Oven Door Open Or Shut When Broiling

Closed door broiling works best when using lo broil and are cooking thicker cuts of meat for longer periods of time like chicken breasts.

Oven door open or shut when broiling.

Importantly gas broilers will maintain a steady temperature with the oven door open or closed. Reply kchurchill5 apr 22 2009 09 03 pm re. Gas and dual fuel ranges. Broil with door closed.

Jfood that is sort of what mom said but her s was well if you want it to broil leave the da m door open if you want to bake close it. If your oven is less than ten years old chances are you should be broiling with the door closed. Food52er mainecook61 checked her new ge oven s manual too which she says was clear about broiling with the oven door closed. I open the front and back door of the house take out the batteries in the ceiling smoke alarms then broil with the door open.

An electric ovens on the other hand needs the cooler air in the kitchen to keep it from shutting down when it gets too hot. 20 and 24 inch compact ranges. And in broiling you want hot high and dry searing so the open door helps the heated moist air cycle out. Broil in the upper oven with the door closed and broil in the lower oven with the door open.

Most ovens sold today are built as closed door broilers for reasons of safety and smoke control. We learned this the hard way in the test kitchen when one of our ovens shut down after we broiled with the door open and we had to call in a.