Many technological items we use in our homes have almost life-saving features. However, some of our technological items that we use almost every day still have unknown aspects.
You must have seen that there is a drawer-like section at the bottom of the ovens we frequently use. We usually use this compartment to store our recipe books, kitchen linens or items we don’t want to be in front of our eyes. However, the purpose for which this compartment was designed is quite different.
You can have a warming drawer.
Even if we are cooking a meal in the oven, we use the stove when we want to heat a meal left over from the previous day or that we made that day. However, most of these drawers under ovens are designed for exactly this purpose.
If there is a ‘heating’ sign on the buttons on your oven; This means that you can use the drawer to heat your food.
If your drawer type looks like a grill pan…
You can easily heat a dish you cook in a casserole or a bread you bought cold from the market in this compartment. You can also use this section if you want the ingredients you add on your meals to brown a little more.
However, since the drawers designed in this way will transmit the heat much more, it is useful to check your meals once in a while.
What if it just looks like a drawer?
In this case, the heat coming down from your oven will be much less. Compared to the previous drawer types, the compartments designed as ‘storage drawers’ are much deeper and look like a full drawer.
However, you can still use a small amount of heat efficiently. For example, placing your pots or pans in this compartment helps prevent them from rusting.
Why doesn’t every oven have these drawers?
Actually, the reason for this is quite simple. Over time, our needs and purposes of using things have changed. We usually see this type of drawers in older type ovens. Because now we have microwave ovens in our lives that allow us to heat our meals.
Moreover, drawers are now added under the oven in kitchen cabinets.
When designing kitchen cabinets, a small drawer is usually added to the part where the oven will come. These drawers provide the heat balance of your oven and you can store your items such as pans and pots here as they receive some heat. We cannot say that it is very useful for heating food. However, we recommend that you do not store your plastic items in the drawers under your oven.
If there is a drawer under the oven in your home, you can easily find out for what purpose it was produced and what type of drawer you have by checking the user manual. So what do you use this drawer for?
- Sources: CNET, Delish, TODAY
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