/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I mean, this is also a board for food discussion, not just cooking.

only setting i use on the toaster oven, why would i want stuff falling onto a hot element? just melt the cheese on top of the bottom half of the sandwich and toast the inside of the top piece of bread. boom. perfect sandwich.

It's great for roasting things like sausages if you put them at the bottom of the oven.

I do occasionally. Got drunk the other night and made a grilled Dorrito sandwich.

Yes usually for crisping meats after baking

>>17368377
Stop gatekeeping cooking.

>>17368462
>tendie microwaver confirmed

>>17368462
got any good broiler cookbooks?

>>17368377
No, because I have a proper grill. A real one, not a grate over a barbecue. The thing you use to make genuine grilled cheese. It's like what you call a broiler, but it is its own compact little drawer above the oven.

>>17368479
Fuck used to have one of those little bad boys. Impossible to clean but fuck they work.

>>17368377
Yes, but only for finishing pizzas and beef short ribs that have been brushed with BBQ sauce. I want to use it to sous-vide duck confit but I'm afraid of burning the duck or starting a fire.
>>17368479
British detected, we'd call it a Salamander or infrared broiler.

>>17368479
wish I had a salamander. when I construct/remodel my own kitchen it'll have a hood/extractor that vents outside, a half flat-top range, and a salamander

>>17368607
>it'll have a hood/extractor that vents outside
Where the fuck else would it go?

>>17368607
how hard is it to keep the flat top clean? I'm worried things would get scorched on there and replacing the surface eventually would be expensive. Is it just barkeeps friend + grill spatula?

>>17368613
upstairs bathroom

>>17368613
lots of them around here just put the air through a filter and release back into the room. I'm talking about an industrial grade one anyhow, such that you could flame grill a steak and not have the smell/smoke fill the house

>>17368628
if it's stainless steel then not hard, just fill it with water and let it simmer a while then scrape. The metal may discolor some due to heat but that doesn't bother me.

>>17368377
I don't eat bread or cheese, so I don't have a use for it

>>17368628
Super fucking easy. Scrape off everything with a bench knife or whatever you call it, pour some oil on, then clean it up with a grill brick, then clean as much of the oil off as possible with the bench knife again, then wipe the reside off with rags of choosing. You can leave those fuckers spotless every night after 18hrs of service in about 10 minutes.

And don't get grill cleaners from Menards or some shit. Go to amazon. You can get the massive black bricks we use for around 3USD a piece as opposed to a tiny little weird shaped piece a store will charge you 8 USD for.

>>17368632
>ribaDAIRchee

>>17368377
Garlic bread.

>>17368632
>Extractor goes into bathroom
>Turn bathroom fan on
>Double filtered air goes into the atmosphere thus cleansing the air
Problem Greta Thumberg?

>>17368639
You don't roast vegetables either?

>>17368773
>no slight hint of mesquite
>cleansing
i don't think you know what you're talking about

>>17368377
you mean the grill?

>>17368377
just used it for basically the first time to roast red pepper, fookin delicious. felt like i leveled up

My mom always told me to broil things with the door open? Is that true?

I only used it for crisping stuff up until I realized that it was the easiest way to make burgers without a grill. Salmon is good too.

>>17369026
I don't understand the logic of this.

One thing I've noticed in Stralia that I've not seen in the USA is a lot of ovens (gas or electric) have a narrow "grill" section built in up at the top. It's basically a shallow broiler and you're meant to use it with the little door open.

Can get sizzly and smokey at times but I find it works fucking great. Bacon, sausies, fish... comes out really good and cooks fast in that little nugga

>>17369188
>fish
Interesting, I've always put my fish in the oven despite having those. Does it still get nice and crispy if it's crumbed?

>>17369195
the grill makes it crispier anon, you just have to choose your heat and distance carefully

>>17369204
>distance
Mine has one distance only but good to know, will try it out. Mostly used it for making cheese toast

>>17368479
>Do you use your broiler /ck/?
>no, i use my broiler

>>17368377
What's with all the "everyone eats fast food except me pls validate pls pls validate" shit threads lately? Why can't the janny ban this shit for brains zoomer and not the people actually posting cooking threads?

>>17368377
I’ve got duck meat cut into skewers. Should I use the broiler to cook them?

>>17368377
been making big batches of greek yogurt marinade chicken thighs chopped into nuggets under the broiler.

cooks fast and tastes delicious

>>17368377
I use it for salmon but not much else.

>>17368377
When preparing an omelette I will briefly put it under the broiler while the egg is still wet

>>17368377
Sometimes, but not frequently. I mostly use it when I'm making cornish hens.

I broil my bacon

i cooked skin on chicken thighs in the oven. then i removed the skins and broiled them for some nice chicken skin chips. it was kinda fun, idk if it was worth it though

>>17368382
fuck off fast food cunt

>>17368377
The few times I've used my broiler was to melt cheeses to finish up tostadas and shit like that.

>>17368377
yes, it's a pain in the ass and hard to control
>I'm gonna take your dish from raw to burnt in the course of literally 1 minute
>oh and the timing changes exponentially based on distance LMAO get fukt

>>17369188
TIL amerifat ovens don't have a separate grill
fucking hell lads, i thought you were supposed to be the master race.

>>17368377
I barely use the oven. I'm constantly using the grill, Smoker, stove top, air fryer.

>>17370046
I stopped using my grill for most things once getting used to using the broiler. The effect is the same (assuming your grill uses gas) and you don't have to go outside if the weather is bad or anything. I find the broiler needs less attention also since the hot zone is uniform, I can load a tray of chicken thighs and the only interaction after putting it in the oven is when it's time to flip

>>17368377
I'm buying a toaster over today (countertop 32lt) that includes broiler function. It's my first oven, any advice?

All the time, great for toast and browning things like cheese ect…

>>17371328
on a specific make/model toaster oven? or how to use a broiler? For make/model, I personally would get the fanciest Breville (has like 20 functions including dehydrator and airfry) but that's like $500 so that might be out of your price limit. All other cheap toaster ovens that do bake/broil/toast should be fairly equal, get the size you want. If you're asking about how to use a broiler - any food that you would grill would benefit from being broiled. Meat, vegetables, etc. Broilers are also good for finishing dishes, so you could put a bowl of macaroni and cheese under the broiler for a few minutes to crisp the top- for example.

>>17371428
Yeah it's on the cheap side but it has nice options and good reviews (at first I wanted the more expensive Ninja Foodi 8 in 1 but I decided that I should start with an inexpensive model to learn the stuff then in a couple years I can think of getting a fancier one) and I wanted to know the basics of making/heating food on it. Thanks for the advice.

>>17371182
The weather doesn't bug me, there could a foot of snow outside and I'll be wearing a t shirt and shorts. I got a nice spot that's fully covered that I keep all my stuff for my outdoor kitchen in. Plus I find it very enjoyable to stand outside and cook.

>>17368377
Yeah, if my shepherd's pie top isn't almost burnt I don't enjoy it nearly as much

>>17368377
I broil my hamburgers and they are always perfect.

i learned to use my broiler from gorton ramsay constantly using a salamander on one of his shows
i didn't/don't know what a salamander is but i thought it looked a lot like my oven's element so i started holding trays of food an inch away from it to finish them

>>17368377
Daily. Toasters are space-wasters.

>>17368377
I use it occasionally, but only to broil stuff.

dont need it

>>17368607
>salamander
based ausfag

>>17369188
What would be the difference between using one of these or simply putting your food on the top rack in your oven just below the heating coils or whatever your oven uses on the lowest setting?

>>17373154
my electric oven has a secondary element for grill mode which makes it hotter and the heat more even. the regular oven element just goes around the outside and wouldn't be much good for grilling/broiling

>>17373197
Gotcha. Tbh as someone that grew up in an area that rarely dipped below 40F (South Carolina) I’ve had to learn how to cook in a stove consistently he’s roast few years in northern WA state. Growing up we either ate constantly off an outdoor brick grill or food off the stove top, and occasionally my mom would do a casserole or something. I never realized how little we used our oven until I moved away and was having to cook indoors for 4-5 months out of the year instead of *maybe* 1

>>17369026
My old oven had a thing you had to pullout that interfered somehow

>>17368377
Well, since there's no way I'm putting a salamander in my kitchen, and that cheese needs to bubble-ripple for it to REALLY be done correctly...

buying a new broiler pan, does the height of the sides matter?

>>17373541
no, I just use a sheet pan with an oven rack on it so there's no chance that whatever I'm broiling sits in liquid

>>17368377

i live in an old ass hose i inherented from my uncle that isn't even yet paid for fully. i don't trust the god damn oven in this house. if I turned on the broiler part i'm afraid the oven would blow up

>>17368782
thats what the oven is for