If your oven is electric the purpose of the bottom drawer is most likely to keep cooked foods warm.
The drawer under the oven.
Turns out the drawer under your oven isn t actually for storing baking sheets and muffin tins it s actually a warming tray for hot food.
To be sure pull open the door.
Usually the heating.
If you have a good oven there s an infinite list of.
But apparently that drawer under the oven is not necessarily for storage and popsugar s anna monette roberts did everyone a huge favor by figuring out what exactly the mystery drawer is for.
If it looks more like a retractable pan than a drawer then it s a broiler.
Cold or room temperature foods cannot be heated warmed or cooked in the warming drawer.
If you have an oven heated with natural gas the drawer is typically a broiler.
According to roberts that drawer could be a storage drawer or it could be a warming drawer.
A warming drawer under the oven is great when preparing multiple dishes.
The warming drawer is designed to keep hot foods at serving temperature.
The oven drawer could be for storing most people utilize their oven s drawer for storage whether or not it s meant to be used that way.
Always start with hot food.