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Nancy Young[_8_] Nancy Young[_8_] is offline
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Default Warming dishes

On 1/25/2016 8:56 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-01-25 8:27 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> Our cupboards are on an outside wall of the kitchen so with the doors
>> closed they are always on the cool side. I put plates in the oven to
>> heat them a bit so they don't cool the food when served. Cups I'll fill
>> with hot water and let them stand a few minutes.
>>
>> I'd put in a warming drawer if we had the space. Anyone else doing this?

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> Wasn't that draw under an oven originally intended as a warming drawer?I
> guess modern ovens are too well insulated to do that anymore.


That bottom drawer was either the broiler or just a drawer in
all of my ranges until this one. I have a warming drawer now
but I don't use it much at all, even though I have a similar
problem with the dishes being on an outside wall. I just take
them out early.

nancy