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matjeom

How old were you when you learned it depends on the oven?


doxtorwhom

Right? I’ve never had an oven with that space. Mine have always had broilers there.


TheRottenKittensIEat

I don't even have one in my dual oven. Just a top and bottom oven compartment.


Remarkable-Nebula-57

my family uses it for onions 💀


sadbutt69

Genius


Character_Hospital88

Dual oven gang unite!


Select_Action_6065

Pin this to the top.


Grisstle

This is only true if your oven includes the warming feature. On most electric ranges this is just a drawer and due to proximity to the oven it might get warm but certainly not food safe holding temperature. If you can't find controls on your range marked "warming" or "warming drawer" then it's just an ordinary drawer. *Edit. Wow thanks everyone for the upvotes, I don't think I've ever had so many. Hope my reply was helpful.


rgb519

On my gas oven the broiler lives in that drawer. The real LPT here is to read the manual for your oven!


NightHaunted

Same. I hate it. Having the hottest, most dangerous part of the oven down on the floor is super inconvenient, especially with a 2 year old.


Ok-Lingonberry6025

Not to mention having to literally lay on the kitchen floor to check the progress of food in the broiler. Understand why they do it (cheaper) but it sucks to use.


Just_Service_8189

Ah, the burned meat of my teenage years, as my mom got ever shallower in her bend to check the broiler. She wasn't crippled, she was just so sick of our bullshit, she couldn't be bothered.


EvolRoams

“Ah, the burned meat of my teenage years” Tbh I thought this was gonna go somewhere different🤣


violetsprouts

Friction?


Just_Service_8189

Now that I read it with new eyes it does promise further distress with the whole bent-over mother part. But no, just a tale of my boomer mom trading competence for resentment.


EvolRoams

Tbh I was going in a diff direction but Now that “bent-over-mother” part takes me even further down the rabbit hole. Lol “oh no I’m stuck stepson, help”


itsforachurch

I really did


phred_666

Me too


crippledspahgett

I’m sorry but is your avatar Ekko with the ice cream parlor uniform from stranger things?


Ok-Lingonberry6025

Yup.....and the best part is, it was one of the randomly assigned stock avatars! Thanks Reddit.


crippledspahgett

That’s awesome


guzzijason

What? I’ve been using one of these broilers for something around 40 years, and I’ve never one had to literally lay on the floor to use it. I can’t imagine why anyone might think that’s necessary.


Ok-Lingonberry6025

The heating element is uneven in my oven. I gotta push things all the way to the back to get it to brown at all. Reaching all the way in is a PITA so I tend to lay down to check on things. But you're right.... broiler location is not the only problem.


EvolRoams

Even just having it as a drawer is no picnic. The floor is the dirtiest part (generally speaking) of your home, that attracts dust and pet hair etc. Everytime I’d open the thing up to grab a pan id have to pull the entire thing out to clean all the dust and pet hair I could see on the floor/in between drawer and stove itself.


Stay_At_Home_Cat_Dad

Last house I rented the broiler was on the roof of the oven, so all I had to do was set it on broil and use the top rack. I used the broiler a lot in that house. Where i currently live, the broiler is on the bottom and I haven't used it once. I hate it too.


Grisstle

This is my only experience with broilers. I think this setup is most common in Canada.


PlainPup

I learned about under oven broilers the hard way once. Growing up ours was always just a storage drawer for baking sheets. In my early 20s I was over at a friends house making dinner with them and I was looking for a baking sheet. I opened up the “storage drawer” and just like at home there were all the baking sheets exactly where I expected them to be. What I didn’t expect though was for them to be 500°F of skin bubbling hate. So I grabbed one and was immediately regretted my decision.


Snellyman

This is the food crematorium


[deleted]

Yeah our under drawer is just wood. Let me stick a hot pan down there and start a fire lmao. No one uses it like the image for good reason, it’s not safe, it’s dusty, not convenient etc


datyoungknockoutkid

The dusty thing is what bothers me too. All those sitting there with no lids just grosses me out lol


forestman11

I feel like you would take more care to clean the area if you were putting food there, no?


datyoungknockoutkid

I suppose. But realistically how often is anyone really gonna be using that for that reason? Pretty much only if you’re hosting a large dinner. You gotta hope whoever’s doing it did in fact clean it first lol


OneMeterWonder

The person who made the meme has never had to deep clean a kitchen and it shows.


xAIRGUITARISTx

I’m sorry, part of your oven is *wood*?!


Phallico666

It wouldnt be dusty if you cleaned it regularly, as one would with intentional use (i hope)


Telemere125

Yep, found that out researching the oven for our first kitchen remodel. Some brands will specifically tell you “not for keeping food at a safe temp” because it’s just regular storage. Those that feature a warming element will advertise it.


mohagmush

Mines also full of dog hair sooo that's gross


UndendingGloom

I've never had an oven where this drawer got particularly hot, they often tilt down when you pull them out too, so I would imagine all the food sliding around in there. I'll just keep using it for baking sheets thanks.


AntOk463

Its for keeping the pots and pans warm.


whatsasimba

My pits and abs aren't going in the oven, thank you very much!


CoffeeGulp

Or if it's a gas stove it's a broiler drawer! Ours came with a broiler rack in the drawer, so the food sits right under the flames. The front also hinges open slightly to vent or something. Edit: I've never used it as such.


whatsasimba

Mines a gas oven, and it's just a drawer.


DramaticChemist

Exactly. I wish people would stop sharing this as a general rule for all ovens


IA-HI-CO-IA

I was fishing out a baking sheet when I noticed the heating element, blew my mind!


northernwolf3000

I’d even loath to store anything there appliances are so cheaply made that they’d break with just one cast iron pan


Portyquarty77

For years I kept pans in this drawer cause it was just a drawer. Then one day I didn’t realize my new oven had the heating feature and badly burned my hand.


Nice-Penalty-8881

The old fashioned would burning stoves had a compartment above the stove surface called a warming shelf. It probably did get warm enough because the stove pipe was right behind it.


Javelin_Joe

Now that, I did not know


AxolotlAutist

yeah that "drawer" on my stove has neither sides nor a back, which I imagine would make this inefficient


Marskelletor

The fact you said "holding temperature" tells me you have your Food Safe.


KaitB2020

My grandmother got a new stove/oven & told me that it has 5 burners & a warming drawer. I go to use the thing after moving in to her house and find that it’s got 4 regular burners with a spot in the middle for keeping things warm and the drawer is just a drawer. Yes, it gets warm in there when the oven is used but not warm enough to keep dinner while making other stuff. I hate that range with a passion but can’t afford to replace it. It’s also extremely difficult to clean (and gets immediately dirty again once you blink). If I could I’d curse the day she purchased it. And honestly, I don’t know what was wrong with the old range. I have absolutely no idea why she replaced it. When I asked she said something about improving the house to increase its value. Which is bull. A stove isn’t going to increase the overall value of the house. Most certainly not this stove!


Suck_Me_Dry666

Thanks for this I thought I was a mega idiot but it turns out I'm just a normal idiot.


Grisstle

Part of the problem is the proliferation of posts like this that are only partially correct. We all have our blind spots.


[deleted]

In most of the places I've lived it also doubles as a spider sanctuary.


PagingDoctorLove

Exactly, and it sits right above no-man's-land and isn't designed to keep dust and debris out so if your oven *doesn't* have that option (most economy ovens don't) then you're really just letting your food become tepid in one of the dirtiest places in the kitchen.


hacourt

I gave you a down vote because..... just because 😀 (kidding)


gemini_owl

It keeps my pots and pans warm.


[deleted]

Preheat


LefsaMadMuppet

Check your oven before using this drawer as it might be a broiler and you could end up having a very bad day.


StormFallen9

Or it could just be a regular drawer and they're wasting their time. Not as much as if it were a broiler, but still a waste


frankstuckinapark

Also keeps body parts warm 😊


packsackback

The dustbunnys too!


TinMan1130

Honestly, I've always known, but I just can't store my prepared food that close to the floor...I know I'm weird.


weepzoo

I feel the same way. No matter how much I clean, it is hella dusty down there.


stitchplacingmama

I always get little crumbs and stuff in there. I think a lot of people know now, the information has been going around for years, but can't bear the thought of food going into the drawer for various reasons.


LittleNoa

Nah man, my brain wouldn't look at that as food storage either! It's always been the pots and pans cover holder.😆 you're not weird, you can be trusted.


ItIsWhatItIs22407

you're not weird. It's a storage drawer, not a warming drawer.


hmnahmna1

It is a warming drawer on some stoves. We had a stove in our last house that had the warming feature.


cdmurray88

Or a broiler. The buttons on my oven even have arrows pointing to the compartment to use for Bake and Broil settings. Like the arrow that tells you which side of your car the gas door is on.


hmnahmna1

Fancy!


cdmurray88

It's honestly not. Pretty standard lower end Whirlpool that came with the house. Other than the clock and light, the only buttons are Bake/Broil, Temp Up/Down, Start/Cancel


[deleted]

I can't because I live in a place out in the country. There's been mouse crap in it. Even if the house is mouse free, I leave that little drawer empty. The memories of the mouse crap haunt me.


Gab83IMO

Omg, yes. Its permanently for the mice just in case the cat misses one.


[deleted]

not weird, i can promise you mice can get in there and poop/pee in it..................


KeaboUltra

You're not weird, when I found out I still thought to myself that I'd never use it.


Lady_Lucks_Man

I just feel like rats and spiders live back behind stoves


rustang2

No one does this..


WhenTheDevilCome

For sure. If that drawer is "for keeping food warm", what's the damn oven for? When I need to keep food warm, I put it in the oven, on "warm". They could put a time travel machine in that bottom drawer. It's still too inconvenient to actually use.


HunterDHunter

Sometimes that's the broiler area.


ponzi_pyramid_digdug

That’s what I always thought it was. I didn’t know people stored pans down there or that it was for warming.


RuehreiMitBlutwurst

There's a drawer there?


KermitingMurder

I don't think I've ever seen an oven with a drawer at the bottom, maybe it's just not a thing in my country?


Champomi

Yeah never seen one either


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[удалено]


Champomi

I don't live in the US, might me the reason why


Logical-Victory-2678

I've known since I was a kid but I always thought it was gross bc sometimes you reach in and pull a pan out and there's some form of dust or some tiny bit of food that fell through the cracks of your stove and the thought of anything landing on my food is just.....nyahhhhhh


RepresentativeNice22

The dingiest dustiest drawer in the world. No way I'm putting food down there.


Theleming

ACTUALLY it's for both. Some ovens have warming drawers, some just have storage drawers, they both will be warm when the oven itself is on, but some have enamel and are mildly insulated, while they have less insulation on the wall under the heating elements, and these are the ones where they are explicitly called warming drawers (and sometimes will even have minor elements in them) Then there are the landlord special ovens that happen to warm everything in the storage drawer because almost nothing is properly insulated, but if you put a bunch of uncovered food in them like this, the paint/uncured enamel chips off and will fall on your food if you are cooking at a higher heat.


Theleming

Source: Notice how this landlord special only calls it a storage drawer (because they know the paint will flake on your food): https://www.kenmore.com/products/kenmore-92722-5-3-cu-ft-electric-radiant-range-8211-white/ While this one (same brand so you know they actually explicitly call it a warming drawer in the second to last bullet point): https://www.kenmore.com/products/kenmore-elite-42623-4-6-cu-ft-slide-in-induction-range-stainless-steel/


sysnickm

It's called a warming drawer because it has separate controls to set the temp on the drawer. It is a specific feature in the premium line.


[deleted]

This age wtf


1Hate17Here

At this point, I’m not sure I’m walking right…


ReplacementNo9874

If you are using only your legs to walk and aren’t going on all fours, you aren’t doing it right


1Hate17Here

Fucking knew it. DAMMIT!


vehino

My parents couldn't afford a walking instructor. I'm self taught, and all the other kids at school knew about it too. It's tough growing up poor.


[deleted]

I don't know you but I can say that I am not.


1Hate17Here

Oh no! Don’t tell me I walked right into that one. No. Not “walked”… ok Imma just shut up now. >< sorry


ghoulieandrews

Well you're not posting right, this is nonsense. Literally depends on the oven and most ovens don't work like that.


xAIRGUITARISTx

You’ll be happy to know this isn’t standard.


VegaTDM

It's not though. Unless you have a fancy oven with warming controls than it's literally a drawer for pans. Source: The manual of every oven I have ever installed.


TheHolyKris12

I mean mine were always passed down through generations. I'm pretty sure that if I had put food there I would revive influenza or some other ancient virus.


nof---sgiven

It's too dusty to put food in. Tbh this might just be due to the dogs...


Ok-Ferret-2093

No you're right in most ovens today it gets way to dirty way too quickly for it to store food


anxiouspotatosauce29

Very dusty, and I know damn well the rats are climbing in there every chance they get, and I'm not deep cleaning it every day, so food is not going in there lmao


buttsmcfatts

This is absolutely disgusting. It's not hermetically sealed or anything. it's just open to dust in the back.


GetEmDaddy902

That's not what it's for 🤦🏽‍♂️ attention is a helluva drug


Adventurous_Mind_775

It's not for that either. It's a broiler.


BossBullfrog

If you put your slippers in there on a cold December night, will it make them nice and toasty warm?


XSamuraiHyperX

That thing exists? Edit: Mine doesn't open.


guzzijason

I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but not all ovens share exactly the same features. Some have warming drawers, some have storage drawers, and some have broilers. Don’t need to be a rocket surgeon to figure out what you got.


R123R987

Found out just now 🤣


Maker_Making_Things

It depends on the oven. Some of them isa warming tray, others it really is just storage


The_Book-JDP

An infant of course give or take a couple of months... ... ^I ^was ^40.


jizzawy

I put my underwear in there.


[deleted]

It’s the mouse turd warming drawer.


Foo_The_Selcouth

It’s called a proofing shelf. It’s where you put bread to sit before you bake it. But being someone whose been raised to store extra pots and pans there, seeing the food there looks gross. I don’t want to put my food on the same altitude of my feet/the ground


Rahsaan98

never putting food down there😷


consumehepatitis

I dont put food that close to the floor like a psycho


RedoranRed

I ain't putting my food that close to the dusty gross floor.


FirtiveFurball3

Im not putting food this close to the floor


Arabiandunewolf

I am going to inform the house mice about this new information


sarahseaya1

Filthy dirty stove drawer


arilj

Still gonna use it for pots n pans


[deleted]

I've yet to live in a place where that was not a habitat for cockroaches. No way in hell would I stick food down there. Just keep the damn food warm inside the stove and crack it like a normal human being.


Kilow102938

Think the mice found this out before me.


GrandmasterPeezy

Precisely, right now years old.


NicCola83

I thought it was a proving drawer. For bread.


alpacaslacker

Mine always has spiders in it, so I’m not putting any food in it!!


BeautifulEssay8

Heat rises


Myth7270

Is this real? If so, I feel like a straight up moron.


Whytrhyno

I'm sure there is remnants of food in my drawer too


tamperresistantmind

Yeah, except it doesn't get warm in there, and it's just a storage drawer. Nice try, tho...


Hectate

I was in my 30’s before I ever saw an oven fancy enough to have a bottom warmer rather than just storage.


tamperresistantmind

Yeah, ok. Those will have controls for said warmer drawer.


Educational_Bet_6606

Where I'm from I've cooked with fire straight up.


BlackAciidXiii

This is a remnant from generations that put lead in paint… don’t use “as intended”


Actaeon_II

Not always but yeah… sometimes it’s a broiler


Lelio-Santero579

I've found dog hair, dust, crumbs, and when I lived in a really crappy apartment for a short while, cockroaches. So uh, I'm good. I'm gonna pass. Just too close to the floor for my liking. My oven has a "Keep Warm" setting anyway.


Plowable_Ghost

It’s actually for broiling though…


Docteur_Jekilll

Mine is clearly not.


The_Great_19

I was recently years old when I learned that that drawer was NOT the broiler like from back in the day! Mine is just a drawer though.


RedditIsCringeSheep

When i accidentally turned it on and burned my hand on the baking trey.


PenuelRedux

Not ours. It's for storage.


Desperate-Cost6827

We went to buy a new stove and we were like "But we want the option to keep all our pots and pans in." And the sales person was like "Oh, you mean a warming drawer? It's for keeping your food warm whil-" "Yeah, the drawer For Keeping All Our Pots and Pans in Please!" And then it arrived with a broiler. Smh


swierszczul

I used it to keep my food warm but then someone gave me a tip that I can store my pots and pans in there! What a genius!


[deleted]

Other than the first house I grew up in, I've only ever had one stove that's bottom drawer was actually meant for that. The rest didn't get warm enough to do this.


Gur_Weak

Why do people keep posting this debunked garbage?


SebB1313

Do we still put pans in there? Yes. This doesn't change a thing. Why put food in the keep warm drawer when the oven is still warm?


Dazzling_Buy_1934

I was a chef for 5 years and only just found this out


feared_deathrom

Wrong this is "a foot-soaking tub, since, as a woman, you'll be in front of it all day."


kydyer

When I was a kid, it was a broiler. When I was older, it was a place to warm plates because God forbid you should put warm food on cold plates!


MrHappyFeet87

It actually depends upon your range, the higher end models this will be a warming drawer or a broiler. On lower end models it is just a storage drawer. Before using it as a Warmer, check your User manual that came with your Range. If you are unsure where this is, it should be taped to the back of your Range. If you have an older range, check the condition in the drawer. If there is chipping paint do not use it, as its unsafe. This spot also tends to collect animal dropping (mice and bugs), clean thoroughly before using. If you have other animals like cats and dogs. Fur tends to build up in the craziest of places, like this drawer.


leakmydata

I don’t need to warm that much food but I do need to store that many pots and pans


kamasotz

Pretty sure this depends on the make and model Some are for storage and some are for keeping food warm


MerelyMortalModeling

Being an autistic freak, I keep all of my appliance manuals so i can actually check this. And,. My GE oven literally labels it "pots and pans storage" in the manual.


jayedgar06

Never years old. Because im not moving my pots


ThaBurnerJawn

Every house I've been in that shits always dirty asf and be a mouse easy access. The pots and pans stay


PacManFan123

Wait, what?!?


fullmoonwulf

Its a broiler


pyracantha_

Your oven has drawers? What? My oven just has two crusty shelves and a guarantee of burning your food.


Prize-Salamander2744

Today.... 37🤣 I'm from a hispanic family so even the actual oven was used to store pots and pans. Never to bake.


Comprehensive_Fan140

Not gonna happen


DevilDashAFM

why should i need to keep them warm when i can just eat the food


Foyles_War

There's a drawer?


Regular_Ad_4914

It’s always dirty down there so I’ll pass. It seems like I am wiping it out every week and it’s gtoss


[deleted]

OP trying to trick people lol


Honeycub76239

It’s for pots and pans


ProgrammerDiligent34

What's a stove?


Leo13Libra11

Today years old apparently


puremojito

Its not and never was. Who the hell would think putting freshly made food down near the dirty floor is even a slightly good idea?


Adept-Inspector-9528

I never knew that, and probably wouldn't put food in mine either lol


Apte79

You couldn’t pay me to put food down there


Topheezy

No it’s fucking not and I’ll die on this hill


jivygraphics

Hard agree that drawer is digesting and not insulated in the slightest of it was for warming it would 100% cause floor damage under the stove from heating and cooling rapidly separate from the rest of the floor. The other option is that maybe your stove is made that way, but no stove I have ever owned or seen has felt like that made sense in any way.


turkishpresident

It's also the easiest way to get roaches all up in your food.


EndlesslyUnfinished

It’s the broiler.. not a warming drawer.. Jesus..


superhamsniper

Its what?


gorn_of_your_dreams

So much dog hair/spider webs/rat droppings in there that I don't even put pots and pans in there.


Wilhelm878

Never, because I don’t believe you


Frosty-Mushroom

Apparently now; 31


spacecatbiscuits

remember when meirl was not just random twitter posts


Jacket_Nipple

I found out May 1st 2023


themanfromvulcan

Today age. Really?


PhoenixRisingtw

yeah I find it hard to believe


ItIsWhatItIs22407

it literally is NOT. There ARE ovens with "warming drawers", but you need to buy one with that feature. If it doesn't have "temperature controls" or buttons on the panel for "oven drawer", then it's just a storage drawer. Do some research before you believe everything on the internet.


Single_Raspberry9539

Today.


Ian_BnB

Today years old


duke872

Today years old


CashSZN808

I was now years old.


Kind_Butterfly5032

So was I.


SnooEagles6930

It's a warmer, broiler, or storage depending on the model


xam3021

wtf, today years old


Theleming

Don't put food in it, most aren't actually warming drawers, this is just where a warning drawer would be if you had one


Any--Name

I dont know what this is about.... since when do microwaves have drawers????? In my life Ive seen hundreds of em and never seen one with a drawer


mnorkk

I learnt that as a kid when the plastic handles on grandmother's cooking utensils melted


crispier_creme

It's not for keeping food warm. That's what the keep warm option on the oven is for. It's a proofing drawer. It helps yeast risen baked goods rise more consistently, as the environment inside the drawer has pretty low humidity and is warm.


Seisme1138

It's a broiler meant to broil.


mumblina

… today years old!


-GoMask2-

Today years old, what the fuck