How Often Do You Use Your Grill?

[EcclesCake]

I am interested to know who uses their grill frequently and what you use it for?

Is it toast, meat or simply for browning a dish off?

[stuey]

A grill to me is a flat, or sometimes ribbed, surface which gets hot but you don't see the elements, and you mostly side food around on with a spatula until it's cooked. When you broil something in your oven, you can actually see the red hot elements above the food and sometimes below as well.

[stuey]

"slide"

[cupotee2]

Not at all now. My grill is inside the oven, I find it very smokey.

In my previous home I had a double eye level oven. Brilliant grill and rotisserie I used often.

I do miss it so apart from fried eggs occasionally its all mostly oven or hob cooked food.

[DaisyNonna]

Tiny kitchen, space under grill good for storage of baking trays

[marval]

I rarely use mine, it is in the oven and not convenient.

[Prudie]

I don't even know how to switch mine on.

[pastafreak]

I use mine ...a grill in my oven...for salmon fillets. They never dry out as they are swimming in butter. No fear of fat here!!
I panfry other fish fillets,tomatoes, bacon...and save the fat for other things.
All the above will have Tilly fainting in shock...:-D ;-)

[-SharonA-]

Why not Pastafreak, bacon fat is tasty, a bit like goose fat!

[Tilly2]

Errrrrghhhh!

[EcclesCake]

I'm am wondering why a grill integrated with an oven is inconvenient?

[237SJ]

Because when you cook something in the oven and it spits fat upwards, the fat lands on the grill which results in the fat burning off (with the resultant smoke) when the grill is switched on.

[DaisyNonna]

I would like an oven with two separate storage spaces at the bottom for saucepans and baking trays. A waist level oven, eye level grill and separate hob.
Unfortunately neither my kitchen nor my wallet would stretch to that.
Gas preferred if it were correctly calibrated and delivered hat uniformly to the oven.

[diddlydo]

I use my grill (incorporated in the top oven of my dual-oven free-standing old-school cooker) virtually every day. I've never set it on fire!

[zebo]

Odd that a number of people speak fondly of eye-level grills, almost impossible to get in a modern all-singing all-dancing cooker yet our Mothers or Grandmothers always had one. Some modern improvements are not all they seem.

[ethandron]

You've really made me think Eccles.
I used to use it a lot more than I do now, these days it rarely gets used.
I use it for grilling bacon, sausages (I don't like frying sausages as they roll about in the pan, they sit nicely and cook more evenly under the grill) and cheese on toast. And for doing the sugary top of a fresh fruit brûlée..I have a kitchen flame thrower but feel I get a better outcome from shoving it under a very hot grill... not that I make brûlée very often.
I used to always grill steak, when there were four of us at home it was more convenient to put all four steaks under the grill than do two at a time in the frying pan. Now there's just me and him, I fry them.
Mine is a waist height grill which can also be used as an oven, it only gets used as an oven on Christmas Day when I'm pushed for oven space. And then it smokes the kitchen out...

[RATTER15]

Rarely, we have a large range cooker and the grill is diabolical, the electric elements are so far apart that unless your food is very close to an element it will take an age to feel any heat from it.

[RATTER15]

I miss the old eye level grills, you rarely see them now!!

[Retrochic]

My mother was using her ancient cooker in her flat cos it had an eye level grill but she's just bought a new one -did not think they still did them but they do

http://www.tylersonline.co.uk/acatalog/new-55hlg-white.jpeg

[dannyk13]

Every time a recipe requires it.

[whiskeryron]

I've got to be honest, when I first spotted the post headline I thought it read
'' How often do you use your girl '' & I thought this should be interesting.