Hi everyone,
I can't seem to figure out the difference between "roast" and "broil". The dictionaries give two similar definitions.
Can anyone explain please?
Thanks
This is a toaster oven broiler. You can put a steak in there and broil it with heat from the electric elements on top. (You'd flip the steak about halfway through.)
What would you call this in BrE?
My mother has one of those. She calls it her grill-oven. I don't know what she bought it as.
I have one as well, it's called a "Mini-Oven", (that's what it said on the box). I find it very useful when I need to oven cook two things at different temperatures.
My mother has one of those. She calls it her grill-oven. I don't know what she bought it as.
The great joy of these things is that you don't need a bigger kitchen.Now I'm feeling left out! If only I had a bigger kitchen. :-(
We don't tend to have a standalone piece of equipment that looks like that. What we have is a main oven in which various parts heat up to cook with the door closed. However, if we want to grill something, we leave the door open and switch it on so that only the element (electric or gas) in the roof/ceiling of the oven heats up. We then do the same as you, put the food under it, cook one side, flip it over and then cook the other.
It's called "a grill"! Very inventive, eh?
Yeah, except a "grill" is what we use to cook outdoors. With charcoal or propane. There are indoor grills as well. Like this:
I think the important feature of a "grill" is that it can leave grill marks on the food.
A toaster oven isn't that big. Sits on the counter. Maybe 2 feet wide.
We call that a barbecue.What do our British cousins call that thing on the back patio, that thing you put charcoal in (or use gas) to make a nice flame? (That's our grill.) The one that does leave the nice lines?
I've never had one of those. I'll buy yours from you,if you cover the cross-ocean shipping!