"Warming drawer" in the kitchen . . .

[janey99]

Oh no - my mind was almost made up against it, and now the people who love their warming drawers are chiming in!

My mother is pushing the warming drawer hard as well, for holiday use.

Maybe I should get her to pay for it!

Jane

 

[bookgirl]

My stove has a drawer at the bottom, we use it to hold pot lids. It gets warm without useing the warmer function, but not so hot as to make the lids melt or get anything past pleasently warm. That said you do have to remove the lids when you put the thing on clean because it gets really hot in that drawer then as the cleaning function takes the heat up to something like 500 or 600 degrees.

I've always just put the items I want warm either in the oven itself on low or just use the residual heat in the oven from whatever I was cooking. I also have one of those stoves where the back left burner is the vent for the oven.....I put anything I want warmed up or kept warm on that vent. Works everytime.

 

[clarabelle]

I wish I had gotten the double oven instead

I do use it -but it is too small -I would get the biggest one available
Also -mine does not have a on light -you can leave it on and not know it until you open the drawer

 

[terri01p]

 

[MM27]

My sil has a warming drawer in her kitchen and the only time she ever used it was when she made about 20 of those big pretzels for my niece's birthday party. They stayed a nice temperature and didn't dry out.

 

[MAKmom]

If the warming drawer is a separate item from the oven no do not get it.

I got a convection slide -in- range & love it,it has a warming drawer in it. Do not get a free standing range.

We did a remodel this summer the only thing I wish we had done is a built in coffee maker.

 

[pigletgirl]

Yes, we have one, and it is convienent on those rare occasions. I have found that it can dry out the food (especially meats), so you have to put that into consideration.

Is it a necessity? No, not at all.

 

[mtemm]

I don't have a warming drawer, but I do have a double oven and I LOVE it. we bought our house and the kitchen had been newly done, so not by us, but the previous owner had great taste in kitchens. one thing I did not expect to care much about was the trash compactor. LOVE THIS. I had no idea how much I would love it, but I really do. something you may want to consider

 

[java]

Warming drawer- no
Warming lights in the Hood =YES! that is what I miss most from our old house. It felt like a restaurant in there with those lights. I could keep dh's food warm.

I don't recall how much more it was but it wasn't much relative to the price of the stove.

 

[janey99]

Warming drawer- no
Warming lights in the Hood =YES! that is what I miss most from our old house. It felt like a restaurant in there with those lights. I could keep dh's food warm.

I don't recall how much more it was but it wasn't much relative to the price of the stove.

Warming lights are something else I'm considering. Do you have the full height stainless backsplash behind your range with the foldout shelves? If not, where do you put your dishes for warming?

I like the idea of a backsplash other than stainless, but I don;t know if you can then integrate a warming shelf to sit under the hood lights.

Jane