Not in every oven.

I haven’t seen an oven with that kind of drawer for years. These days there’s just a setting on the oven itself for keeping stuff warm.

This is only true for some ovens. I've had one where the broiler was located there, one that was a warmer, and currently, one that is a storage drawer.

Some of them were actually for keeping things warm. Some were just a storage drawer, and some were a broiler.

Not in Germany.

Used to be where the broiler was located...before it was a warming tray/pan storage

I had only one stove that actually had a k**b to turn the "warming drawer" on. Other than than, it's just for storage!

It works great! I saw this on something a short while ago. Cleared out the baking pans and started using the drawer for yeast rolls. It works so well.

It depends on the stove... I've had it both ways

Because in the entire world absolutely everyone's oven is exactly the same. Our current oven has no bottom drawer and the last one it literally was open on the bottom, so anything put in there stood directly on the floor. I'm so sick of seeing this 'fact'.

Maybe that was the case some time ago. A friend of mine has such a thing and she uses it to keep food warm until everything for the meal is ready. And It is perfect for dough to rest there. But the drawer under my oven isn't getting very warm and it is made from wood. If it would get warm enough to warm anything it would be dry and broken one day.

Depends on the oven. Gas oven? It's usually the broiler. Electric? On much older models, before microwaves, it was a warming drawer. On modern ovens, if it's fancy, it might be a proofing drawer for bread, but otherwise, it's a storage drawer.

Tell that to my oven, an hour at 350 and I can pickup my pans bare handed, it's not the 50s anymore.

The drawer in my stove doesn’t get warm enough

Thought it was a foot soaker for all of the cooking your wife will be doing ;)

It is NOT a warming oven you twit.

We have large hairy dogs. It doesn’t matter how well you clean, it’s always filthy down there. No thanks.

It warms up tortillas really nice while I'm making taco meat

Wanna bet?

also for warming the plates where the food would be served on

It's already hot IN the oven, so...

But how do you keep the mice out?

...and accumulates dirt, grease, and filth like a tiny little landfill.

Only for some models. Most are meant for storage

On some of the nicer ovens, those are broiler drawers

"tHiS iS oNLy TRue foR sOmE oVens/nOt iN mY COUntRy." Yes, obviously. If you don't have this type of oven then this doesn't apply to you. You don't ALWAYS have to comment when something doesn't apply specifically to you, FFS. If a post is about women's clothes and you don't wear women's clothes, you don't need to comment "but I don't wear women's clothes" or whatever.

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If you have a gas oven there's a good chance that's the broiler compartment.

Yeah, this one needs to go away. There are SOME ovens which have a warming drawer at the bottom, but most are simply for storage.

Liar!

I mean, seriously though....who DOESN'T store their pans there? I know that's not for storing pans but hey, if it fits, it sits.

Nope, it's just a drawer on my stove. I wish it was a food warmer, that would be so helpful.

Not all ovens are equipped with the "warming" drawer; it has to specifically made that way. My oven does NOT come with a warming drawer. Read your manual because all stoves are not created equally.

Depends on the model of your oven. Mine absolutely does not keep things warm

They embraced this reality with my double oven. The drawer beneath the ovens is actually not a part of the oven unit at all and it's significantly bigger than a warming drawer.

Who would put food there to keep warm when it is loaded with spiders and cockroaches?

Ovens can all be different. Check your manual to see what yours was intended for. Some are storage so e aren't

It's mine to do with as I wish.

I've never used it for anything but pans, oh and swearing at when I stub my toes on it

Pro tip: Don't remove a pan from the pan drawer with bare hands while the oven's on.

It doesn't get hot enough to keep foods warm.

Not so fast. My stove, my kitchen, my rules. The pans stay in the drawer.