The drawer underneath the oven has debatable purposes. Officially, it’s a “warmer drawer” where you put pans of food to defrost or stay warm from the heat of the oven. But most people use it for large pan storage. It is, actually, the most convenient place to put large oven-sized pans. And we both know that we’re not putting food … Read More

The oven door switch is a little feature that most of us never think about. After all, having the oven door open isn’t a big deal except for letting some heat escape. Some people open their ovens during cooking all the time and if you do need the oven to stay closed, you’ve got the lever-shaped door lock. The oven … Read More

This is not an article on how to clean the inside of your oven. You can do that with the Self Clean feature or foaming oven cleaner and a sponge. This is an article about how to clean the parts of your oven that always seem to get dirty and are seemingly impossible to keep clean. The panel around your … Read More

There are a number of problems that may plague your electric cooktop over time. The burners could get too hot despite the control knob setting or could get not hot enough no matter how high you set it, but the problem you might expect to come someday is that the burners will no longer work at all. It is the … Read More