grilling with the oven door closed

Grilling with door shut makes it into an oven!

I can't grill with the oven door closed - the handle of the grill is in the way! (Wouldn't do it anyway)

It should tell you in your instruction book. My double oven has a grill in each,the small top oven is used with the door closed and the large fan oven door must be left open.

The handle clips off for the smaller grill

Sounds dangerous to me, that would make it an oven without a thermostat.

ALWAYS door open

Otherwise you are effectively oven cooking and burning the top at the same time!

And it's a fire risk

My oven instructions are to close the door when grilling. It's a Belling.

Yes, I expect it depends on the oven. My grillpan handle doesn't detach, although it's a double oven - but it's quite old!

Our NEFF oven has a sticker by the grill control saying to "always leave the door open when using the grill".

Yep my Bosch says you should leave door open when grilling..

Used to have an Aeg oven. You had to leave the door open when grilling and there was a metal baffle to protect the knobs. Now have a much cheaper Hotpoint oven and the instructions say to close the oven door when grilling. So I do. I also have a Panasonic microwave where the grill can be used on its own, obviously the door is closed when the grill is operational.
TBH I have not noticed any difference in grilling quality or time taken. I presume that the various grills are calibrated to allow for closed or open oven doors.

Always leave the door of my Neff ajar. On a previous oven the grill wouldn't work if the door was closed.

THANK YOU!! I feel most vindicated now, after their laughing

Annoyingly my grill pan doesn't have a handle. The instructions say "never have the door closed when the oven is set to grill" I always obey instructions

nina me too - who knows what could happen

I have a Miele oven which has a grill. The grill does not work if the door is open. It grills things quickly so you can't go off and leave it for long.

My oven AEG has 'door closed' instructions for grilling and if I don't the smoke alarms go off.

I have a french gas oven, very basic, burners in the base, with an electric grill. Strict instructions in the manual to have door completely open when using the grill.
So it seems to depend on the make of oven.

Ours is a Rangemaster and it came with strict and dire warnings against closing the door while grilling. I haven't a clue what would happen if I did, because I daren't

I have a small smart oven that sits on the worktop, from Lakeland.
It has a grill function and the door is supposed to be shut. I like it as it seems to keep the food more moist than if I use the grill on my main oven, which stipulates that the door should be open.

I must say I'd be happier with the grill door shut, though, when it's down at the same level as my DGS. Those eye level ones were that bit safer.

open! Our sil nearly set the whole house on fire with grilling bacon with door closed!

I have a Neff double oven and the instruction manual says to leave the top oven door closed when grilling. I've never used the main oven specifically for grilling, although it does have that function. It has a heating element in the top of the oven which I sometimes use to finish browning things but I always leave the door closed. Seems to be a wealth of conflicting information!

Yup, mine's a Neff and stipulates shutting grill door.
I usually leave it open, though, as that way I'm less likely to wander off and forget about it! Seems to work fine that way.