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.

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. Driver june 7 2013 on newer ovens there is a high temp limit which protects the electronics of the oven. 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.

Broil with door closed. Importantly gas broilers will maintain a steady temperature with the oven door open or closed. Reply kchurchill5 apr 22 2009 09 03 pm re. Closed door broiling works best when using lo broil and are cooking thicker cuts of meat for longer periods of time like chicken breasts.

Broil in the upper oven with the door closed and broil in the lower oven with the door open. If you close the door when broiling in an electric oven the temperature will cycle making an uneven cooking process. 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. 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. 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.