grilling with the oven door closed

I disagree that without a handle is safer! Mine have all had eye level grills with a permanent handle attached -no problem at all! When i have tried to grill at DiLs house aNd had to stoop with smoke in my eyes and use an oven glove I've found it very difficult. I wonder why built in high ovens with eye level grills (so much easier) seem to have been phased out? My DiLs have to bend down to look in the oven as did my mother! How is this progress?

Always open

My (crap) Zanussi says grill with door open, but I always shut it as otherwise the smoke alarm (in next room!) goes off - and nothing is burning!!(honest!)

My grill MUST have the door open when in use, even states this on the cooker.

Mine, a gas grill, turns off if you shut the door.

My present oven & previous one are/were fan so door has to be closed. As for handles for grill pan I never use them even if they are supplied I much prefer good oven gloves or mitts much safer.

Mine has to have it closed, I don't like it so I never grill.

My grill won't function with the door closed. Sometimes I close it, out of habit, because it's also the small oven. Always disappointed to find nothing has been grilled!

I have a Rangemaster too. Mine has a separate grill, with instructions to leave the door open. As well as a multi-functional oven with a different fan grill setting. This one says to grill with the door closed.

Canon gas cooker; double oven; grill in top oven; instructions say leave door open

I imagine the risk of closing the door is that there is a (very) slight risk that the food may catch alight, or (in my case) one might forget it's there!

pollyperkins Mine is the same.

Mine is an eye level grill (much easier though seemingly going out of fashion. There is a handle to grill pan and instructions say always leave door open when grilling , so I do! It doubles as a small top oven in which case of course i close the door.

I have never shut the door as the food would burn. Out of sight out of mind !

Always follow the manufacturer's instructions. In particular Bosch Neff and Siemens have closed door grilling which is essential. I was a Home Economist in the Home Appliance industry for over thirty years working for a number of manufacturers including those mentioned (three brands one company). Preheating the grill can often be important too. As we used to say...RTFM! I'll leave you to work that out.

My eye level oven is a Bosch and instructions are keep door closed while grilling and when oven is cooling after being turned off.

My grill won't work if the door is closed. Having previously been used to an efficient eye level grill I found that out the hard way when we moved to this house with its built in oven and no instruction book.

My mother recently shut the top oven door when grilling and there was an explosion of sorts - the glass door shattered and hot fat sprayed all over the floor. Luckily no one was in range at the time. I suspect, though, that if she had been nearby she would have noticed that something was going wrong before it got to that stage.

Always with the door open...I've never thought about closing the door as I would have to attach and remove the grill handle every time I wanted to check on the food being grilled.

My oven, which is fairly new, stipulates you must close the door when grilling. I hate doing this as I like to keep an eye on what I'm cooking.

In my last house I had a STOVES cooker. To use the top oven as a grill you had to turn the control to 'grill' and leave the door open. One day I forgot and closed it.... the glass inner door shattered and because it was an older model could not be replaced. Lesson learned

My Bosch double oven instructions says doors shut when grilling. It toasts bread very fast, so I have to watch it. The universal pan used for grilling doesn't have handles.

I also have a Neff and have great difficulty with the controls even after reading all the instructions .... but it definitely says to keep the grill door shut while grilling.

My Electrolux oven says the door must be closed when grilling which creates a lot of steam when grilling certain foods. Re handles, mine came without and when I enquired in a kitchen shop I was told this was due to health and safety!! He then sold me one for £20!

Instructions for mine say closed. Doesn't work otherwise.

My oven has two grill functions. The fan grill must have the door shut but the plain grill has to have the door open. Must admit I preferred the old eye level grill from the 70s/80s. Toast was next best thing to toasting on the fire.