My oven 'preheat light' doesn't beep when I'm preheating for the broiler. So how long should I preheat the broiler to achieve best results?
2006-10-22 11:31:26 · 13 answers · asked by SAINTintheCITY 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
To put your oven broil doesn't need preheating. Just turn on the broiler, look at the top of the oven for the flame to come on and you're ready to broil.
2006-10-22 11:34:37 · answer #1 · answered by Chef Orville 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The broiler does not use oven temp as the primary means to cook the food, it uses the actual flame to cook, kind of like an upside down grill, and just like a grill you can start cooking once turned on, but it will cook a little faster if you do preheat it, 5-8 min should be more than enough time to preheat.
2006-10-22 11:46:54 · answer #2 · answered by Goo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You really don't need to pre heat the broiler since you are useing 'Direct Heat" from the heating element. Where as if you were bakeing your useing Heat radiated off of the walls of the oven thats why you pre-heat when you bake.
So in conclusion the answer to you question would be to just wait till the heating element is on all the way if your useing an electric oven this should happen in under 2 Mins if your useing a conventional over less then that.
2006-10-22 11:43:23 · answer #3 · answered by Critical 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't pre-heat a broiler. That's why, with an electric oven, you need to leave the door slightly open so that the thermostat doesn't think that you have reached temperature and shut off.
When you are roasting or baking, the oven doesn't maintain a constant temp. It cycles up and down trying to maintain the selected temp as an average. You don't want to do that when you broil. Just crank it up and crack the door.
2006-10-22 11:40:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Preheat Broiler
2016-11-12 08:11:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Set the button to "bake" and then set the temperature to 350. On maximum ovens, there's a easy that comes on while the temperature reaches the putting. yet in case you have no longer have been given a easy, 10-quarter-hour ought to be adequate. stick to the guidelines on the kit of cake blend. the quantity of time would be diverse reckoning on the size and shape pan you employ, yet except it somewhat is cheesecake or in one great pan, it in all probability won't take extra beneficial than 35-40 minutes if that. The try is to adhere a toothpick into the midsection and despite if it somewhat is sparkling once you pull it out, the cake is finished. stable luck!
2016-12-08 19:16:13 · answer #6 · answered by barsky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A broiler is like a toaster. It doesn't preheat.
2006-10-22 11:38:42 · answer #7 · answered by Dentata 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The broiler usually gets hot quite fast depending of course, on your particular stove. A couple of minutes should do it.
2006-10-22 11:35:30 · answer #8 · answered by ironbrew 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just turn it to broil...leave it for a minute or two for the element to heat up. Broil means that the heat is concentrated on one side, not an all around temp.
2006-10-22 11:34:32 · answer #9 · answered by *ღ♥۩ THEMIS ۩♥ღ* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It works like a toaster oven, turn it on and set the timer.
2006-10-22 11:40:28 · answer #10 · answered by hydroco 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋