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Dan Abel

In article >,
(Steve Pope) wrote:

> Goomba > wrote:
>
> >gtr wrote:
>
> >> My wife points out when I was broiling lamb-chops yesterday that
> >> broiling should *always* be done with the oven open.
>
> >Electric broilers need the thermastat to remain activated in the "on"
> >mode. Gas broilers don't work that way.
> >So Electric broiling- leave door ajar.
> >Gas broiling- close door
>
> I thought it you turn the knob all the way up to "broil" the
> electric element is hard on.
>
> Not true?
>
> It's true in my toaster oven!

Kind of scary to think that your (probably) el cheapo toaster oven has a
more sophisticated control system than the electric ranges that many
folks here are claiming to have?

Or maybe it's just one of those things where you do things because
that's how they've always been done, and you leave the oven door open to
broil because back in grandma's day, the stoves didn't have a "broil"
setting, so you just turned it up all the way and left the door open so
the thermostat wouldn't ever turn the heat off!

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA