The oven in my apartment came with a broiler pan. What is it's purpose & How do you use it?

Answer 1

Broil meat such as steak, lamb chops, anything you want broiled. Turn it on to Broil, wait until it is very hot, put a seasoned piece of meat on the broiling pan, cook, depending upon how well you want your meat, two minutes on each side, five minutes on each side, depending upon if you want your meat well done, rare, medium. Flip the meat over, and cook equally the same amount of time on the other side. Make sure you don't over cook the meat.

Answer 2

A broiler is like an upside down barbecue. Your oven will have a broiler element at the top of the main oven area or if it's a gas stove, it might be in the drawer under the oven.

The broiler pan consists of two parts, the pan itself and the grill or top part. If it doesn't, something's missing. See pictures using link below.

To use the pan, place the grill on top of the pan. Place food (usually meat) on the grill and place the whole thing under the broiler. Usually it's best to place the food up close to the broiler element or burner. About 4 - 5 inches works best. Set the oven to the BROIL setting. On an electric stove, that usually turning both knobs to the broil setting.

IMPORTANT: Watch the cooking process closely! Don't leave the room as the food will cook quickly and burn easily...just like a BBQ. When one side looks done, pull it out and flip the food over to cook the other side. All the grease will fall through the slots in the grill into the pan. Usually about 5 minutes a side it all you need.

It's a good idea to line the bottom pan with foil before putting the top on. they'll make cleanup easier.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Your broiler pan is designed to do two things:

1) Circulate hot air from the oven under the meat or bread you are cooking, for convection effect which cooks everything very, very fast, and

2) Catch the drippings from meat.

That is why it has both a slotted cover on top and a drippings pan on the bottom.

To use the broiler pan, check you'r oven's setting dial, and turn it to "Broil." You will notice that this heats NOT the bottom burner of the oven, which is what usually heats up, but that instead there is another element in the top,inside of the oven that heats up only on this setting.

Broiled food is cooked from above, not from below. The temperature of a hot broiler burner is always the maximum the oven can take, about 500 degrees F, so be careful not to burn yourself.

If you cook meat, such as a 2 pound flank steak on the broiler setting, place the marinated meat on the broiler pan, and put it in the oven after the broiler element heats up. Cook for only 5 to 6 minutes, then turn it over and cook for another 5 to 6 minutes.

That's all it will take, since the broiler is a very fast cooking method. Leave it any longer and you'll ruin the steak.

If you are trying to make garlic bread, wrap the buttered, garliced bread in foil and heat for three minutes. The bread will come out toasted.

Answer 4

Broiler pans are for cooking foods at a very high temperature. It cooks things more quickly, and can really add a nice flavor. It has to be a metal pan for the higher temperatures, as both glass and stoneware will break.

Rachel Ray actually uses her broiler to make toast, cook tomatoes, etc. I really enjoy broiling chicken, particularly chicken thighs which tend to be juicer than breasts and not as thick.

As for using it, follow the recipe, and turn the temp on the oven to broil. The heat comes from the top, and I believe you want the food close to the heat source, so you put the pan on the top rack.

Answer 5

you add water to the bottom of the pan an put your meat on the top tray ,then you stick it in the over an it will steam cook your meat an all your fat off the meat will drain off to the bottom pan.the meat or what ever comes out very nicely

Answer 6

you can toast garlic bread (keep an eye on it), or broil steak, fish, chicken.. it cooks faster than stove top or baking, and gives it a crispy outside

Answer 7

Angeleyes gave a great answer.