On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 11:01:14 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:
>On 4/8/2018 10:49 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Sun 08 Apr 2018 06:18:06a, jmcquown told us...
>>
>>> On 4/7/2018 2:11 PM, wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 13:39:08 -0400, jmcquown
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/6/2018 10:32 AM, songbird wrote:
>>>>>> i consider a person a good cook if they
>>>>>> rarely make things that can't be eaten.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> that pre-amble said: what have you made
>>>>>> that was horrid?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> for me, liver soup, i don't know what i
>>>>>> was thinking. slabs of liver in a tomato
>>>>>> based soup. could not be rescued... the
>>>>>> worms ate that... this was like 30yrs ago.
>>>>
>>>> I've never heard of liver soup so I looked it up, sure enough
>>>> there are lots of recipes... none look edible to me, and I happen
>>>> to like calves liver and chicken liver... I like liverwurst too.
>>>>
>>>>>> lesson very well learned. 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it's a cold and blustery early spring day
>>>>>> here, tell me stories.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> songbird
>>>>>>
>>>>> I've thought about this for the last day or so. I honestly
>>>>> cannot think of an inedible meal I've ever cooked.
>>>>
>>>> Me neither. Like you I've undercooked a few dishes but they were
>>>> easy to fix. I've never used my stove's broiler... once I hit
>>>> the Broil switch only to see if it worked. Long ago I remember
>>>> the broiler being in a bottom drawer of the gas stove, it's was a
>>>> monsterous job to clean. Even though the broiler is now at the
>>>> top of the oven I still have never used it because I realize how
>>>> it will make a big mess in my oven, and my oven has a self clean
>>>> feature but why mess up the oven unnesessarily... I've had this
>>>> stove some twenty years but only used the self clean feature
>>>> once, really just to see if it worked. I use my oven often but
>>>> with over size roasting pans it stays clean.
>>>>
>>> This was an electric oven with the broiler element on top. The
>>> burgers I cooked were on a slotted broiler pan. Same setup as in
>>> any other oven broiler I've used. Using the broiler doesn't make
>>> any more of a mess than anything else. I guess the old bottom
>>> drawer gas broilers were different.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>>
>>
>> Yes, the bottom drawer gas broilers were entirely different and a
>> real PITA to clean if it had been used to broil steaks, chops,
>> burgers, etc. The location was a PITA, too.
>>
>I had a gas oven with a broiler like that in an apartment I rented in
>midtown Memphis. This was decades ago. I can't recall ever using that
>broiler.
>
>Jill
You'd have remembered if you used it without cracking the broiler door
halfway and had a powerful exhaust to the outdoors.
My mother's gas stove had the bottom broiler but she never used it,
instead she had an electric countertop broiler; a round contraption
that was very retro looking all in shiny chrome with black bakelite
handles/trim. Those predated the toaster oven. Similar to this but
older:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-CHROME-...AOSw2gxYpeW Z