What is the purpose of the lower drawer in a stove?
The real use of the lower drawer of a stove is not for storing pots or pans. The truth is that it has a purpose that you probably did not know about.
Most people have a stove in their house with an oven that has a mysterious drawer at the bottom, a space that we usually use to store other objects related to the kitchen such as pans, pots, trays, chopping boards, among other things. The worst thing is that we usually keep a real mess inside this drawer because we accumulate things that will probably not used in a long time. But this door has a very different purpose.
This drawer at the bottom of a stove was not placed at random. The manufacturers had a definite destination for this place: To keep the food warm.
In this way, food preparations can be kept inside this box at a suitable temperature while eating appetizers, before the main course. These drawers usually have humidity controls to keep food from drying out.
Some examples for the use of the stove drawer are:
- Keep mashed potatoes warm
- Finish cooking chicken
What not to do
Never put raw food in this drawer because bacteria grow at low temperatures.
Remember!
A warming drawer is an economical and useful substitute for the microwave oven especially when the members of a family eat dinner at different times. Warming drawers only spend 400 and 550 watts of electricity to keep dinners warm.
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