connected this switch to some sort of heating element. Is this not, generally, how ovens work?
Connie Neil - Jan 23, 2017 7:20:16 am PST #6020 of 30002
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If I do have a drawer below my oven, I wouldn't use it, because I don't want to bend over that far.
Jesse - Jan 23, 2017 7:35:25 am PST #6021 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Unrelated to ovens, but related to warm plates, have I posted here about how warming up the plate before putting waffles on it is a gamechanger? I just use hot water on the plate. (It was part of the "serving suggestion" on the waffle box, and they were CORRECT.)
Amy - Jan 23, 2017 7:36:49 am PST #6022 of 30002
Because books.
My gas oven has the broiler underneath, but I don't like it because it's so shallow -- I'm always afraid of burning things.
In an apartment in NJ, years ago when Jake was a baby, we had the most kick-ass oven from the '40s ('30s?) that had a broiler underneath and the side compartment for warming and the built-in griddle on top, like this: [link] I loved it.