Oven Door Open Or Shut When Broiling

If your oven is less than ten years old chances are you should be broiling with the door closed.

Oven door open or shut when broiling.

If you close the door when broiling in an electric oven the temperature will cycle making an uneven cooking process. 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. Broil in the upper oven with the door closed and broil in the lower oven with the door open. Closed door broiling works best when using lo broil and are cooking thicker cuts of meat for longer periods of time like chicken breasts.

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. 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. Most ovens sold today are built as closed door broilers for reasons of safety and smoke control. 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.

Reply kchurchill5 apr 22 2009 09 03 pm re. And in broiling you want hot high and dry searing so the open door helps the heated moist air cycle out. Broil with door closed. I have to remind myself because my former old oven required an open door inpatskitchen says that her broiler flame actually goes out if the door is left open for 30 seconds or so.

Driver june 7 2013 on newer ovens there is a high temp limit which protects the electronics of the oven. 20 and 24 inch compact ranges.